Re: [Qgis-user] Couldn't load SIP module

2020-11-04 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Mike, This Python error on the Flatpak version of QGIS (I'm using Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla) was preventing me from using the Processing Toolbox so I had to ditch QGIS flatpak. I couldn't get QGIS 3.16 working either as there wasn't/isn't a repository available for Groovy and I kept on

Re: [Qgis-user] Couldn't load SIP module

2020-10-30 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Mike, I can confirm the same problem. I am using the Flatpak version of QGIS 3.14 on Ubuntu 20.10. Regards, Frank. On 2020/10/29 22:40, Mike Flannigan wrote: I have been using QGIS a lot recently.  All of a sudden it gives "Couldn't load SIP module", which is a Python problem with QGIS

Re: [Qgis-user] no package for ubuntu groovy gorilla

2020-10-27 Thread Frank Sokolic
re what to do except wait until packages are available for groovy. Regards, Frank. On 2020/10/26 16:03, Fernando M. Roxo da Motta wrote: On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:19:01 +0200, Frank Sokolic wrote: Hi Reginald, I've got the same problem and had to boot into Windows to continue using QGIS this m

Re: [Qgis-user] no package for ubuntu groovy gorilla

2020-10-26 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Reginald, I've got the same problem and had to boot into Windows to continue using QGIS this morning. I had QGIS 3.16 installed on Ubuntu and it was removed during the upgrade to Groovy. Regards, Frank. On 2020/10/26 13:29, Reginald wrote: Hi, I have recently upgraded to ubuntu 20.10

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 3.14.15 on Ubuntu

2020-09-05 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Nick, I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 with the repository "https://qgis.org/debian focal main" and version 3.14.15 of QGIS is installed. Not sure if you being on Ubuntu 18.04 is the issue. Frank. On 2020/09/05 12:25, Nick Hopton wrote: Every time I start QGIS 3.14 it tells me that a new version

Re: [Qgis-user] Show image time with Temporal Controller

2020-08-03 Thread Frank Sokolic
ou Le lun. 3 août 2020 à 13:58, Frank Sokolic <mailto:soko...@worldonline.co.za>> a écrit : Hi Charles, The images are being loaded from a WMS-T service and so don't have attributes. Is there any way of using an expression to get details of the current image from the

Re: [Qgis-user] Show image time with Temporal Controller

2020-08-03 Thread Frank Sokolic
Le lun. 3 août 2020 à 13:58, Frank Sokolic <mailto:soko...@worldonline.co.za>> a écrit : Hi Charles, The images are being loaded from a WMS-T service and so don't have attributes. Is there any way of using an expression to get details of the current image from the

Re: [Qgis-user] Show image time with Temporal Controller

2020-08-03 Thread Frank Sokolic
/08/03 13:14, Charles Dixon-Paver wrote: Hi Frank, I haven't tested this, but wouldn't you be able to get this from the layer attributes that are configured in the temporal controller settings? On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 at 13:07, Frank Sokolic <mailto:soko...@worldonline.co.za>> wrote:

[Qgis-user] Show image time with Temporal Controller

2020-08-03 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi, I'm using the QGIS 3.14 Temporal Controller to step through a series of satellite images in 15 minute intervals and would like to show the date/time of each image as it appears on the map. There are variables for the start and end animation times (animation_start_time,

Re: [Qgis-user] North arrow in QGIS

2019-02-12 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi, I think from a user point of view the north arrow is not considered to be an image so having a separate north-arrow item makes good sense. I find the current method of adding a north arrow confusing as it requires the user  to know the following: (a) North arrows are not added by

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Crashes on attempts to edit attribute table

2018-03-02 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Will, You could try opening a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and running QGIS by typing in 'QGIS'. Then try editing a table and when/if QGIS crashes see if any meaningful message is shown in the terminal. This might provide a clue as to what's causing the crash. Frank. On 02/03/2018 19:28,

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Overview Panel... is it used by anybody?

2017-10-13 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Richard, When I run QGIS courses I always teach students how to use the Overview Panel. Whether they ever use it after completing the course I don't know. Frank. - Original Message - From: "Richard Duivenvoorde" To: Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Friday, 13

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS logo material & visual style guide

2017-03-26 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Anita, Can we start using the new logo immediately or should we wait until QGIS 3.0 is released? Regards, Frank From: "Anita Graser" To: "qgis-user" Sent: Saturday, 25 March, 2017 22:52:08 Subject: [Qgis-user] QGIS logo material &

Re: [Qgis-user] Clip tool no longer supports selections in 2.16?

2016-10-04 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Erik, This is similar to a problem with the Intersect tool which was reported recently: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/15584 I remember experiencing the same problem with the clip tool in 2.16 but this has since been fixed in QGIS Master. Frank. On 03/10/2016 22:48, Erik wrote: Hi Anita,

[Qgis-user] Clip tool regression

2016-07-25 Thread Frank Sokolic
Dear list members, There appears to be a regression in the clip tool accessible from the Vector > Geoprocessing Tools menu. In the past, the ftools version of the clip tool applied the clip operation to selected features only (if features were selected). This is no longer the case and the

Re: [Qgis-user] View menu items missing on Master

2015-10-14 Thread Frank Sokolic
at the "Settings" menu - these UI items are in the settings menu on Linux. Andreas On 14.10.2015 19:41, Frank Sokolic wrote: Hi all, I'm using QGIS Master on Ubuntu 15.04 64 bit and the following three items are missing from the View menu: Panels Toolbars Toggle Full S

[Qgis-user] View menu items missing on Master

2015-10-14 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi all, I'm using QGIS Master on Ubuntu 15.04 64 bit and the following three items are missing from the View menu: Panels Toolbars Toggle Full Screen Mode Is this an intended change or is it a bug? Regards, Frank. ___ Qgis-user mailing list

Re: [Qgis-user] OSGeo4W's QGIS Web Server install problem. “Not Found ... qgis_mapserv.fcgi”

2015-05-09 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Dennis, Did you actually rename qgis_mapserver.fgci.exe to remove the .exe extension? If not, try this as it worked for me. Regards, Frank. On 08/05/2015 21:16, dennis mckay wrote: I have been spending days trying to start the “Apache OSGeo4W Web Server” on a Win7 Professional SP 1. I

Re: [Qgis-user] Format GETFEATUREINFO request from QGISwebserver

2015-03-20 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Carles, Have you tried experimenting with the map tip display tip in QGIS? In QGIS go to the layer properties, select Display and then enable HTML. You can then add html code to display the attribute values which should affect the format of your GetFeatureInfo request. Frank. On

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS not running

2014-11-24 Thread Frank Sokolic
On 25/11/2014 06:21, Bernardo Santos wrote: Dear all, I do not know why, but my QGIS is not running. I am using QGIS 2.4 Chugiak on Ubuntu 13.04. When I try to run QGIS, it returns a very long message that ends with: src/core/qgsmessagelog.cpp: 45: (logMessage) 2014-11-25T02:18:02

Re: [Qgis-user] Making border lines disappear

2014-07-30 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Jonathan, I've been struggling with this too. Even if you set Border Width to zero the borders are faintly visible. I hack I've used occasionally is to dissolve the polygons using whatever attribute you're categorising by but this is a far from ideal solution. Frank. From:

[Qgis-user] AniMove plugin not working?

2014-06-19 Thread Frank Sokolic
Dear List, Is anyone else having trouble with the AniMove plugin? I've got version AniMove 1.4.0 installed on two different machines (Ubunty 14.04 / 2.3.0-Master and Windows 7 / QGIS 2.2.0) and can't find the AniMove icon on any of the toolbars or in any of the menus. This plugin used to work

Re: [Qgis-user] AniMove plugin not working?

2014-06-19 Thread Frank Sokolic
:39:32 PM To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Cc: Subject: RE: Re: [Qgis-user] AniMove plugin not working? Il 19/06/2014 12:05, Frank Sokolic ha scritto: Dear List, Is anyone else having trouble with the AniMove plugin? I've got version AniMove 1.4.0 installed on two different machines (Ubunty

Re: [Qgis-user] Newbie - QGIS won't recongize shp files, comp turns shp files into pdfs

2014-01-05 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Matt, Are you using the Add Vector Layer command to open the shapefiles? If not, go to the Layer menu and select the Add Vector Layer command. You can then choose Browse to look for the shapefile you want to load. Regards, Frank. On 06/01/2014 06:57, Matt_Klick wrote: No luck on this

Re: [Qgis-user] Call for fixes: French and South Africans, raise up

2013-08-26 Thread Frank Sokolic
On 26/08/2013 09:10, Paolo Cavallini wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. Of the few blockers left, two are of exclusive interest of local communities: * http://hub.qgis.org/issues/7941 for France * http://hub.qgis.org/issues/8487 for South Africa This is the last

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Community Meeting feedback for Essen, October 2012

2012-10-16 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Otto, Would it be possible to put some names to the faces in the photograph? Would be nice to see what people look like :-) Regards, Frank, From: das...@gbd-consult.de Sent:2012-10-16 16:06:48 To:

Re: [Qgis-user] it's posible to select units for scale bar?

2012-09-21 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Aitor, You'll have to enable 'on the fly' transformation in the Project Properties and then choose a CRS that projects everything to a metres-based CRS, e.g. UTM. Once you've done this the scale bar in your composer will be in metres. By the way, the ArcGIS scale bar you mention isn't

Re: [Qgis-user] v1.8 project properties ubuntu

2012-07-06 Thread Frank Sokolic
On 06/07/2012 14:54, Michael Spencer wrote: Daft question (hopefully): in QGIS v1.8 where has the project properties dialogue gone? This used to be under settings and allowed one to change the project CRS (amongst other things). Cheers, Michael Hi Michael, You can access the project

Re: Re: [Qgis-user] feature or bug

2012-03-06 Thread Frank Sokolic
Have you tried using the Sort option in the mmqgis plugin? I think that this will save your sort permanently. Frank. From: tech_...@wildintellect.com Sent:2012-03-06 19:33:05 To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Cc: Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] feature or bug On 03/06/2012 09:05 AM, M.E.Dodd

Re: [Qgis-user] ArcGIS 10 and QGIS 1.7

2011-08-25 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Christine, I recently had a problem on Windows XP when I uninstalled 1.7, installed and uninstalled 1.6, and then installed QGIS 1.7 again. QGIS 1.7 kept on crashing and I eventually traced the problem to Trolltech keys in the registry. After removing Trolltech from the registry and then

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 1.7 Does not load after installation

2011-08-09 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Nome, Have you tried installing QGIS with administrator rights? Right-click on the installation file and select 'run as administrator'. Install the program that way and see if it solves your problem. Another thing you can try: I once had a problem where QGIS wouldn't load and eventually

Re: [Qgis-user] change CRS of layer

2011-07-31 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi Walter, In QGIS 1.6 you can set the layer CRS in the layer properties. Open the layer properties and go to the General tab - you will see a button labelled 'Specify CRS'. If your layer already has a CRS specified and you want to save it to another CRS: right-click on the layer name and

[Qgis-user] nircmd flagged as a virus

2011-06-05 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi all, When using the Windows installer for QGIS 1.6 the shortcuts that are generated use nircmd.exe to execute a batch file called qgis.bat, which in turn loads and runs QGIS. However, I've noticed that some Windows anti-virus programs flag nircmd.exe as a virus and prevent the QGIS

[Qgis-user] Creating attributes for New Vector Layers

2011-05-20 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi all, When creating attributes for new vector layers the Type drop-down list shows three options: Text data, Whole number, Decimal number. However, the attributes list displays these as String, Integer and Real. I have found that new users of QGIS find this slightly confusing. Could I offer

Re: [Qgis-user] how to display polygons from qgis in google earth?

2011-05-10 Thread Frank Sokolic
Hi, You do this from within QGIS: right-click on the layer name in the Table of Contents and choose the 'Save as' option. Then specify the format as 'Keyhole Markup Language' and the CRS as wgs84. Frank. On 2011/05/10 10:19, M.E.Dodd wrote: Polygons created in qgis in osgb 1936 but want to

Re: [Qgis-user] Plotting XY data in QGIS

2011-04-19 Thread Frank Sokolic
On 19/04/2011 18:27, Jim Ivie wrote: I am having trouble plotting XY data from an Access database table in QGIS 1.6. Is there a reference for this anywhere? Jim Ivie Hi Jim, You can export the table from Access as a csv text file. Then you can use the QGIS delimited text plugin to import

Re: [Qgis-user] layer from delimited text file

2010-07-23 Thread Frank Sokolic
On 2010/07/23 12:10, Julio Cesar Canales DElgadillo wrote: Hello everybody, I'm trying to create a points layer from a *.csv file into Qgis 1.4, however the application says that my file is not valid and that cannot be loaded. I already checked the format of X and Y cells (as numbers) but it

[Qgis-user] Using QGIS for training courses

2009-07-02 Thread Frank Sokolic
For many years I have given training in GIS using proprietary software (mainly ArcGIS) but for a course I co-presented last week I decided to try FOSS GIS software instead. This was not only because we wanted a GIS that was intuitive and easy to learn but also because we wanted to give