[Qgis-user] best practice for reducing size of spatial objects

2015-12-04 Thread Ken Walenga
What is the best way to reduce the number of points a spatial object contains, thereby reducting its size and footprint at run time when displaying the object? The problem I am running into is that we start with a set of zipcode objects for the US and map/merge our custom territories with it, endin

[Qgis-user] Saga dll error

2015-10-23 Thread Ken Walenga
I'm trying to remove gaps and run the polygon dissolve by attribute plug-ins and receive the following error messages: ERROR 1: Can't load requested DLL: C:\PROGRA~1\QGISPI~1\apps\saga\dll\gdal_MrSID.dll 127: The specified procedure could not be found. What's up? On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:5

[Qgis-user] Encoded polyline export - bad file generated

2015-10-08 Thread Ken Walenga
I have used the SAGA plugin DISSOLVE plug-in to create custom territory boundary files. It creates the resultant dissolved shape file extremely quickly - can't tell you how much I love that. However, I am finding that when I use the Encoded Polyline builder tool to export the shape file to a .csv,

Re: [Qgis-user] Qgis-user Digest, Vol 115, Issue 36

2015-09-15 Thread Ken Walenga
I am trying to create custom TERRITORY boundary/shape files and having a lot of problems. Due to the size of my joined .csv file which contains the ZIP2TERRITORY information to a base Zip.shp file, I am setting a filter by territory# to limit the records that I have to submit for dissolving boundar

Re: [Qgis-user] Incredibly slow performance using QGIS v2.10

2015-08-30 Thread Ken Walenga
in using one of the two named databases? Do I simply need to read the .csv file into Spatiallite or Postgres? > > Keep in mind, that an operation like this is single threaded. > > Thanks, > Alex > > On 08/30/2015 09:53 AM, Ken Walenga wrote: > > Looking for help. I hav

[Qgis-user] Incredibly slow performance using QGIS v2.10

2015-08-30 Thread Ken Walenga
Looking for help. I have an unsimplified ZIP.shp file and want to create my own custom boundary files for territories which are a collection of zip code areas. I bring in the Zip.shp file and join to a Zip2Terr.csv file on the Zip field. When I try to dissolve the TERR_NBR field, the dissolve proc