Re: [Qgis-user] Date formula in Layout label

in these dialogs, double-quating is for variable (column) names, single quoting for strings (like most expression builders and eg. also in SQL)... ...and you are correct, this is not stated in any obvious place, that should be made more clear! -- Barend Köbben On 11/06/2019, 13:08,

Re: [Qgis-user] [Print composer SVG export] impossible to open SVG file in illustrator

Found the same thing. Seems that the option "export RDF metadata" should be off to get usable SVG. In my case this is fine, but if you need RDF data that is a problem... yours, -- Barend Köbben On 09/05/2019, 16:03, "Qgis-user on behalf of Sami Charifi"

Re: [Qgis-user] Import of Large CSV File

simple test is also to check if the file can be imported in Excel or OpenOffice spreadsheet... -- Barend Köbben On 16/04/2019, 14:11, "Qgis-user on behalf of Nicolas Cadieux" mailto:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of

Re: [Qgis-user] Plugin Reloader plugin making trouble

He Yoann and the Plugin Reloader author Thanks for finding that. I can confirm it was the same problem in my case. Also tested and found that renaming the folder the plugin files are in (in my case from to folder_ ) solves the problem just as well. I do consider this a workaround to what

[Qgis-user] Plugin Reloader plugin making trouble

Hi all, as a follow-up to my earlier question (below), I have now embarked on the slow (but fun!) process of learning how to create a Python Processing Plugin. I have successfully build a skeleton one using the Plugin Builder, managed to get my PyCharm IDE to work with the qgis.core library

Re: [Qgis-user] status of FlowMapper Plugin by cempro

Yeah, that would certainly be my fallback in case no alternatives are there (or the author reacts). Maybe even use it as an excuse to learn programming QGIS plugins ;-) Thanks for the advice. -- Barend Köbben On 13/03/2019, 15:59, "Qgis-user on behalf of Paolo Cavallini"

[Qgis-user] status of FlowMapper Plugin by cempro

Hi all, Many of my students used the FlowMapper plugin to create flowmaps from Origin-Destination data. Unfortunately development has stopped in may 2016 and therefore a GQIS 3.x compatible version never came. From the plugins page at https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/FlowMapper/ and the github

Re: [Qgis-user] Error saving/exporting data with many attributes

Thanks for the info Patrick. I totally agree this is unwise, but the OSM (OpenStreetMap) dataset I am working with unfortunately comes with some of these (unwisely chosen) attribute tags :-( So indeed inconsistency in how that 's handled is annoying. In defence of QGIS programmers, I think it's

Re: [Qgis-user] Error saving/exporting data with many attributes

To answer my own question: the problem is actually not the amount of attributes, but the fact that there are (2x) attributes columns with the same name (although they are different if you consider case sensitivity). Apparently GeoJSON is the only format that allows differentiating column names

[Qgis-user] Error saving/exporting data with many attributes

Hi all, I have a problem that (I think) comes down to a limit in the amount of attributes per object the QGIS exporting tools can handle. Case in hand: 1) Import OSM data Points with many attributes (OSM tags), using QuickOSM – works 2) Temporary layer in QGIS is displayed - seems fine 3)

Re: [Qgis-user] North arrow in QGIS

+1 -- Barend Köbben On 13/02/2019, 10:03, "Qgis-user on behalf of Benjamin Ducke" mailto:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of bendu...@fastmail.fm> wrote: Hi, On 13/02/2019 09:30, Micha Silver wrote: On 2/13/19 9:41 AM, Frank Sokolic wrote: Hi, I

[Qgis-user] 3.4.2: file dialogs freeze for several seconds (Mac Mojave)

Hi all, Since updating to 3.4.2 (from 3.4.1, details below*) whenever QGIS uses my systems (MacOS) file dialogs I experience freezes of up to several seconds: the whole QGIS software stops doing anything and does not react. Until now it always recovers, gets back to normal, but it makes using

Re: [Qgis-user] Authentication Manager errors for ArcGIS Image Server

Yep, that surely look like the same thing. I’ll await the 3.4.2 release and test that later. Thanks for finding out! -- Barend Köbben On 22/11/2018, 15:28, "Saber Razmjooei" mailto:saber.razmjo...@lutraconsulting.co.uk>> wrote: Maybe related to this:

Re: [Qgis-user] Authentication Manager errors for ArcGIS Image Server

I do know that, but would that make any difference? In other words, is this a known issue that has been solved by either 3.4.1 in general or in your specific MacOS packaging in particular...? -- Barend Köbben On 22/11/2018, 11:11, "Saber Razmjooei"

[Qgis-user] Authentication Manager errors for ArcGIS Image Server

Hi all, I have problems with the Authentication Manager for an ArcGIS Image Server layer. It’s the arcgisonline World Imagery, for which I have an institutional account with a UN/PW. When defining this account it all works, and after that most of the time I do get the imagery, but

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 3.2.3 on MacOSX also fails all GDAL

This solved my problem, thanks. -- Barend Köbben On 28/09/2018, 19:53, "DT" mailto:dmo...@gmail.com>> wrote: This might be an issue with not having the proper paths in QGIS settings. Have you followed this section from the install readme? External Program Paths QGIS 3 does not find

[Qgis-user] QGIS 3.2.3 on MacOSX also fails all GDAL

It’s getting worse, now all my GDAL commands down’t waork anymore: “GDAL command output: /bin/sh: gdal_merge.py: command not found” But when I type “gdal_merge.py” in my terminal, it works fine... -- Barend Köbben On 28/09/2018, 16:42, "Qgis-user on behalf of

[Qgis-user] QGIS 3.2.3 on MacOSX unstable, have to re-install

Anyone else has the problem of QGIS 3.2.3 on MacOSX (10.13.6) becoming unstable regularly.? It’s worse than plain unstable, it does not want to start at all anymore (MacOS message ”QGIS quit unexpectedly”). The only thing that remedies this is re-installing, or throwing the whole QGIS

[Qgis-user] Problems opening sqlite files in 3.2.2 through Spatialite connection.

Hi all, In QGIS 3.2.2, when trying to open the NaturalEarthData .sqlite file from the file-browser or by right-clicking in the Finder (Mac OSX ) it works fine. But through Add Layer > Add spatialite layer, using Connect to the same file I get an error : Failure getting table metadata... is

Re: [Qgis-user] Retrieving map from a WMS using HTTPS

Never had problems with that, always use it, e.g.: https://geoserver.itc.nl/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=D:/Inetpub/mapserver/config.map=WMS=1.3.0=GetMap=forest,railroad,airports=EPSG:4326=5.61,97.35,20.47,105.64=400=600=image/png -- Barend Köbben On 25/07/2018, 10:09, "Qgis-user on behalf of

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS & CityGML?

Reading CityGML is possible, it is after all well-behaved GML. Using GDAL or better using the tudelft.nl tools mentioned by Tobias to convert it to a PostGIS database. And visualising it then is probably also OK, but only in 2D, not the way I suspect you’d want to, i.e. in a 3D-viewing

Re: [Qgis-user] Pseudo Mercator(OSM) @ EPSG:4326 bug?

You can use a browser to request data from the tileserver, but let me assure you that the OSM tileserver you are using (https://a.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png) for sure only supports 3857 (or its quasi-alias 900913), so

Re: [Qgis-user] spatial-temporal data vizualization

Crayfish looks very promising, but is unfortunately not supported on my platform (MacOSX) :-(( -- Barend Köbben On 23/10/2017, 20:06, "Qgis-user on behalf of Luigi Pirelli" wrote: probably

Re: [Qgis-user] How to copy styles between different geometry types? [Marketing Mail]

A trick, or more a hack, would be to export the style to SLD, and then use a text editor to change the appropriate SLD polygon parts to line parts, eg: #816a45 0.07 #cddbe7 would become to

Re: [Qgis-user] User

I am Groot... On 20/04/2017, 09:25, "Qgis-user on behalf of herath kumara" wrote: I am QGIS user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info:

Re: [Qgis-user] Real Mask functionality in QGIS?

Although QGIS has no convenient mask utility, the underlying logic (that ArcGIS uses too) is of course standard geo-processing: Create the mask geometry, use it as an overlay to "cut away" the masked areas from your layers-to-be-processed and then do you processes on those geometries... --

[Qgis-user] setting style units project or application-wide

Hi all, I know how to set the units of styles (e.g. from millimetres to pixels) per style, but is there a way to set this as a project- or application-wide default? Yours, -- Barend Köbben Senior Lecturer – ITC-University of Twente PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands) ITC Building (room

Re: [Qgis-user] shapefile of Europe

And of course NaturalEarthData is always your friend here: www.naturalearthdata.com -- Barend Köbben Senior Lecturer – ITC-University of Twente PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands) ITC Building (room 1-065) @barendkobben +31-(0)53 4874 253 On 01/02/17 17:07, "Qgis-user on behalf of

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS releases announced too early IMHO

I agree, but why not wait with the "official" release message until after KyngChaos has done his (excellent, can't thank him enough) job? Barend On 02/03/16 13:33, "Nathan Woodrow" > wrote: Hi, It would be ideal however packages are

[Qgis-user] QGIS releases announced too early IMHO

Hi Nathan, You state that "There is no "official" release until the banner is changed on qgis.org and announcement is made on the mailing lists/twitter, etc.". Well, that has happened now, but the KyngChaos site for Mac OSX still has 2.12. That is NOT a negative comment on

Re: [Qgis-user] why no SLD export for rasters?

Hello Alejandro, Yes I did, and it mostly works (although I encountered some problems exporting Stretched grayband images). But My question was meant to be: Why is this a plugin, and not in the core functionality (as the vector SLD export is)...? Barend On 19/02/16 15:26, "Alejandro Chamizo

[Qgis-user] why no SLD export for rasters?

Why is their no possibility to export raster styles as SLD (which works fine for vector maps)...? -- Barend Köbben Senior Lecturer ­ ITC-University of Twente PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands) @barendkobben ___ Qgis-user mailing list

[Qgis-user] heads-up on QGIS 2.12 installation on Mac OSX :PROJ framework not in GDAL-complete?

Hi all, I had a problem installing the KyngChaos-packaged QGIS 2.12.0-1. After installation the program did not start up, the error seemed to be in PROJ4: Dyld Error Message: Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/PROJ.framework/Versions/4/PROJ Referenced from:

Re: [Qgis-user] Thanks for packaging Mac OS-X QGIS 2.12

I can't agree more! I actually nominated KyngChaos for the OSGEO Sol Katz award [1] in 2013 (he did not win, maybe we should try again in 2016...? Barend [1] - http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award On 30/10/15 01:48, "Greg P" wrote: >Many thanks to William Kyngesburye!

Re: [Qgis-user] Colour ramps - raster file extreme values

My bad, I think I confuse it with another software or with a plugin. I have very limited internet access at the moment so cantt look into it fro you, sorry... Barend On 24-08-15 07:51, Lester Anderson arctica1...@gmail.commailto:arctica1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, There is no histogram

Re: [Qgis-user] Colour ramps - raster file extreme values

Look into histogram stretch, this stretches colour values based on frequency. Barend -- Barend Köbben Senior Lecturer - ITC-University of Twente PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands) @barendkobben http://www.itc.nl/geoinformatics On 21-08-15 17:48, Lester Anderson

Re: [Qgis-user] qgis and grass7

Hi Radim, Which of the two (if any) does allow Grass7 to be used in the processing toolbox...? -- Barend Köbben Senior Lecturer ­ ITC-University of Twente PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands) @barendkobben http://www.itc.nl/geoinformatics On 02-07-15 09:04, Radim Blazek

Re: [Qgis-user] transformation

Hi Goran, The reason is (almost certainly) the fact that the two CRSs (coordinate reference system)s use a different Datum, which I suppose is the case, because in the Proj4 description you provide they have a different ellipsoid (The Bessel ellipsoid versus GRS80). Unfortunately, for the

Re: [Qgis-user] More colors in Color ramp?

you could really use some Cartography 101... How do you expect your mapreaders to make sense of a map with 200 different colours? -- Barend Köbben ITC - University of Twente PO Box 217, 7500AE Enschede (The Netherlands) +31-(0)53 4874 253 @barendkobben On 13-12-13 19:32, Etienne Tourigny

Re: [Qgis-user] Difference: EPSG 3004 - EPSG 102092

FWIW, the two definitions (EPSG 3004 EPSG 102092) are NOT the same. They do have the same projection parameters, but one has datum shift parameters too (+towgs84=-104.1,-49.1,-9.9,0.971,-2.917,0.714,-11.68) that the other is lacking. That means that when you use the one in re-projecting data, it

Re: [Qgis-user] Difference: EPSG 3004 - EPSG 102092

As an added note: be aware that 102092 is NOT an actual EPSG code. EPSG codes with no's 32768 are not in the official EPSG database, and are in actual fact therefore not EPSG codes really. It's just that many softwares allow for the creation of user defined Spatial Reference Systems, and to make

Re: [Qgis-user] Plugin path on Mac

On my Mac using QGIS 2 it's /Users/kobben/.qgis2/python/plugins Where kobben is my user name... -- Barend Köbben ITC - University of Twente PO Box 217, 7500AE Enschede (The Netherlands) +31-(0)53 4874 253 @barendkobben On 07-11-13 08:17, Lee Hachadoorian lee.hachadooria...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Qgis-user] How to display a scale bar in km on a map in degrees?

Dear Carlos, I understand that you think the combination is useful, but my point is actually that the scale bar is NOT useful because it is plain wrong, it does not even approximate distances in many places in the map! Try wrapping you head around the fact that the North Pole (a single point of

Re: [Qgis-user] convert UTM_UPS data from gps to decimal degrees

Latitude-longitude coordinates with minutes (') or seconds () higher then 60 is not just unusual, as giovanni calls it, they're plain impossible. So that suggest your data is corrupted, I suggest you go back to the source and find out what has happened along the way... -- Barend Köbben (Senior

Re: [Qgis-user] Rotated pole projection: Netcdf

As an added comment: trying to see map poles in WGS 84 is going to be difficult: in WGS84 projection where latlons are treated as cartesian coordinates, a pole (a point) is depicted as a line, making distortions enormous... Barend On 15-02-13 17:06, Etienne Tourigny etourigny@gmail.com

Re: [Qgis-user] Mercator projection that shrinks toward pole

Well, if it's shrinking towards the poles, it basically is not a Mercator projection (at least not the traditional normal Mercator where the cylinder is wrapped around the Equator)... Which nautical chart viewer did you see this in...? -- Barend Köbben Senior Lecturer, ITC - University of

Re: [Qgis-user] Mercator projection that shrinks toward pole

...@hotmail.com wrote: hi, b.j.kobben Well, if it's shrinking towards the poles, it basically is not a Mercator projection (at least not the traditional normal Mercator where the cylinder is wrapped around the Equator)... It shrinks in a way that the whole canvas is scaled down. Considering the Mercator