Re: [Qgis-user] qgis geopole wms server search

2015-06-14 Thread ralfwessels
Hi, yes the whole geopole service seems to be down - even the main website http://www.geopole.org/ doesn't show up correct. Does someone know an good alternative searchmachine for global web services? In germany I normaly use http://www.geoinfomarkt.org/ which is pretty good, but just for german

[Qgis-user] TAB mapinfo file : editing ?

2015-06-14 Thread image93
Dear all, Up to now, I have worked with mapinfo and tab files. Is there a way to edit mapinfo (reading and writing) file with qgis ? Mitab seems to be a library : http://mitab.maptools.org/ But i did not understand the aim of this library. Thank you to throw light for me. -- View

Re: [Qgis-user] TAB mapinfo file : editing ?

2015-06-14 Thread image93
Thank you for your ligthing. Indeed, i found the gdal 2.0 roadmap : https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/roadmap Waiting for the official and stable gdal 2.0 release, it would be possible to test qgis with gdal 2.0 (and TAB editing)via the osgeo4w installer (advanced install) ? Thanks. -- View

Re: [Qgis-user] TAB mapinfo file : editing ?

2015-06-14 Thread Nyall Dawson
On 15 Jun 2015 04:44, image93 lcel...@cci-paris-idf.fr wrote: Dear all, Up to now, I have worked with mapinfo and tab files. Is there a way to edit mapinfo (reading and writing) file with qgis ? This will be possible in QGIS after GDAL 2.0 is released - it's not far off! See

[Qgis-user] Issue installing QGIS 2.8 64 bit on Windows 8.1 - it defaulted to the administrative user

2015-06-14 Thread Peter Cooper
I have 64 bit windows 8.1, and 2 users – an administrative user and a non-administrative one. As I normally do for installations, I used the non-administrative user to download and install the QGIS Standalone installer version 2.8 64 bit. It seemed to install OK except that it was installed

[Qgis-user] qgis atlas : How to set the scale bar (variable scales)

2015-06-14 Thread image93
Hello, I succeed in generating atlas thanks to an input cover polygon layer (=variable scale). But how to set the scale bar ? Setting a variable scale has worked nicely for me on overview maps (from a input cover layer) but not for scale bars yet. Should i enable the option called predefined