Re: [Qgis-user] convex and dissolve doesnt work

2017-03-26 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Try the ones from GRASS. They with better for me than QGIS' internals. -- Von einem iPhone gesendet und wird daher Fehler enthalten… Am 26.03.2017 um 19:06 schrieb Boaz Bar Ilan : > hi > > all the tools of geoprocessing tool are working ok except convex and > dissolve.

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

2017-03-30 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi Anita, I just was about to print the new logo on a bag and realized another bug: The SVG provided is NOT the one seen on the PNG picture! The "3D effect" is missing. My 2 cents: Actually, such pseudo 3D logos aren't modern anymore. All of the big corporations (f.e. Microsoft, Google,

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

2017-03-30 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi Anita, I've just created a fixed logo with generic SVG code. I've tested it in the common browsers, Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDraw (trial) and Inkscape. It works for me, also the W3-validator and my printers like it. Also, I've tried to optimize as good as I can:

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

2017-03-30 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Some more revisions. That's how it looks with straight gradients. No notice-able change, but way cleaner code: https://gist.github.com/tobwen/c07fa2458499c180a3e0585e5d70d802 And that's the flat version with straight gradients: https://gist.github.com/tobwen/cd744ea324ff992a27aad7efd958212c

Re: [Qgis-user] ShapeTools XY to Line

2017-03-22 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Mi, 22.03.2017, 15:29 schrieb C Hamilton: > Thank you for that suggestion. I am now using the geographiclib > routines in Shape Tools' XY to Line routine that was released today. > I am still including Great Circle as an option and if you zoom in > you can see the differences. Good work.

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

2017-03-25 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi Anita, Am Sa, 25.03.2017, 21:52 schrieb Anita Graser: > All new logo materials are now published in a handy visual style guide > that provides images and color codes for you to use: > http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/styleguide.html Uh... 3.7% key black and 0.86% key black. That's below

Re: [Qgis-user] Alternative labels on each iteration?

2017-03-17 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi Régis! Am Fr, 17.03.2017, 17:50 schrieb Régis Haubourg : > Label collision is using quite complicated algorithm, this is a > truely complex work. Yeah, I've went through this for a long time in Mapnik ;) Have spent lot of ideas and time on this project. > There is currently some work planned

Re: [Qgis-user] Alternative labels on each iteration?

2017-03-17 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Fr, 17.03.2017, 10:58 schrieb Neumann, Andreas: > Some devs like cartography and also work on smaller improvements > without being paid. No guarantees of course ... Okay, I think it would be best to have "alternative labeling" as an external Python function. Python is way easier to edit for

Re: [Qgis-user] Alternative labels on each iteration?

2017-03-17 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Fr, 17.03.2017, 21:37 schrieb Régis Haubourg: > I can't agree more here, QGIS is already really powerful. And.. Waaaiit ... I didn't mean cartography in QGIS is bad or not useful. It's not useful for the corporations, I've worked with, since they need to power, ArcGIS gives them. One of the

Re: [Qgis-user] Alternative labels on each iteration?

2017-03-17 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Fr, 17.03.2017, 21:28 schrieb Nyall Dawson: > That's odd logic. To me this reads that QGIS developers should spend > hours of volunteer time to make QGIS the hypothetical "perfect" > cartographic tool, and only then maybe organisations will start to > support QGIS. That's not how open source

Re: [Qgis-user] ShapeTools XY to Line

2017-03-17 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Fr, 17.03.2017, 19:21 schrieb C Hamilton: > How important would it be to implement other geodetic line types ie > GEODESIC , RHUMB_LINE, and NORMAL_SECTION. > I > had the code for Great Circle so it was easy to implement, > but I don't know how to implement the others. Try to implement

Re: [Qgis-user] ShapeTools XY to Line

2017-03-17 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Fr, 17.03.2017, 20:00 schrieb C Hamilton: > I can implement Vincenty as I have some of that code as well - > at least for WGS84. I am not an expert on projections so I am > not sure how to change the code to make it work for any ellipsoid. Wait, it's way better to use this one:

Re: [Qgis-user] Coordinates in map units are different between ArcInfo and Qgis

2017-03-15 Thread Tobias Wendorff
I had a presesentation about this some years ago on INTERGEO fair. It was about nautic maps and how to use them with a compass (sailing from Europe to America). I am from Germany, our "Norths" are identical, but on a trip from South to North America with a compass only would make lots of

[Qgis-user] Alternative labels on each iteration?

2017-03-15 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there! In ArcGIS, Mapnik and Mapserver it is possible to use alternative fields for labeling on each iteration. This makes it possible to use abbreviations when the full label does not fit in the map. Is this also possible in QGIS? Perhaps even driven by Python? ArcGIS has the nice feature

Re: [Qgis-user] Alternative labels on each iteration?

2017-03-17 Thread Tobias Wendorff
e replacements will always apply, not just in the case there is > no space for the full label. > > Andreas > > On 2017-03-17 10:13, Tobias Wendorff wrote: > >> Seems like this is not supported right now. >> >> Substitutions really need regex or expression functionali

Re: [Qgis-user] Processing - Duplicate tools for reprojecting

2017-03-21 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Di, 21.03.2017, 21:23 schrieb johnrobot: > I´m not convinced that having all these duplicates is a good thing. Do we > really need 13 buffering tools? Why not try to minimize this? Having > multiple tools for the same task only makes it harder for users and > developers. Does QGIS have to

Re: [Qgis-user] Processing - Duplicate tools for reprojecting

2017-04-05 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Mi, 5.04.2017, 20:45 schrieb DelazJ: > > http://www.opengis.ch/2016/02/04/increasing-the-stability-of-processing-algorithms/ The links in there are outdated. The correct/updates link is: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/tree/master/python/plugins/processing/tests I hope it also works with

[Qgis-user] multiline plugin toolbar?

2017-04-05 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there! The plugin toolbar is too small for my screen :) Is it possible to set it to multi line (like on ANY other tool)? Best regards, Tobias ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info:

Re: [Qgis-user] degrees: is degr/min/sec still used? Or decimal preferable?

2017-04-10 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there, I had a similar discussion some days ago. It was not about deg/min, about about precision. But the discussion isn't not that far away. QGIS, GDAL and other tools are locked to IEEE 754 arithmetics. I often had problems with this in the past, since only 14-15 digits behind the dot/comma

Re: [Qgis-user] Coordinates in map units are different between ArcInfo and Qgis

2017-03-09 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Do, 9.03.2017, 19:33 schrieb Tudorache, Marian: > > It seems the reason why I get different x and y in ArcInfo is because I > have to transform those coordinate based on magnetic declination. What, a dynamic projection connected the Earth' magnetic declination? I thought, I've already seen

[Qgis-user] How to merge layers without a work-around?

2017-03-09 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there. Is there any way to merge two scratch layers? Even big ones... I've tried the one in SAGA, in MMQGIS and the native QGIS one. SAGA's executable crashed after 5 minutes, but QGIS was alive. MMQGIS also throw out an error after some minutes of processing. And the native one tells me:

[Qgis-user] status of bug report

2017-03-03 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there! About three weeks ago, I've posted a possible bug in the WMS client of QGIS. This bug hasn't been reviewed or assigned to a developer: https://hub.qgis.org/issues/16180 Did I miss something to make or did I post it in the wrong section? Best regards, Tobias

[Qgis-user] QGIS loaded millions of entries

2017-03-03 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there! I'm using QGIS 2.18.3 (Windows 7, 64bit with 16 GB of RAM). I've loaded a PostgreSQL table with more than 3 * 10^6 entries. When accesing the attributes, QGIS downloads all the attributes! QGIS first gets instable and crashes afterwards. Actually, it would be more useful to download

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS loaded millions of entries

2017-03-03 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Sa, 4.03.2017, 03:49 schrieb Nyall Dawson: >> I've loaded a PostgreSQL table with more than 3 * 10^6 entries. >> When accesing the attributes, QGIS downloads all the attributes! >> QGIS first gets instable and crashes afterwards. >> >> Actually, it would be more useful to download only the

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS loaded millions of entries

2017-03-04 Thread Tobias Wendorff
t viewing attributes in the table is a common task, f.e. for the co-works in my office. It would be very hard for them to understand, why to get out of QGIS just to watch the attribute table :) I think, limiting the amount of data to the current view will be a big benefit. > On 04-03-17 0

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS loaded millions of entries

2017-03-04 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Sa, 4.03.2017, 08:34 schrieb Alessandro Pasotti: > > Yes, that would be a strategy, but you might run into problem with > sorting and filtering if the data provider does not support for it. All database-like formats, even Shapefile's DBF, support sorting on database level. I've never

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS loaded millions of entries

2017-03-04 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Sa, 4.03.2017, 10:38 schrieb Nathan Woodrow: > >> If you go to settings -> options -> data sources you can change > "attribute table behaviour" to "show features visible on map" > > That means it will only request what you see in the map. Yeah, that's totally fine right now. Thanks for help :)

Re: [Qgis-user] status of bug report

2017-03-03 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Sa, 4.03.2017, 08:29 schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde: > > Ah, see bugreport... > > I think it is a misconfigured wms: > > [snipped out the very long URL] > > gives an image but only at that zoomlevel... > > zooming out you do not see anything I just woke up ;) Let me read your posts and reply

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS loaded millions of entries

2017-03-04 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Sa, 4.03.2017, 09:25 schrieb Nathan Woodrow: > Hmm are you sure we don't do this already? Because the counter of attribute table increased to some hundret thousand entries and my QGIS v2.18.3 got grayed out in the back, leading to a crash some seconds after :( With an unsaved project of

[Qgis-user] How-to: add spatial reference to SQLite DBs

2017-03-04 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there. I'm new to this mailing list, so let me give some knowledge from my work in QGIS (I don't want to take only, hehe). Maybe it helps someone or leads to a nice discussion, how to make it even better. Often, it's more useful to store geodata in small SQLite. Sure, it doesn't have all the

Re: [Qgis-user] Processing documentaton and help

2017-03-04 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Sa, 4.03.2017, 12:19 schrieb johnrobot: > > - Most tools seem to lack description in the help tab. Are there any > guidelines on what must be included in this tab? Is it up the the > supplier of the tool or can others help to create and improve the > documentation as well? I agree. That's

Re: [Qgis-user] status of bug report

2017-03-04 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Sa, 4.03.2017, 18:29 schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde: > I still think it is a misconfigured WMS server. > > Which server are you using? The one I've posted in the bug report. I'm using QGIS as a client. > Which data are you using? Check the BBOX I've posted in the bug report. [snip] > The

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

2017-03-09 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Sorry for FQ In ArcGIS you can limit processing by mask, extent and query. -- Von einem iPhone gesendet und wird daher Fehler enthalten… Am 09.03.2017 um 11:03 schrieb "Bernd Vogelgesang" : > Am 09.03.2017, 08:28 Uhr, schrieb Neumann, Andreas : >

[Qgis-user] Topology-error to geometry

2017-03-09 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there. Is it possible to create a geometry for the topology-errors being found? Points would be nice ... it's easier to share or communicate with geoms ;) Best regards, Tobias ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info:

Re: [Qgis-user] select by radius [v2.18.4, possible bug]

2017-03-13 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Mo, 13.03.2017, 04:56 schrieb Nyall Dawson: > > Check your geometries. This has been experienced in the past as a > result of a layer with invalid geometries. I was able to figure out the problem. My canvas uses a geographic CRS. But I still believe that's a bug. See my description in the

Re: [Qgis-user] How to merge layers without a work-around?

2017-03-12 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am So, 12.03.2017, 11:51 schrieb Matthias Kuhn: > > Please try the latest nightly from 2.18 (and comment on the issue if > it's still not fixed) so this can be shipped in a good shape with 2.15. I don't think, OSgeo4W has the nightlies for 2.18 (only dev), so I've "backported" it to 2.18.4 and

[Qgis-user] select by radius [v2.18.4, possible bug]

2017-03-12 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there! Before writing a bug-report, could anyone please verify that "select by radius" isn't working? Right now, it deselects an existing selection only, but doesn't select any new items. All other selection types seem to work. Best regards, Tobias

Re: [Qgis-user] select by radius [v2.18.4, possible bug]

2017-03-12 Thread Tobias Wendorff
I've filed this as a bug: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/16346 Am So, 12.03.2017, 17:00 schrieb Tobias Wendorff: > Hi there! > > Before writing a bug-report, could anyone please verify that > "select by radius" isn't working? > > Right now, it deselects an existing

Re: [Qgis-user] select by radius [v2.18.4, possible bug]

2017-03-12 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi Martin, thanks for your reply. Am So, 12.03.2017, 22:43 schrieb Martin Bain: > > Its working for me on 2.18.4 32 bit Win 7. Select by radius creates > a new selection, with the shift key it adds to existing selection, > control key removes from selection, alt key changes to select > only

Re: [Qgis-user] How to merge layers without a work-around?

2017-03-10 Thread Tobias Wendorff
damos wrote > I would copy one and paste as a new layer eg shapefile, then select the > next set of data and page to my new shape file. > Not scratch layers, but it works. Sure, but that's so much work and also takes a lot of time if you have multiple layers. I'd simply like to select 3-4 of my

Re: [Qgis-user] How to merge layers without a work-around?

2017-03-10 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Árni Geirsson wrote > I have used a virtual layer to do the following > select * from layer1 > union all > select * from layer2 Wow, I've never tried virtual layers in QGIS. Sounds interesting, thanks. -- View this message in context:

Re: [Qgis-user] Daily nightlies (OSGeo4w builds) - error on startup

2017-03-13 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi Jürgen, Am Mo, 13.03.2017, 22:02 schrieb Jürgen E. Fischer: > > On Mon, 13. Mar 2017 at 20:24:34 +0100, Tobias Wendorff wrote: >> Some plugins and even "processing" are complaining that "yaml" can't >> be found: "ImportError: No module named yaml&qu

[Qgis-user] How to snap panels & toolbars?

2017-03-13 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there, can anyone please tell me, how to snap panels back to a fixed position? When I drag them out, I'll get floating panels - but I never can get them back to fixed ones. Same with toolbars. When double-clicking the title of a panels, I can get them snapped, but not where I want them to be.

Re: [Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] QGIS loaded millions of entries

2017-03-04 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am So, 5.03.2017, 04:03 schrieb Nyall Dawson: > > A change I just pushed to master also prevents this full table load if > you use the "show selected features" mode. So that helps a bit. Thanks, so this will appear in v3.0? I'm using OSGeo4W, let me try the nightly builds.

Re: [Qgis-user] Processing documentation and help

2017-03-05 Thread Tobias Wendorff
I know, that is why I would like to help writing the documentation ans don't want to report issues only. Is there a howto for editing the docs? Am 06.03.2017 um 00:49 schrieb Johanna Botman : > Hi Tobias, > > In regard to your documentation request, you

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

2017-03-31 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Fr, 31.03.2017, 11:00 schrieb Anita Graser: > > I'm not in the business of telling designers which tools they should use Sure you can. I'm often doing freelancer jobs, which allow me to use FOSS only. The logo doesn't have anything you can't do with Inkscape and a texteditor. > but I agree

Re: [Qgis-user] Area Calculations - what the h... is going on?

2017-07-09 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Good work -- Von einem iPhone gesendet und wird daher Fehler enthalten… Am 10.07.2017 um 04:00 schrieb Nyall Dawson : > On 7 July 2017 at 00:38, magerlin wrote: >> I normally use $area in the field calculator to calculate areas of polygon >> but now

Re: [Qgis-user] Web Scraping

2017-08-18 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there, that's pretty offtopic, but let me try a quick answer: "Eventbrite" uses Google Maps API (or engine) to query and display the location of its events. Normally, those websites query Google's geocoder in realtime, since Google doesn't allow to store coordinates in other systems. You are

Re: [Qgis-user] Web Scraping

2017-08-18 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Sorry, I have to fix my answer. The coordinate of the location actually IS stored inside the HTML code, f.e.: You can create a Python script to parse the HTML content and read out the meta-tag's attributes. But check the copyright first of course. Am Fr, 18.08.2017, 10:23 schrieb Finbar

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 2.18.8: Update with issues

2017-05-26 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Fr, 26.05.2017, 10:53 schrieb Jürgen E. Fischer: > > Test the nighlies before the release please. I think, we've talked about this some week ago. QGIS really needs a test suite, which checks all the core functions automatically :( ___ Qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 2.18.8: Update with issues

2017-05-26 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Fr, 26.05.2017, 14:21 schrieb Jürgen E. Fischer: > > Yes. And some people need to learn how to rub people the right way. Trust me, I'm doing lots of testing. Detecting unexpected behavior in QGIS saves me lots of explanation time to its users. Thanks for your quick fixes.

[Qgis-user] CSV import: ignore emptry geometry

2017-05-27 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there, I know, this is kind of a feature request... But before posting one, I'd like to verify that this feature doesn't exist already. I often have text files, where geometry is incomplete or missing. When importing these lists, the geom field is invalid and some plugins run into trouble

[Qgis-user] Can we make QGIS stop lying?

2017-05-25 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there! Yesterday, I gave an introductory workshop at University on how to download OSM-data off its website and work on it in QGIS. The students are in master's degree now and learned ArcGIS in their study runs only. So we have to make QGIS tasty to them. I've explained the students, how to

Re: [Qgis-user] Can we make QGIS stop lying?

2017-05-25 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Do, 25.05.2017, 22:39 schrieb Redoute: > but doesn't set the ellipsoid, see > Good find! Let's find something like getEllipsoid.a/b from "layerPoints.crs().srsid()" and we can release a patch.

Re: [Qgis-user] Can we make QGIS stop lying?

2017-05-25 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Do, 25.05.2017, 22:39 schrieb Redoute: Oops, there it is: QgsDistanceArea::ellipsoidSemiMajor QgsDistanceArea::ellipsoidSemiMinor ___ Qgis-user mailing list

Re: [Qgis-user] Can we make QGIS stop lying? // fixed

2017-05-25 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Do, 25.05.2017, 23:37 schrieb Nyall Dawson: > Looks like there's a fix for this in 3.0 already - I'll backport now. Thanks a lot. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] Can we make QGIS stop lying?

2017-05-25 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Do, 25.05.2017, 23:51 schrieb Nyall Dawson: > > Ok - here's the correct fix: > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/7e089a1c01c3996a43a90c79caa6fb549a737bdd Thanks, I'll try soon. Wow, has this bug floated around 7 years now? :) ___ Qgis-user mailing

Re: [Qgis-user] Can we make QGIS stop lying?

2017-05-25 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi Carlos, Am Do, 25.05.2017, 19:30 schrieb Carlos Cerdán: > I understand your frustation (I've lived it), but QGIS doesn't lie, > it is different from the way that some topics are done in another > GIS. I know, but the field, where you can select the output clearly shows "meters". So I expect

Re: [Qgis-user] minidump with 2.18.9 at project opening

2017-05-29 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Di, 30.05.2017, 02:43 schrieb Laurence Béchet: > > I'm happy to dig a bit deeper, but I have no idea where to look now. > Also when I close qgis I always get an error message qgis-bin.exe has > stopped working (but that's not new). I'm having equal problem when closing QGIS. I think one of the

Re: [Qgis-user] Split features tool behavior

2017-05-31 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Yes, Bernhard is right. Actually, this might be caused by rounding issues (or by the limit of floating point calculations). I often have problems with topology when working with another projection. The direct and its invers calculation hardly is the same. Am Mi, 31.05.2017, 10:53 schrieb

[Qgis-user] storage of configs beside .qgis2

2017-06-05 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there, I'm on QGIS rel-dev on Windows 7. I've removed my .qgis2 config folder, but there are still many settings stored when restarting QGIS (f.e. the URLs to WMS, WFS etc.). Even after wiping the complete OSGeo4W-installation directory, those configs still exist. I can't get a clean QGIS

Re: [Qgis-user] Geodesic Measure Tool With Bearing Information

2017-06-14 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Mi, 14.06.2017, 23:41 schrieb Nyall Dawson: > > This looks relevant: > > https://github.com/sourcepole/kadas-albireo/commit/df64318e5198f40f0e96d27fcf9e179fbbf682fd Thanks, nice find. After googling a bit: that seems to be the GIS of the Swiss army :)

Re: [Qgis-user] problems with 'geometry creator'

2017-06-11 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Dear *Matthias*! Am So, 11.06.2017, 12:25 schrieb Matthias Kuhn: [switching order of the original mail] > It also helps a lot to answer with the correct name of the person who > responded. While this technically doesn't solve any current issues, it > considerably improves the chances of

[Qgis-user] problems with 'geometry creator'

2017-06-10 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there! I'm experiencing problems using "geometry generator". Perhaps I don't understand this tool correctly or perhaps I'm using it wrong. Could anyone please help a look? I've created five linestrings, which are connected to each other (CRS is EPSG:25832): LineString (452926.429

[Qgis-user] unexpected CRS behavior (GRASS)

2017-06-10 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there! I'm experiencing an unexpected behavior. Before filing a bug, could anyone please test this? I'm using v2.18.9-10, but I also had this problem on normal stable; additionally, I'm using GRASS 7.2.1. I've drawn a random linestring across Germany in EPSG:25832 (UTM32N): LineString

Re: [Qgis-user] problems with 'geometry creator'

2017-06-11 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi Matthias, Am So, 11.06.2017, 12:25 schrieb Matthias Kuhn: > > Sometimes - if you are lucky - they even produce better > results for you than trying random things. got it working - my MultiLinestring was buggy. So it wasn't "random trying", but an input error. Best regards, Tobias

Re: [Qgis-user] problems with 'geometry creator'

2017-06-11 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi Fernando, Am So, 11.06.2017, 19:13 schrieb Fernando M. Roxo da Motta: > > I am not certain to have understood your problem. I'm having trouble using "Geometry creator" in Style. Actually, I had problems, this is working now: buffer($geometry, 2000) and line_merge($geometry) Input really

Re: [Qgis-user] unexpected CRS behavior (GRASS)

2017-06-11 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi Andre, nice to read from you here. Am So, 11.06.2017, 07:56 schrieb Andre Joost: > If you save the Linestring to a shapefile with EPSG:32632, it runs > correctly. Interesting :) Thanks for pointing this out. > It seems that GRASS gets confused over the similar WKT definitions . GRASS or

Re: [Qgis-user] problems with 'geometry creator'

2017-06-11 Thread Tobias Wendorff
ething with support for aggregation > like either a virtual layer or it might be possible to use aggregate > expression function with "collect". > > Matthias > >> On 6/11/17 2:01 AM, Tobias Wendorff wrote: >> Hi there! >> >> I'm experiencing problems u

Re: [Qgis-user] Can we make QGIS stop lying?

2017-05-25 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Dear Kai, Am Do, 25.05.2017, 21:02 schrieb Redoute: > If you are complaining about the "Distance to nearest hub" processing > algorithm, you should have written that. Sorry, you're right. I didn't make it that obvious, quote: "I've used hub lines for this." I should have specified the tool.

Re: [Qgis-user] Can we make QGIS stop lying?

2017-05-25 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Do, 25.05.2017, 21:31 schrieb C Hamilton: > I am using the python geographiclib for my "Shape Tools" plugin, but I > assume their C version will be faster. Let's benchmark it. Since most of the QGIS scripts are in Python, speed shouldn't matter that much. Better a 5 % slower script than a 100

Re: [Qgis-user] Can we make QGIS stop lying?

2017-05-25 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Do, 25.05.2017, 21:53 schrieb Stefan Keller: > @Tobias LMGTFY: > https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/127947/distance-to-nearest-hub-output-not-correct LMETTY: That's what I wrote: The result is based on the CRS/SRS of the source files. Since the script says "meters", the GUI is wrong and

Re: [Qgis-user] storage of configs beside .qgis2

2017-06-05 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Thanks. Yep, you're right. Removing the key (after backup this one of course) helped me. I didn't think of the fact that QGIS uses registry at all... maybe we should file this as a bug, hehe :) Best regards, Tobias > Am 05.06.2017 um 20:23 schrieb Tobias Wendorff: >> Hi there, >> >&g

Re: [Qgis-user] storage of configs beside .qgis2

2017-06-05 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Sorry for removing the quoting... Am Mo, 5.06.2017, 22:15 schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde: > > Yep, in this way it is easy to have different QGIS environments (with > different settings and plugins for example)... This should be default for Windows, since it's pretty hard for normal users to find

Re: [Qgis-user] storage of configs beside .qgis2

2017-06-05 Thread Tobias Wendorff
ings where stored in your > config directory. Oh, this makes QGIS not use Windows' registry? Nice, thanks for the hint! Best, Tobias > Am 05.06.2017 um 20:23 schrieb Tobias Wendorff: > >> I'm on QGIS rel-dev on Windows 7. I've removed my .qgis2 config folder, >> but there a

Re: [Qgis-user] use selected features only - gone for good?

2017-10-14 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Fr, 13.10.2017, 19:40 schrieb Etienne Trimaille: > > Wait for QGIS 3 ;-) Seems like QGIS can bake AND cook? Even the Thermomix can't do this! ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info:

[Qgis-user] wrong SRS identification (new information)

2017-10-15 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Don't take it badly, but I have to pump this error message here as well. The errors are accumulating and I have no idea if the problem will persist with QGIS3: https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17138 Even if it will be fixed in QGIS3, keep in mind that many users and corporations want to stay with

[Qgis-user] workaround for bug on QGIS-DEV installation (qwt.dll)

2017-10-15 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there! I've already reported the problem [1], just want to give you a summary. I've just installed QGIS-DEV on a clean system (Windows 7, 64-bit). After installation was finished, QGIS doesn't come up, but complains about a missing "qwt.dll". The library was installed, so I've digged a little

Re: [Qgis-user] wrong SRS identification (new information)

2017-10-15 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi Patrick, it's not about project files, it's about shapefiles and reading of information in PRJ file. I'll add an example to the bug report. Thanks for the idea! Tobias Am So, 15.10.2017, 23:15 schrieb Patrick Dunford: > I had issues with later masters not detecting CRS from project files >

Re: [Qgis-user] use selected features only - gone for good?

2017-10-13 Thread Tobias Wendorff
back? Best regards, Tobias > 2017-10-13 16:51 GMT+02:00 Tobias Wendorff > <tobias.wendo...@tu-dortmund.de>: > >> Why had "use selected features only" to die? >> https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/61753/se

[Qgis-user] use selected features only - gone for good?

2017-10-13 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there! Why had "use selected features only" to die? https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/61753/selecting-features-within-polygon-from-another-layer-using-qgis It doesn't appear in latest QGIS2... Right now, you need to copy the selection to a temporary layer and use this one for

Re: [Qgis-user] geocoding with own locator based on points

2017-09-06 Thread Tobias Wendorff
uest for opensource as well. > > > > Am 2017-09-06 11:25, schrieb Tobias Wendorff: >> Do you have a local copy of ALKIS data (like PostNAS) or do you want >> to use an external geocoding service? >> -- >> Von einem iPhone gesendet und wird daher Fehler

Re: [Qgis-user] geocoding with own locator based on points

2017-09-06 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Do you have a local copy of ALKIS data (like PostNAS) or do you want to use an external geocoding service? -- Von einem iPhone gesendet und wird daher Fehler enthalten. > Am 06.09.2017 um 11:10 schrieb Sandra Machalica > : > > > Dear list, > > we have to

Re: [Qgis-user] geocoding with own locator based on points

2017-09-06 Thread Tobias Wendorff
system, try it out to. (?) > > > > Am 2017-09-06 11:59, schrieb Tobias Wendorff: >> As a work-around, you could transform the data into Nominatin's scheme >> and run a local instance of it (based on PostgreSQL). >> Changing the URLs inside existing geocoding plugins (to

[Qgis-user] Transform to temporary layer

2017-10-11 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there! Is there an option in toolbox to transform an existing layer to a temporary one? Right now I need to export the file and reload it first… Best regards, Tobias ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info:

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS SVG: outdated warning

2017-11-25 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Sa, 25.11.2017, 15:10 schrieb Patrick Dunford: > It means PDF. I don't recall there ever being a postscript option. Yeah, that confused me ;) I wonder, why creating is done by Qt at all. Cairo might be a better solution. But I can't help at that point :(

[Qgis-user] QGIS SVG: outdated warning

2017-11-25 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there! I'm on latest QGIS2 (stable). When choosing "SVG export" on map composer, you'll get this warning: "The SVG export function in QGIS has several problems due to bugs and deficiencies in the Qt4 svg code. In particular, there are problems with layers not being clipped to the map bounding

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS SVG: outdated warning

2017-11-25 Thread Tobias Wendorff
red shape with >>> labels with me. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Richard >>> >>> On 25-11-17 12:20, Matthias Kuhn wrote: >>>> Hi Tobias, >>>> >>>> there is no stable release using Qt5 so far. Can you verify with QGIS >>&g

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS SVG: outdated warning

2017-11-25 Thread Tobias Wendorff
no stable release using Qt5 so far. Can you verify with QGIS > 2.99? > > Thanks > > Matthias > > > On 11/25/2017 09:44 AM, Tobias Wendorff wrote: >> Hi there! >> >> I'm on latest QGIS2 (stable). When choosing "SVG export" on map >> composer,

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS SVG: outdated warning

2017-11-25 Thread Tobias Wendorff
olored shape with > labels with me. > > Regards, > Richard > > On 25-11-17 12:20, Matthias Kuhn wrote: >> Hi Tobias, >> >> there is no stable release using Qt5 so far. Can you verify with QGIS >> 2.99? >> >> Thanks >> >> Matthias >> >

[Qgis-user] proj on Windows: mini howto for Cygwin

2018-05-04 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there, since "proj" uses OSGeo4W to release Windows builds, some users are disappointed since OSGeo4W hasn't updated this library for quote a while. Since I wanted to do some tests with latest proj, I had to compile it for myself. Perhaps you're interested in the steps needed. I've used a

[Qgis-user] proj: NTv2 for Baden-Württemberg

2018-05-04 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there, in Germany, two further states are currently switching to UTM32 (Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg). Both have published the NTv2 files as OpenData. Since I had a set of GK3 coordinates (EPSG:31467) from Baden-Würtemberg, I checked if the new version 5.0.1 of "proj" can process the data

[Qgis-user] QGIS3: loading in Processing broken

2018-05-07 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there, I'll write a bug report soon, but wanted to ask others first if they expect similar problems in other builds. I'm on Windows 7, 64 bit with QGIS build ba9f27e280. 1. When loading a GPKG file in Processing, you cannot select the layer, processing should work on. Since GPKG is a

Re: [Qgis-user] GEOS-Verarbeitungsfehler: Ein oder mehrere Eingabeobjekte haben ungültige Geometrien.

2018-05-25 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi Andreas, I often have these problems with fine geometries, too. I'm just running "fix geometry" on it and I've never seen an actual change on the data (I've posted about this on the mailinglist some weeks ago). Since I never tracked down the actual change in my geometries, it might be some

[Qgis-user] hide vector under raster?

2018-05-29 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there, is it possible to hide a vector layer under a raster layer? The "click through" identify function allows to query data from the vector, but on each zoom the vector layer gets rendered completely again. Sure, it makes use of an spatial index, but since there are many vector elements, it

Re: [Qgis-user] hide vector under raster?

2018-05-29 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there, Am Di, 29.05.2018, 14:17 schrieb Karl Magnus Jönsson: > > How about using the no symbols renderer in the style tab in Layer > properties? Wouldn't that do? I just had the same idea, but no... when zooming out, QGIS crashes after some minutes (even on a big machine). I really miss

Re: [Qgis-user] hide vector under raster?

2018-05-29 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi Bernhard, Am Di, 29.05.2018, 14:42 schrieb Bernhard Ströbl: > 1) You have a vector layer with _many_ features Exactly. > 2) You do not want to have it rendered because it takes so long to render Exactly. > 3) You want to query this layer Exactly. > 4) When you zoom out QGIS crashes when

[Qgis-user] replace all selected raw field values...

2018-06-24 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there, can anyone please explain "replace all selected raw field values by displayed values" to me? Why is it default? Best regards, Tobias ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info:

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS ignore the cpg files when loading shapefiles ?

2017-12-29 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Fr, 29.12.2017, 13:02 schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde: > > So the project is leading Then the setting is in the wrong place. In QGIS3, it's an application wide setting, not a project setting. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS ignore the cpg files when loading shapefiles ?

2017-12-29 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Am Fr, 29.12.2017, 12:19 schrieb Andrea Peri: > > I like to know if is confirmed that qgis is ignoring the cpg file. 1. Goto Settings > Options > Data Sources, 2. Check / uncheck "Ignore shapefile encoding declaration". One of the top annoying problems I often have to deal with ;)

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