[Qgis-user] Adding virtual X & Y columns to a QGIS attribute form

2024-03-21 Thread Brent Wood via QGIS-User
t I want these in the form view, not the table view. Any suggestions appreciated. Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 [https://www.niwa.co.nz/static/niwa-2018-horizontal-180.png] <https://www.niwa.co.nz> Brent Wood Principal Technician - GIS and Spatial D

Re: [Qgis-user] Adding a Web map to QGIS

2024-03-11 Thread Brent Wood via QGIS-User
data in-house, but also provide their data to data.gov, where it is more accessible. Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 From: QGIS-User on behalf of Emma Hain via QGIS-User Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 12:21 To: krishna Ay

[Qgis-user] Problem: Can't open Spatialite tables in QGIS on Windows

2024-03-05 Thread Brent Wood via QGIS-User
r, scaled by the magnitude of the echo from fish, showing the location and density of fish encountered on each transect (ESP3 is used for the acoustic analysis). This dataset was from surveying a hill off the west coast of New Zealand (generated on Linux!). [cid:d8335c55-7ad0-42bf-a514-c2ff56fc3

[Qgis-user] QGIS unable to access Spatialite tables.

2024-02-22 Thread Brent Wood via QGIS-User
etry exported as WKT & then open the text file in QGIS. At present I'm still trying to get access to the QGIS issues facility to log this problem, so cannot raise this there at present. Thanks... Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 [https://www.niwa.co.nz/sta

[Qgis-user] QGIS/spatialite issue - invalid layers

2024-01-30 Thread Brent Wood via QGIS-User
hy... I have been doing this sort of stuff for years & not encountered this before. Can anyone help me sort out why QGIS regards the data as invalid, & how to fix this? Thanks Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 [https://www.niwa.co.nz/static/niwa-

[Qgis-user] QGIS attribute forms question

2023-12-04 Thread Brent Wood via QGIS-User
ally creating the whole form from scratch? Thanks Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 [https://www.niwa.co.nz/static/niwa-2018-horizontal-180.png] <https://www.niwa.co.nz> Brent Wood Principal Technician - GIS and Spatial Data Management Progra

[Qgis-user] Null value issue in attribute form

2023-11-09 Thread Brent Wood via QGIS-User
orm up to have a "not null" constraint applied in the form, without having QGIS pre-populate the field in the form with the string 'NULL'? It works for integer types, the form has an italicised 'NULL' but this does NOT form part of the value in the field, unlike the string field. Thank

Re: [Qgis-user] How can I center a world map cylindric projection over the Pacific Ocean?

2023-04-28 Thread Brent Wood via QGIS-User
Create a custom projection (CRS) with the parameters you want. >From the main menu Settings -> Custom projections Find one that is close to what you want, paste it here & edit to your preferences Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (

[Qgis-user] Post Cyclone Gabrielle aerial imagery for Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

2023-03-26 Thread Brent Wood via QGIS-User
sediment deposits - seems to work well. Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 [https://www.niwa.co.nz/static/niwa-2018-horizontal-180.png] <https://www.niwa.co.nz> Brent Wood Principal Technician - GIS and Spatial Data Management Programme Leader - Environ

Re: [Qgis-user] transferring data from ArcGis to QGIS

2023-01-19 Thread Brent Wood via QGIS-User
Hi Janet, See https://north-road.com/slyr/ There is a free community version and a commercial one if you need the extra functionality. Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 From: QGIS-User on behalf of Janet via QGIS-User

[Qgis-user] QGIS & GPS

2023-01-19 Thread Brent Wood via QGIS-User
USB GPS which simply and reliably works with QGIS on Windows? Is this something that I should file a bug report for (it does seem to be a fragility in QGIS that is not present in other GPS software)? I'm happy to send a working USB GPS to any dev willing to look into this. Thanks Brent Wood Principal T

Re: [Qgis-user] The license agreement of QGIS

2022-12-07 Thread Brent Wood via QGIS-User
business, etc., that doesn't matter. Note that if you do change the source code to provide some functionality that you require, the licence requires you to make your enhancements available under the same licence. Cheers, Brent Wood From: QGIS-User on behalf

[Qgis-user] Proj DB version conflict

2022-11-13 Thread Brent Wood via Qgis-user
Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 [https://www.niwa.co.nz/static/niwa-2018-horizontal-180.png] <https://www.niwa.co.nz> Brent Wood Principal Technician - GIS and Spatial Data Management Programme Leader - Environmental Information Delivery +64-4-38

Re: [Qgis-user] Watershed - Catchment area upstream of a point

2022-11-08 Thread Brent Wood via Qgis-user
Hi Tony, Just wondering If QGIS is using SAGA to do the work, have you considered installing SAGA & using it directly? Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 From: Qgis-user on behalf of Tony Shepherd (FarmMaps NZ) via

Re: [Qgis-user] [QGIS-Developer] Model for Temporal Measurement (vector) Datasets ?

2022-09-04 Thread Brent Wood via Qgis-user
vice) software. Perhaps overkill for your use case, but a very complete and robust solution. See: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-52-North-SOS-schema_fig14_327124727 Hope this helps, there are certainly effective ways to do what you want out there. Cheers Brent Wood Principal Techni

[Qgis-user] Replay GPS data

2022-07-15 Thread Brent Wood via Qgis-user
. Any advice appreciated! Thanks Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 From: Qgis-user on behalf of Nyall Dawson via Qgis-user Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 13:08 To: Piet Cc: qgis-user Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Qgis 3.22.8 Error

Re: [Qgis-user] Polar stereographic (0 - 360 longitudes)

2022-06-19 Thread Brent Wood via Qgis-user
ich I assigned a code of 4327, this was essentially 4326 in a 0-360 degree space, so I could reproject between them, I'm not sure if this is still possible with the latest versions of proj with wkt definitions. Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860

Re: [Qgis-user] RAM and processing speed requirements for QGIS

2022-04-19 Thread Brent Wood via Qgis-user
ally, I find the best general purpose platform to install & run QGIS on is Linux. If you are into cartography and the Adobe tools to work with graphics, then a Mac. Windows only if you don't have a choice. Cheers Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI:

Re: [Qgis-user] Model Designer - GDAL - Vector Conversion

2022-03-08 Thread Brent Wood via Qgis-user
Have you considered a script or batch file using ogr2ogr to do this for you? Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 From: Qgis-user on behalf of Johanna Botman via Qgis-user Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 12:41 To: qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] Rounding off QgsPointXY

2022-02-20 Thread Brent Wood
tive suite. Postgis enables not just data management and query capability, but substantial spatial analytical power, QGIS provides visualisation, as well as additional analytical tools. Cheers Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529

[Qgis-user] OGR VRT issue?

2021-12-19 Thread Brent Wood
* from test; id|lat|lon 1|-41.354|174.567 Can anyone explain why this fails in QGIS? I'm running QGIS v3.16.11 on Linux (deb platform) Thanks, Brent Wood ogrinfo result: ogrinfo -geom=YES -al test.vrt INFO: Open of `test.vrt' using driver `OGR_VRT' successful. - 'VirtualXPath' [X

Re: [Qgis-user] Tip for managing heavy data

2021-11-25 Thread Brent Wood
Use a Postgis database. Should tick all your boxes and more. I can help you set this up if you want (contact me off-group) Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 From: Qgis-user on behalf of Dario Sent: Friday, November 26

Re: [Qgis-user] batch operation on gpkg with multiple layers

2021-09-23 Thread Brent Wood
Umm, A bit left fieldish, but is that sort of thing something that Postgis is perhaps more suited to than QGIS? Could you not ogr the geopackage into Postgis & script up the work you want doing? It sounds like what you want to do is very much in the arena of data management. Brent

Re: [Qgis-user] On the capabilities of QGIS

2021-09-19 Thread Brent Wood
up solar reflective farms to offset climate change. Cheers Brent Wood  G'day there, all, QGIS just discovered. Oh. Wow. Jennifer of Chermside Oz here, with two questions of a very generic nature. Sorry. Before I commit a big slice of my remaining life-span trying to mistress GIS via Q, can I ask

Re: [Qgis-user] noobs -- question

2021-03-07 Thread Brent Wood
Yep, I think Alexandre is correct. Change this to: create table bidule (id serial primary key, libelle text, geog geography(multipolygon, 4326)); or, given you already have the table: alter table bidule add constraint bidule_pk primary key (id); You might find this link

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 3.10

2021-03-04 Thread Brent Wood
See: https://qgis.org/downloads/ for a big list of Windows installers for old versions of QGIS Choose whichever 3.10 version you want! Cheers Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 From: Qgis-user on behalf of Amy Norwood

Re: [Qgis-user] how to find center of polygons and/or major and minor diameters

2021-01-12 Thread Brent Wood
This may be a suitable approach, not specifically the ellipse axis approach, but: Vector -> Geometry tools -> Centroid may do what you want, depending on exactly how QGIS calculates the centroid... Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3

Re: [Qgis-user] Qgis-user mailing list

2021-01-11 Thread Brent Wood
ly well, I find it can be easier to manage the data in Postgis tables in a database, and use Postgis SQL statements to do this, using QGIS to see the resulting data in the map canvas. Cheers Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529

Re: [Qgis-user] Vote for Lat Lon Tools Default Coordinate Order - YX or XY

2020-11-20 Thread Brent Wood
1. "lat/lon"  is the world wide order for degree based maps (esp in the navigation space) 2. "Lat Lon is the name of the tool, It doesn't make any sense (to me) to have lon/lat as the default order for this tool. I know some other GIS tools use lon lat to be consistent with northings &

Re: [Qgis-user] Historical data in QGIS-PostGIS

2020-11-13 Thread Brent Wood
; generate a new graphic via SQL, at least on Linux, the image viewer recognises the change & refreshes the screen. This is MUCH easier & faster than any other way I have tried to visualise my data directly from a database. Cheers Brent Wood Principal Technician, Fisheries NI

Re: [Qgis-user] Show multiple photos attached to one feature

2020-10-16 Thread Brent Wood
ith as many images per feature as you like (within reason... 3 might be a problem!! Hope this helps, I find the Action tool very useful for this sort of thing. Not quite as easy in Windows, which is not primarily a command line setup, but can still be done. Cheers Brent Wood Principal

Re: [Qgis-user] Intel vs AMD

2020-09-10 Thread Brent Wood
de la siguiente dirección de correo electrónico: ad...@psig.es El mié., 9 sept. 2020 a las 22:41, Brent Wood () escribió: Hi, Not specifically AMD vs Intel, that is pretty much irrelevant. It more depends which cpu (how powerful/fast, how much memory & how big & how fast the disk. Lo

Re: [Qgis-user] Intel vs AMD

2020-09-09 Thread Brent Wood
much better buy than a new consumer grade laptop with a 1 yr warranty. A quick search found a few refurbished sellers in Perth (I'm in New Zealand so can't advise on vendors there), like:https://www.recompute.com.au/refurbished-laptops/https://www.reboot-it.com.au/used-laptops Cheers,

Re: [Qgis-user] how show themes from single polygon having rainfall time series data

2020-03-22 Thread Brent Wood
n both a web site & from QGIS (QGIS on Linux & Windows both worked, but the script was a bit different on each) HTH, Brent Wood Brent Wood Programme leader: Environmental Information Delivery NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 From: Qgis-user on behalf

Re: [Qgis-user] digitizing tools

2020-03-21 Thread Brent Wood
Have you tried to enable the toolbar? View -> Toolbars -> Advanced Digitising Toolbar It is off by default HTH Brent Wood Programme leader: Environmental Information Delivery NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 From: Qgis-user on behalf of Boaz Ba

[Qgis-user] QFIS WFS error msg help please

2020-03-18 Thread Brent Wood
for url srsname='EPSG:4326' typename='ms:Specimens' url='http://wellmapsrvdev.niwa.co.nz/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/usr/lib/cgi-bin/mapfiles/specify.map' version='auto' table="" sql=: it is probably a schema for Complex Features Any advice appreciated...

[Qgis-user] custom CRS issue

2020-03-10 Thread Brent Wood
Hi, I have been using a custom Albers Equal Area for gridding data for some years - setting it up in Postgis, R & QGIS.  +proj=aea +lat_1=-30 +lat_2=-50 +lat_0=-40 +lon_0=175 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs It is still working fine in my old QGIS 2.18, and in Postgis

Re: [Qgis-user] [QGIS-Developer] Thoughts on QGIS Development and LTR Releases

2020-03-01 Thread Brent Wood
o appreciate the benefits & issues of the current situation. IMHO, the extra stability of a longer term LTS will, overall, be beneficial. Thanks Brent Wood Brent Wood Programme leader: Environmental Information Delivery NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529

Re: [Qgis-user] Is location info included in metadata when save an image file?

2019-06-03 Thread Brent Wood
JPG images can only store a gps location internally, not the geographic extent of the image. TIFF is the only conventional raster image format which supports internal geographic extent metadata. Brent Wood Programme leader: Environmental Information Delivery NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529

Re: [Qgis-user] Fw: KMZ

2019-05-20 Thread Brent Wood
Save project as image - teh image (of the current map canvas) will be georeferenced (possibly with an accompanying world file) Brent Wood Programme leader: Environmental Information Delivery NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 [cid:image32b2e3.PNG@b08d6d79.418d88c3]<http://www.niwa.co.nz>

Re: [Qgis-user] KMZ

2019-05-19 Thread Brent Wood
I think KMZ supports lat/long coords only... Google doesn't really understand projections... Make sure your KMZ layer has EPSG:4326 as its projection HTH Brent Wood Programme leader: Environmental Information Delivery NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 [cid:imagef39a2d.PNG@780f91f3.4bbb007d

Re: [Qgis-user] SCP

2019-04-17 Thread Brent Wood
Please provide some details - the version of QGIS and any error messages. Brent Wood Programme leader: Environmental Information Delivery NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 [cid:image009d9b.PNG@8c932348.4aa6e05f]<http://www.niwa.co.nz> Brent Wood Principal Technician - GIS and Spatia

Re: [Qgis-user] (no subject)

2019-01-26 Thread Brent Wood
ust click on "Plugins" and once QGIS had downloaded the list of available plugins, search for DXF to find "Another DXF Importer / DXF2Shape Converter" Hope this helps Brent Wood Programme leader: Environmental Information Delivery NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 [ci

Re: [Qgis-user] Project files with local and remote connections to postgreSQL databases

2019-01-10 Thread Brent Wood
This is not tested, but I think it should work Enable host based access for local connections via the server IP address in your pg_hba file and use this for all QGIS access, so you apply the same access approach for both local & remote connections. Cheers Brent Wood Programme le

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Live GPS Tracking Settings (QGIS 2.14)

2018-10-25 Thread Brent Wood
treated as layers plotting subsets of data filtered & reformatted as required - so they become data management problems rather than live GPS data problems, and normal database functionality can be used to provide the required capabilities. Hope this helps!! Brent Wood Programme leader: En

Re: [Qgis-user] What Plug in does live GPS input in QGIS?

2018-08-22 Thread Brent Wood
points, with a counter allowing them to be ordered and easily turned into a line by another QGIS plugin (Points2One). Hope this helps... Brent Wood Programme leader: Environmental Information Delivery NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 [cid:image28d6a3.PNG@8dea1a7a.47832349]<http://www.niwa.co.nz&

Re: [Qgis-user] GPS Live Tracking Problem

2018-07-29 Thread Brent Wood
in the attribute values before saving... Brent Wood Programme leader: Environmental Information Delivery NIWA DDI: +64 (4) 3860529 From: Qgis-user on behalf of Don Parks Sent: Monday, July 30, 2018 01:17 To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [Qgis-user] G

Re: [Qgis-user] Simple methodology for user / data / map interactivity?

2017-02-23 Thread Brent Wood
Sort of in the area you are asking about: See the Action tool Under Windows this can invoke a batch file to display the result of an sql for data about the (Postgis) feature clicked on. Even easier under Linux with a bash script. If one of the fields is an image file, you can create an action

Re: [Qgis-user] Tool to copy the content of the map canvas to the clipboard

2016-12-21 Thread Brent Wood
I just save the project as image, then add the image to a document. While perhaps a few more clicks than using the clipboard, it works fine. Cheers, Brent On Wednesday, December 21, 2016 9:45 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: On 12/20/2016 09:43 PM, Larry Shaffer

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS vs ArcGIS in Education and Practice

2016-12-16 Thread Brent Wood
nations, QGIS is the preferred platform. Generally only in the first world, and often just western nations, is commercial GIS software a popular choice.  Brent Wood On Saturday, December 17, 2016 6:08 AM, Innisfree McKinnon <innisfree.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello again,Many, if not

Re: [Qgis-user] Plea for help with monochrome maps for publication

2016-11-11 Thread Brent Wood
QGIS also supports the native use of colour gradients from there, see:https://teamwork.niwa.co.nz/display/NQUG/Find+additional+colour+ramps Cheers Brent Wood From: Bernd Vogelgesang <bernd.vogelges...@gmx.de> To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2016 12:24 P

Re: [Qgis-user] Database options

2016-09-27 Thread Brent Wood
Hi, You can use Spatialite with both - by accessing the db via odbc in LibreOffice. This is describes OS X, but should work elsewhere as well. See: https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2016/02/10/libreoffice-base-sqlite-odbc-osx/ Cheers Brent Wood From: Tyler Veinot <tylerkvei...@gmail.

Re: [Qgis-user] Trying to establish contact with GIS educators using QGIS

2016-07-26 Thread Brent Wood
wh.org/event/2-day-qgis-course-ecologists-conservation-practitioners There are also QGIS courses associated with universities rather than run by universities. A staff member may run classes, for example. Cheers Brent Wood From: Badri Basnet <basn...@gmail.com> To: qgis-user@li

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Viewer

2016-06-30 Thread Brent Wood
And how do you stop a user from turning them on again? Brent Wood From: Heikki Vesanto <heikki.vesa...@gmail.com> To: t...@wildintellect.com Cc: qgis-user <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> Sent: Friday, July 1, 2016 6:18 AM Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Viewer You c

Re: [Qgis-user] Fwd: Access ArcGIS Rest Services in QGIS

2016-06-14 Thread Brent Wood
into the QGIS tool:http://gisservices.scc.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/Biota/Biota_SCRC/MapServer Cheers, Brent Wood From: Rob Stewart <rstew...@hydrologyandwater.com.au> To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 2:25 PM Subject: [Qgis-user] Fwd: Access ArcGIS Rest Se

[Qgis-user] "Open Geospatial Science & Applications" webinar series

2016-05-10 Thread Brent Wood
as recorded videos if you missed the live event (probably useful in the NZ time zone) http://www.geoforall.org/webinars/ Cheers,   Brent Wood ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listin

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

2016-03-02 Thread Brent Wood
mp; not a dev by any means, just wait for the package except on Ubuntu (actually Mint) where my desire to play with the bleeding edge is enabled by the the nightly dev build - a wonderful resource! That said, I see that the response is to try & do better - we cannot ask for more :-) Cheer

Re: [Qgis-user] Assistance with high-level use case of QGIS for commercial use

2016-02-26 Thread Brent Wood
within. The point table is then deleted. You just need to wrap this up in your preferred scripting language to make it web accessible. HTH, Brent Wood From: Dave Tobias <terra2...@gmail.com> To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 11:26 AM Subject: [Qgis-us

[Qgis-user] Relations capabilities

2016-02-23 Thread Brent Wood
sues for users without create access in the database - which is most of them. Is work on this area (relations) of QGIS actively ongoing, or should I look for non-QGIS approaches? Thanks,   Brent Wood ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [Qgis-user] information

2016-02-19 Thread Brent Wood
labelled ticks on the map frame which are in lat/long. You can also choose to use decimal degrees, degrees with decimal minutes, optional NSEW suffixes, etc. This gives you a locally projected map labelled with degrees. I hope this helps, Cheers Brent Wood From: Gill Weyman <g

[Qgis-user] Dev nightly upgrade plugin dependency issue

2016-02-11 Thread Brent Wood
suggestions? Thanks... Brent Wood ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] adding points within polygons

2016-02-08 Thread Brent Wood
, such as Postgis or Spatiallite, and join the data there to be used in QGIS. A collection of files does not provide the power of a database for managing data, even when accessed by QGIS. Well managed data is the foundation your analysis, model or GIS sits on... Cheers Brent Wood From

Re: [Qgis-user] adding points within polygons

2016-02-08 Thread Brent Wood
From: rsweeny <rswe...@mun.ca> To: Brent Wood <pcr...@yahoo.com>; "qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 7:54 AM Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] adding points within polygons Brent So kind of you to respond. I a

Re: [Qgis-user] Adding Points by Coordinates

2016-02-07 Thread Brent Wood
column names (usually a good idea), the CRS, which columns to use for X & Y coords and tick the "watch file" box to refresh when new lines are added. No real need to build such a tool into QGIS when this works so well. Cheers,   Brent Wood From: Grant Boxer <box...@iinet.

Re: [Qgis-user] postgis/gresql views

2015-12-09 Thread Brent Wood
w categorised data in QGIS, or create Postgis views in Postgis from QGIS:"Ideally I'd like to be able to create labels and views from within qgis ..." Unless I understand your problem better, I can't offer useful advice. Cheers Brent Wood From: Matt Boyd <mattsli...@gmail

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 2.12 packaging for Ubuntu 14.04?

2015-11-01 Thread Brent Wood
Sweet - That makes sense. I was getting confused with which LTS - Ubuntu vs QGIS... Interestingly, while Synaptic thinks my 2.8.1 is up to date, the update manager provides me with 2.12... Much appreciated... Brent Wood From: G. Allegri <gioha...@gmail.com> To: qgis-user <

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 2.12 packaging for Ubuntu 14.04?

2015-11-01 Thread Brent Wood
S" VERSION_ID="14.04" I have added the QGIS LTR repository & the ubuntugis unstable one, but still only get 2.8.1 listed when I try to update QGIS. The nightly dev version works though. Thanks Brent Wood From: G. Allegri <gioha...@gmail.com> To: Filipe Silva Dias <f

Re: [Qgis-user] Fwd: QGIS hardware recommendations?

2015-10-21 Thread Brent Wood
between these cpus in terms of performance - but simplistically, the more QGIS takes advantages of multiple cores, the more a FAST I7 is likely to work better. I would not go below I5@2.5Ghz for QGIS. Hope this helps... vague as it is, but performance is not a simple question... Cheers,   Brent Wood

Re: [Qgis-user] Removing artifacts in a created DEM

2015-10-18 Thread Brent Wood
you use, no one algorithm fits all datasets well, which is why there are so many of them! You may need to experiment with the algorithm (command) and parameters (including grid increment size) which give the "best" result - ie: the one you like most :-) Cheers,   Brent Wood From: N

Re: [Qgis-user] (no subject)

2015-10-17 Thread Brent Wood
read these, but QGIS can. Open the png image you just saved as a new raster layer in QGIS, & then save it as a Gtiff format image. This should create a geotiff of the map that you can read with Avenza. Cheers, Brent Wood From: Pony Express <ponyexpr...@icqmail.com> To: qgis-user@lists.os

Re: [Qgis-user] Where can I get a shapefile made from a table of co-ordinates to map a bird monitoring project ?

2015-08-11 Thread Brent Wood
as a shapefile. Brent Wood From: Stephen Routledge r...@netc.net.au To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 7:09 PM Subject: [Qgis-user] Where can I get a shapefile made from a table of co-ordinates to map a bird monitoring project ? Dear Qgis list, Where can I get

Re: [Qgis-user] Organic heatmap outter contour, and making it look better

2015-07-25 Thread Brent Wood
Generic Mapping Tools (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu) can do all you want, fully scripted: surface, triangulate, xyz2grd, greenspline can all generate a grid from scattered point data, depending just how you want it done gridhisteq can normalise it if requiredgrdimage will turn it into a

Re: [Qgis-user] Windows only, QGIS geoprocessing path bug?

2015-07-03 Thread Brent Wood
That seems to be the path to scripts, not the binary. All was set up OK in QGIS, but it uses system, not user path (Windows has 2 PATH environment variables) Adding the R bin folder to the Windows user (not system) PATH variable QGIS works fine. Thanks Brent Wood From: Bo Victor

[Qgis-user] Windows only, QGIS geoprocessing path bug?

2015-07-01 Thread Brent Wood
QGIS should be checking both paths to locate external executable files. Is it reasonable to file a bug for this? Thanks Brent Wood ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

[Qgis-user] Live DVD advice

2015-06-27 Thread Brent Wood
assume that tiles will be used. Does anyone have any advice as to how I might best do this? Thanks, Brent Wood ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] Live DVD advice

2015-06-27 Thread Brent Wood
To: Brent Wood pcr...@pcreso.com; Qgis-user List qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org; Mapserver-users mapserver-us...@lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions disc...@lists.osgeo.org; Nzopengis nzopen...@googlegroups.com; Live-demo live-d...@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [Qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] Local Government for QGIS

2015-06-18 Thread Brent Wood
See the DMS Intramaps product - Postgis/Mapserver/QGIS stack plus Intramaps web viewer, supports SQL Server instead of Postgis if required,  Being well received among smaller councils in New Zealand, and even some large government agencies. http://mapsolutions.com.au/

Re: [Qgis-user] Local Government for QGIS

2015-06-15 Thread Brent Wood
training.) Brent Wood From: Chris Buckmaster chris.buckmas...@runnymede.gov.uk To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Local Government for QGIS #yiv6982424574 #yiv6982424574 -- _filtered #yiv6982424574 {font

[Qgis-user] American Red Cross offers QGIS training

2015-06-05 Thread Brent Wood
Things are very positive for Open Source (or at least QGIS) when the Red Cross joins all the other institutions supporting training users. I think, with good reason!! http://americanredcross.github.io/QGIS_Training/ Cheers,   Brent Wood ___ Qgis

Re: [Qgis-user] Help reusing QGIS action

2015-06-02 Thread Brent Wood
. Bernhard Am 02.06.2015 um 01:06 schrieb Brent Wood: Hi, I can create an action on a biodatabase: the site data is shown on the map, and an action created that will retrieve and dispaly a sorted list of the species identified at that site. This works well, as a bash script for Linux

[Qgis-user] Help reusing QGIS action

2015-06-01 Thread Brent Wood
a ticket for this? Any suggestions appreciated! Thanks Brent Wood ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] live tracking problem

2015-03-17 Thread Brent Wood
/GPS/Mint is a viable one. Brent Wood From: Ramon Andiñach cust...@westnet.com.au To: qgis-user List qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 2:50 AM Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] live tracking problem Just in case I have not been clear. 1. My problem is with live

Re: [Qgis-user] SQL to update table

2015-03-14 Thread Brent Wood
than Spatialite, which would use ' instead of to define strings, so:update mc-roadsegs Set RFROMHN = '' Where RFROMHN is null;) HTH,   Brent Wood From: Chuck Young wylie1...@gmail.com To: Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 10:57 AM Subject: [Qgis-user] SQL to update

[Qgis-user] Free online QGIS training

2015-02-21 Thread Brent Wood
/browse/delmarcollege/courses/introduction-to-geospatial-technology-1 Cheers,   Brent Wood ( yes, I do work at NIWA :-) ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

[Qgis-user] Help: Installed plugins not visible?

2015-02-19 Thread Brent Wood
get these working? Thanks,   Brent Wood ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] lat/log grid

2015-02-04 Thread Brent Wood
Hi, This symbol library seems something that I, perhaps others, would find useful in QGIS. Does anyone have any idea how this could be imported into QGIS? http://blog.gvsig.org/2015/02/02/gvsig-2-1-symbol-libray-for-climatology/   Thanks,    Brent Wood

Re: [Qgis-user] lat/log grid

2015-02-01 Thread Brent Wood
Hi Kathleen, NIWA in New Zealand also needed this sort of capability, paid Nyall Dawson (downunder QGIS developer) to implement improved lat/long grids annotations to the QGIS map/print composer (he did a great job!) - but if you want the grid as a map layer, then you'll need to follow some

Re: [Qgis-user] Unable to add values to text string attributes

2015-01-30 Thread Brent Wood
) then apply this to all or selected columns via the two buttons... HTH,    Brent Wood From: Michael Grosberg grosberg.mich...@gmail.com To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 3:52 AM Subject: [Qgis-user] Unable to add values to text string attributes so, umm

Re: [Qgis-user] Creating oblique views of QGIS layers

2015-01-18 Thread Brent Wood
complicated... the nature of the beast. QGIS (or GDAL) can save your QGIS vector layers in GMT format, rasters can also be converted to a format GMT can render. Brent Wood From: Zoltan Szecsei zolt...@geograph.co.za To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Monday

Re: [Qgis-user] Storing data to postgis from Qgis

2014-12-30 Thread Brent Wood
read it, at least some of what you are trying to do could also be done via a QGIS action, as a system call with SQL statements data parameters, especially with known table names, etc. Brent Wood From: David Kramer dav...@gmail.com To: Leknín Řepánek godzilalal...@gmail.com Cc: qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 2.6 installation

2014-11-19 Thread Brent Wood
use by 100Mb, about 1/2 the on disk data size. Another Open Source application I was trialling used 400Mb to do the same thing. Brent Wood From: padmadevi.subraman...@cognizant.com padmadevi.subraman...@cognizant.com To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 8:08

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 2.6 installation

2014-11-19 Thread Brent Wood
watersheds.model|Error in algorithm name: saga:catchmentareaparallel ALGORITHM If you are not, you might try running it with the Python console open? Brent Wood From: padmadevi.subraman...@cognizant.com padmadevi.subraman...@cognizant.com To: pcr...@pcreso.com Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [Qgis-user] Printing with OSM Tiles

2014-11-05 Thread Brent Wood
Using the virtual GDAL layer to access OSM layers, as below, I don't think QGIS is applying it's proxy server settings, GDAL doesn't have any. Can anyone explain how I can set this up to use a proxy server as a QGIS map layer? GDAL_WMS     Service name=TMS    

Re: [Qgis-user] Printing with OSM Tiles

2014-11-03 Thread Brent Wood
Hmmm... Just tried opening the XML file in QGIS as described but get the error msg: p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }/home/baw/qgis/qgis_osm.xml is not a supported raster data sourceGDALWMS: Bad projection specified. If you try this you might use EPSG:3857 instead. Brent Wood

Re: [Qgis-user] How to store spatial information of various geometry types (point, line, polygon) in one place?

2014-08-29 Thread Brent Wood
I agree - that approach to managing spatial data was last century's one. I recommend you use a spatially enabled database to manage spatial data . as many geometries/geographies as you want per feature. We have polygons with a point label location, linestrings with start finish timestamps as

[Qgis-user] QGIS WMS/T problem

2014-08-20 Thread Brent Wood
I have a colleage using QGIS with a problem accessing some local ESRI WMS/T services: * Dunedin City Council: http://apps.dunedin.govt.nz/arcgis/rest/services/Public/PhotoCache2013/MapServer/WMTS * Otago Regional Council:

Re: [Qgis-user] print composer

2014-08-17 Thread Brent Wood
If you can get by by saving the map canvas rather than exporting via the print composer - under project, choose save as image. Brent Wood From: daniel pinto daniel.ar.pi...@gmail.com To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2014 9:02 PM Subject

[Qgis-user] QGIS reprojection broken?

2014-08-07 Thread Brent Wood
Hi, Apologies for an attachment to a list email, but I kept it small... The attached  image shows some Antarctic data (grounding line ice shelf extent) with a polygon overlayed. I created the polygon by editing a text (csv) file with lat/longs: x,y 150,-60 150,-85 255,-85 255,-60 I opened

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS reprojection broken?

2014-08-07 Thread Brent Wood
, if it is not in the menu? Thanks   Brent From: Nyall Dawson nyall.daw...@gmail.com To: Brent Wood pcr...@pcreso.com Cc: qgis-user qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Friday, August 8, 2014 1:57 PM Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS reprojection broken? Hi Brent, Try switching

Re: [Qgis-user] Vortex coordinates

2014-07-27 Thread Brent Wood
the field separator is a space, this is easily fixed in any text editor if you require a comma, or you can use Linux commands like sed or tr to do this. HTH,     Brent Wood             Grep for Windows grep {whatisit} View on gnuwin32.sourceforge.net Preview by Yahoo   # @VGMT1.0

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