Re: [Qgis-user] Activating ESRI geodatabase (.gdb) write mode in QGIS, OGR2OGR or Python

2022-04-20 Thread Saulteau Don via Qgis-user
I think in the osgeo4w installer you just have to install the gdal-filegdb package for that driver. Donovan On Wed., Apr. 20, 2022, 18:11 Nicolas Cadieux via Qgis-user, < qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I am in a bit of a bind. I am basically trying to figure out a way to >

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS server in professional use?

2021-10-17 Thread Saulteau Don
I haven't had major issues getting a QGIS map server deployed on apache, but sometimes there would be a thing or two not included in the step-by-step because individual setups can be different and also require a diverse level of knowledge and skill sets. Consider that to get it going you likely

Re: [Qgis-user] Building Historical Maps

2021-07-24 Thread Saulteau Don
I did a timeline kind of showing that but for all of Canada. It was part of a workshop doing a talk on territorial evolution and treaties. It uses the data from the series of maps at

Re: [Qgis-user] Compiling messages Qgis 3.18.3

2021-06-11 Thread Saulteau Don
- |diff --git > a/src/core/proj/qgscoordinatereferencesystem.cpp > b/src/core/proj/qgscoordinatereferencesystem.cpp |index > 77c7081e455d..4cba529b89de 100644 |--- > a/src/core/proj/qgscoordinatereferencesystem.cpp |+++ > b/src/core/proj/qgscoordinatereferencesystem.cp

Re: [Qgis-user] Compiling messages Qgis 3.18.3

2021-06-10 Thread Saulteau Don
The patch resolved almost all of them! It's left a single CRS that couldn't be: Could not execute: INSERT INTO tbl_srs(srs_id, description,projection_acronym,ellipsoid_acronym,parameters,srid,auth_name,auth_id,is_geo,deprecated) VALUES (63 321, 'Timbalai 1948 / RSO Sarawak LSD

Re: [Qgis-user] Primer about user management btw Postgis and QGIS

2020-04-22 Thread Saulteau Don
Ensure that at a minimum you have, CONNECT for the database USAGE of the schema SELECT for the table SELECT, USAGE on the sequence(s) for that table On Wed., Apr. 22, 2020, 14:08 Bill Williamson, wrote: > Hello QGIS workers, > > Could I ask if there is a guide to managing user's accessing

Re: [Qgis-user] sharing qgis project networking

2020-03-09 Thread Saulteau Don
n > remote connection)? > Is just the name, the user and password owners of the database? > Regards. > > [image: image.png] > > > > > El sáb., 7 de mar. de 2020 a la(s) 13:40, Saulteau Don ( > sault@gmail.com) escribió: > >> Can you explain the workflow a li

Re: [Qgis-user] sharing qgis project networking

2020-03-07 Thread Saulteau Don
Can you explain the workflow a little bit? For example, you can have a postgresql database to host the project[1] that other users can access over the network... Permissions for changing the master project could be controlled by the database and maybe even setup triggers to track any changes to

Re: [Qgis-user] Opening attribute table for large datasets

2019-06-12 Thread Saulteau Don
Hi William, fellow BC'er here. One thing you can do is change the default behaviour, like instead of loading all features, try loading only features visible on map (or selected features). Can change that in Settings > Options then the Data Source tab. You'll see an "attribute table behavior"

Re: [Qgis-user] adding a vertex in the middle of the edge of a polygon

2019-06-03 Thread Saulteau Don
ium=email_source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email_source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 3:16 PM Saulteau Don wrote: > I

[Qgis-user] adding a vertex in the middle of the edge of a polygon

2019-05-31 Thread Saulteau Don
I was reading the docs on the Vertex Tool in QGIS 3.6.3. https://docs.qgis.org/3.4/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/editing_geometry_attributes.html#basic-operations It mentions that to add a new vertex, I simply need to double-click the line and it will add one using the vertex tool. I

[Qgis-user] drop shadow blur radius limit

2019-03-11 Thread Saulteau Don
I was trying to apply a drop shadow to a polygon using the "draw effects" in the symbology tab but noticed the blur radius has a hard coded limit of 16. The map i'm producing is fairly large (60"x60") and needed a higher value like 30-40 to make it appear nice and noticeable when exported and

Re: [Qgis-user] empty place holder for categorized values?

2019-02-23 Thread Saulteau Don
Ah k, I see its usefulness now! Was recently styling a roads datasets with a couple dozen categories. Definitely helped identify ones I needed to include in some grouping or rule. On Sat, Feb 23, 2019, 01:01 Richard Duivenvoorde, wrote: > On 23/02/2019 07.05, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > > It's a

[Qgis-user] empty place holder for categorized values?

2019-02-22 Thread Saulteau Don
Afternoon everyone! I've always been curious why, when styling a vector layer using categories, there's an entry at the bottom of the list that is always empty with 0 features. In 3.6 it comes in with the value "all other features". Does it serve some purpose that I'm missing? I often just

Re: [Qgis-user] can't find processing in QGIS 3.4.4 LTR

2019-01-29 Thread Saulteau Don
Hey Janneke, I use linux so the menus might be a little different for you. But at the top menus, look for Settings > Panels > Processing Toolbox Panel On Windows the Panels sub-menu might be in another place like View instead of Settings. Another easy way to turn on the processing toolbox is to

Re: [Qgis-user] QGOS maps fort Garmin GPS

2017-03-05 Thread Saulteau Don
i also have a garmin 76csx and have used for a long time, still and for closely for the same (original post) purpose, and there are some hard limitations in the device regarding cartographic needs you need to consider... first, that device doesn't really support the new garmin raster type .map

Re: [Qgis-user] Data Defined operation

2017-02-07 Thread Saulteau Don
It says it wants to see the colour value as a string. So in your case, you can use a CASE THEN ELSE END statement to get there. CASE WHEN "Type" = 'SL' THEN '255,0,0,100' END There the numbers represent 'red,green,blue,alpha' Alpha is the transparency value. 0 is completely transparent and 100

Re: [Qgis-user] Append in Import Vector into PostGIS didn't work

2016-10-13 Thread Saulteau Don
Does it work with the -update flag as well as keeping the -append flag? On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Frederico dos Santos Soares < fss...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everybody, > I have some problems with the "Import Vector into PostGIS" in processing > tool. > > I looked for, but I didn't find

Re: [Qgis-user] vector shp from NAD83 (CSRS98) to UTM WGS84

2016-04-01 Thread Saulteau Don
Ah, that's right, forgot to mention, that's why I use the provincial GSB[1] in BC for CSRS transformations. The license is a little different =) You have to get written permission (could be via email) to use the GSB in that FTP. >From the license[2]: "The NTv2 SOFTWARE, GIRD SHIFT FILES and

Re: [Qgis-user] vector shp from NAD83 (CSRS98) to UTM WGS84

2016-04-01 Thread Saulteau Don
The NTv2 GSB[1] for Canada is shared under the "Open Government License - Canada"[2]. I made a request some years ago and they did it! So it's definitely a good step forward. I'm not a license guru so not sure if it can be packaged and redistributed with FOSS (ie, QGIS or proj). I know for

Re: [Qgis-user] Couldn't load SIP module.

2015-06-01 Thread Saulteau Don
Hey, You can try a couple things. This error rears its ugly head all the time. Things to try: 1.) Recompile the following packages from the ABS in the following order: sip, pyqt4, qscintilla a) Then recompile QGIS. 2.) Check the sources portion of the PKGBUILD and see if it's because of

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 64-bit, Processing Toolbox and Grass 7

2015-04-14 Thread Saulteau Don
There's a crowdfunding campaign[1] underway to get QGIS updated for GRASS 7. So yes, like Jose pointed out, some of the grass7 tools in processing will have errors. You can compile QGIS without any of the cmake options for GRASS, because I think those are only if you want to have the GRASS

Re: [Qgis-user] 2.6 very slow to render

2014-11-25 Thread Saulteau Don
??? ) Data storage is small SHP files (100 points) and a series of raster images (300kB). Same files that were being used in 1.8. Brett *From:* qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Saulteau Don *Sent:* Tuesday, 25 November 2014 1:06 PM

Re: [Qgis-user] Select a line or polygon to cut and paste to a new layer

2014-11-25 Thread Saulteau Don
There's an answer on GISse (http://gis.stackexchange.com/a/20967/1297) that says the following: 1. Start a edit session on both layers that you want to do the copy/paste against. 2. Use the Select feature by rectangle tool to select the feature (copy from). 3. Click the Copy

Re: [Qgis-user] 2.6 very slow to render

2014-11-24 Thread Saulteau Don
One thing you can check for is if there is a faulty plugin causing the issue. Try backing up your .qgis2 folder (ie, rename to .qgis2.backup) Then relaunch QGIS 2.6 and test again. What's the data storage format? Are they spatialite, postgis, shapefiles, etc? Donovan On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at

Re: [Qgis-user] Connecting to ArcSDE data in QGIS 2.4

2014-10-30 Thread Saulteau Don
Hey Chris, There was an answer on the GIS SE that went over some of the steps involved. Might help, http://gis.stackexchange.com/a/8419/1297 Donovan On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Chris Buckmaster chris.buckmas...@runnymede.gov.uk wrote: Hi I have an ArcSDE database and would like to

Re: [Qgis-user] two problems

2014-08-08 Thread Saulteau Don
That sip error has me stumped, the only thing I could guess is that for some reason QGIS compiled against python3 and maybe sip for python3 is not installed. It should of built against python2. Do you get anything that looks useful in an strace when starting QGIS from the command line? I'd

Re: [Qgis-user] Newbie issue with layers

2014-08-08 Thread Saulteau Don
Hey Mary, This sounds like it could be a projection issue. Can you see if they actually overlap? You can check that quickly by highlighting (left click) the layer in the layer list, then go to View - Zoom To Layer Do that for both layers and see if the Zoom to Layer takes you different places.

Re: [Qgis-user] TAB file export

2014-06-11 Thread Saulteau Don
Ross On 11/06/14 06:23, Brett Adams wrote: I keep getting an error Export to vector file failed. Error: Feature write errors: Feature creation error (OGR error: Failed writing geometry for feature id 1 in I usually get that error when some of the shapefile features

Re: [Qgis-user] Tools of Grass and SAGA do not work

2014-04-09 Thread Saulteau Don
Hi Andres, You probably just have to install GRASS [1] and SAGA [2] because those aren't included with QGIS. They are entirely separate software packages =) Then you will probably have to configure the processing toolbox [3] so that the GRASS and SAGA tools can be used. Those can be found in the

Re: [Qgis-user] IntraMaps Roam - Linux version

2014-03-29 Thread Saulteau Don
I'm sure most will figure this out, but it's actually ./build_linux.sh for the first script =) Arch Linux users have to make some minor changes to the scripts because python is actually a reference to python3 (system default for Arch Linux). Changing python to python2 in the scripts is good

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem opening .GDB (v 10.1) using QGIS

2014-03-27 Thread Saulteau Don
This is because something changed in ArcGIS = 10.x on how they apply the BC Albers projection (EPSG:3005). Those datasets now have to be opened in ArcGIS and the projection has to be Defined as BC Albers, because it's using PCS_Albers (projection name), gdal sees this as a custom projection so it

Re: [Qgis-user] QspatiaLite plugin 4.1.1 error message

2014-03-19 Thread Saulteau Don
I think for plugin issues, you will have better luck notifying the plugin maintainer or seeing if it's already reported in their issue tracker. https://code.google.com/p/qspatialite/issues/list is where you can see that specific bug tracker for the qspatialite plugin. FYI, 4.1.1 looks like a

Re: [Qgis-user] Can some one help me to convert a .bil file in a shape file?

2014-02-17 Thread Saulteau Don
On 2/17/2014 3:55 PM, NYA Edouard wrote: The bil file es very heavy (more than 1800 MB), so I need to convert the file so that I can trim it easily to process it for the project. Any idea? Thanks in advance You can use gdalwarp from the raster menu to convert the image to whatever format you

Re: [Qgis-user] layers have sometimes have to be turned on and, off and on again to show up

2014-02-11 Thread Saulteau Don
On 2/11/2014 8:01 AM, Anita Graser wrote: I've seen this happen as well. I think it happens both on Windows and Ubuntu - but certainly on Ubuntu. The issue seems to appear when you change a layer's visibility in the layer list while the map is still being rendered. QGIS ignores the change you

Re: [Qgis-user] How to use Orfeo Toolbox tools in QGIS?

2014-02-06 Thread Saulteau Don
From what I've heard, you can use the 32-bit installer to install just orfeo into the 64bit OSGeo4W directory in C:\ or wherever. Those should run in 64-bit Windows with QGIS. Donovan On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Travis Kroger tjkro...@ucdavis.edu wrote: I asked about this before, but I

Re: [Qgis-user] configuración otb y grass

2014-01-20 Thread Saulteau Don
I think \xf3 is the ascii code for ó as seen at http://daleswanson.org/ascii.htm Maybe the algorithm is having trouble interpreting that character if it's in any of the file names or the path to those files. Worst case, you would have to remove that from all your filenames, but maybe it can be

Re: [Qgis-user] TimeManager pluggin error

2014-01-17 Thread Saulteau Don
IIRC, you actually have to store the Date fields as String type instead then tell the TimeManager what format they are in (ie, -MM-DD, etc...). Donovan On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Carlos Cerdán sig.up...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list: OS: Ubuntu 12.04 (and Windows 7) QGIS 2.0.1

Re: [Qgis-user] Newbie - QGIS won't recongize shp files, comp turns shp files into pdfs

2014-01-06 Thread Saulteau Don
That file opened fine for me (Tunisia Admin Boundaries) in qgis. Here's what I did. 1.) Download that zipfile of the Tunisian Admin Boundaries 2.) Open QGIS. 3.) Switch to Browser panel near bottom left of window (this is inside the layers panel). 4.) Browse to the folder where the TUN_adm.zip

Re: [Qgis-user] New dialog when opening layer with a different CRS

2014-01-03 Thread Saulteau Don
That's so a user can apply datum transformations from one coordinate system to another (ie, NAD27 - NAD83 - NAD83(CSRS)). They are usually compiled into Proj4 through grid shift binary files (.gsb) often available from federal or provincial and local agencies. For example, in British Columbia, a

Re: [Qgis-user] Couldn't load plugin 'processing' from...

2013-12-05 Thread Saulteau Don
I wonder if the ArcGIS Python references in the Path are causing conflicts? On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Guido Stein gst...@appgeo.com wrote: Hello, I have tried installing the latest QGIS 64bit application using both the standalone and the osgeo4w packages and in both cases I get the

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS - Georeferencer PDF Report RMSE Values

2013-11-28 Thread Saulteau Don
I found an explanation of RMSE from this GIS.se question, but not sure how QGIS does it (I can't read source code yet =P) An Explanation of RMSE for Dummies http://gis.stackexchange.com/a/2/1297 On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Wesley Roberts jwesrobe...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Qgis users,

Re: [Qgis-user] configuring OTB toolbox

2013-11-14 Thread Saulteau Don
I think for now, if you really need orfeo toolbox, I think Paolo C. mentioned that the orfeo applications are still available in the 32bit installer from OSGeo4W. There are two 32 bit installers, the new one and the old one - I know that the old 32 bit installer has orfeo but not sure if the new

Re: [Qgis-user] Configuring the OTB toolbox?

2013-11-07 Thread Saulteau Don
Hey Johanna, I just got OTB working today. Here's what I did, because I did notice that it isn't installed through the Stand Alone QGIS installer or the 64bit OSGeo4W packager. Download both: (1) otb-bin and (2) otb-python tar.bz2 files from http://orfeo-toolbox.org/packages/nightly/latest These

[Qgis-user] EPSG:3987 is recognized in QGIS 2.0.1 on Windows 8.1 but not Arch Linux

2013-11-05 Thread Saulteau Don
Evening list, I've got some shapefiles that came without a .prj component but the data source sent me confirmation of the proj details and I think I've confirmed that the data was projected using EPSG:3978 (NAD83 / Canada Atlas Lambert). I've zipped them in my dropbox at https://db.tt/EO53JsUR

Re: [Qgis-user] qgis web client - blank page but with 200 returns from apache

2013-11-04 Thread Saulteau Don
bernhard.stro...@jena.de wrote: Hi, looks like you did not configure GlobalOptions.js Bernhard Am 02.11.2013 05:38, schrieb Saulteau Don: The qgis web client (http://54.245.123.168/maps/abwells) is giving me a blank page from my wms at http://54.245.123.168/wms/abwells?SERVICE=WMSVERSION

[Qgis-user] qgis web client - blank page but with 200 returns from apache

2013-11-01 Thread Saulteau Don
The qgis web client (http://54.245.123.168/maps/abwells) is giving me a blank page from my wms at http://54.245.123.168/wms/abwells?SERVICE=WMSVERSION=1.3.0REQUEST=GetCapabilities It's just a test site so nothing fancy - playing with drop shadows and such. You can use guest//guest as the

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 2.0 on openSUSE 12.3 - Processing Plugin

2013-10-28 Thread Saulteau Don
I haven't used qgis on opensuse for a while, but on the version I'm using in Arch Linux, python-qscintilla is a required dependency now because of the processing toolbox. So once qgis is compiled against that, it should work. On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kal...@gmail.com

Re: [Qgis-user] ESRI-FileGDB: Is this really meant to be usable?

2013-10-01 Thread Saulteau Don
I've had some troubles opening upgraded FileGDB, so one thing to also check is that it's not an upgraded FileGDB. I get better luck creating a new empty =v10.0 FileGDB then importing the old data into it. Donovan On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Even Rouault even.roua...@mines-paris.orgwrote:

Re: [Qgis-user] installation problem with OSGeo4W Advanced Installer under windows 7

2013-09-25 Thread Saulteau Don
That sounds like a permissions error. Try right clicking the osgeo4w-setup.exe and Launch as Administrator. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Anne Quesnel aques...@univ-lille2.fr wrote: Dear all, objet: installation problem for advanced GIS under windows 7 After several tests with the

Re: [Qgis-user] Announcing the release of QGIS 2.0

2013-09-21 Thread Saulteau Don
And I only get that error on Windows 8, not Win7 using the osgeo4w installer. On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Lester Anderson arctica1...@gmail.com wrote: Cheers nathan. Yes it does still function and is a non-critical error. Lester On 21 September 2013 08:41, Nathan Woodrow

Re: [Qgis-user] Testing OSGeo4W 64bit

2013-08-28 Thread Saulteau Don
I've been placing mine in the osgeo4w trac so far. http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/371 http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/370 On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Ramon Andiñach cust...@westnet.com.au wrote: Is there a preference where feedback should go? one of the mailing lists? OSgeo

Re: [Qgis-user] Error compiling the qgis-server

2013-08-28 Thread Saulteau Don
...@gmail.com wrote: sorry, I have nt any python knowledgment. How can I get the SIP version from python inside ? On 28/08/2013 03:20, Saulteau Don wrote: There's been a bug filed at http://hub.qgis.org/issues/8507 that looks related. What version of SIP are you running? On arch linux, it fails

Re: [Qgis-user] ERROR Compiling QGIS 1.8 on Arch after updated python2-sip

2013-08-27 Thread Saulteau Don
to a certain sip version? I did get a error in ccmake about qscintilla and sip using different sip api's (10 vs 10.1 if I recall correctly). I don't feel like downgrading the entire QT stack... Should we file a bug? Best, Vincent. On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 20:06:37 -0700 Saulteau Don sault

Re: [Qgis-user] Error compiling the qgis-server

2013-08-27 Thread Saulteau Don
There's been a bug filed at http://hub.qgis.org/issues/8507 that looks related. What version of SIP are you running? On arch linux, it fails with python2-sip v4.15.1 after sip was updated. On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Andrea Peri aperi2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, try-ing to compile from last

[Qgis-user] ERROR Compiling QGIS 1.8 on Arch after updated python2-sip

2013-08-26 Thread Saulteau Don
I've been trying to compile QGIS 1.8 on Arch Linux x64 after python2-sip was updated and now there's an error at about 94% I think is related to the updated sip package but not sure. Scanning dependencies of target python_module_qgis_core [ 94%] Building CXX object