Re: [Qgis-user] How to identify a raster on the map?

2008-01-14 Thread Aaron Racicot
FYI, http://blog.qgis.org/?q=node/104 A ++ Aaron Racicot - GIS Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ z - p u l l e y pobox 1614 langley wa 98260 www.reprojected.com

Re: [Qgis-user] How to identify a raster on the map?

2008-01-14 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi Aaron I tried out your plugin - works great! Regards Tim 2008/1/14, Aaron Racicot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FYI, http://blog.qgis.org/?q=node/104 A ++ Aaron Racicot - GIS Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Qgis-user] How to identify a raster on the map?

2008-01-14 Thread Martin Dobias
On Jan 14, 2008 9:36 PM, Aaron Racicot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://blog.qgis.org/?q=node/104 Aaron, a note about the implementation: in fact you don't need to implement RasterInfoTool - there's QgsMapToolEmitPoint in gui iibrary which does the same thing :-) Moreover, when reimplementing

Re: [Qgis-user] How to identify a raster on the map?

2008-01-14 Thread Aaron Racicot
Martin, Thanks for the advice... always welcome and look forward to more! I went ahead and updated the activate and deactivate to call the QgsMapTool.activate(self) and QgsMapTool.deactivate(self) respectively. For now I am just going to leave this as an implementation of a QgsMapTool and will

Re: [Qgis-user] How to identify a raster on the map?

2008-01-11 Thread Richard Duivenvoorde
Hi Andrea, how did you load these rasters? Every raster in a layer (so you have actually 200 layers)? Or did you generate a tileindex file using gdaltindex and are you serving the rasterimages using mapserver? If the first: it's fun to write a simple python plugin for that, if needed I can

[Qgis-user] How to identify a raster on the map?

2008-01-10 Thread andrea pacifici
Hi, I have a Qgis-GRASS GIS project containing more than 200 rasters: it is a GIS project about a portion of Mars (yes... the planet!). Often, I need to identify the name of one of such rasters just by clicking on it on the map. Which is the best way to do this with Qgis? The Identify button give

Re: [Qgis-user] How to identify a raster on the map?

2008-01-10 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi Andrea The best way to do this would probably to use the gdal shptille utility to build a shapefile that contains indexes to each image.See http://www.gdal.org/gdaltindex.html A plugin like you envisage should be possible but none has been written yet. Regards Tim 2008/1/10, andrea