Re: [Qgis-user] Dissolve a line layer?

2012-06-08 Thread Richard Greenwood
ST_LineMerge(st_collect(wkb_geometry)) as wkb_geometry, name from road_segments group by name; -- Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com www.greenwoodmap.com ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org

[Qgis-user] unique id in postgis view

2012-06-17 Thread Richard Greenwood
dialog box that lists the columns in the view and explains why each is unsuitable. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Rich [1] http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/12233/in-postgis-is-it-possible-to-create-a-view-with-a-unique-id -- Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com

Re: [Qgis-user] Which android tablet

2012-07-12 Thread Richard Greenwood
* FOSS Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net == ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- Richard

Re: [Qgis-user] Labels

2021-08-23 Thread Richard Greenwood
Sure. Use the Expression builder. You get to it by press the ∑ button to the righ of the value drop down list. Then enter the fields in double quotes concatenated with +, for example: "Town" + "Date" If you need a space or other text, enclose it in single quotes. For example: "Town" + '

Re: [Qgis-user] Bug with GeoPackage and Expressions?

2021-07-29 Thread Richard Greenwood
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 2:08 PM C Hamilton wrote: > Thanks everyone for that explanation. This does complicate the ability to > set an expression filter in a plugin when it depends on the data source > type. I'm not sure what to do about that. > Convert both arguments to upper (or lower) case:

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

2021-10-17 Thread Richard Greenwood
Posting again without screenshot, which apparently caused my previous email to await moderator approval. Mats, I fired up a new Ubuntu 20.04 instance on AWS and did the following 5 steps which got me an XML capabilities document. # standard practice when starting a new instance sudo apt update

Re: [Qgis-user] Configuring QGIS server on Ubuntu 20.4

2021-10-02 Thread Richard Greenwood
On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 10:02 AM Mats Elfström wrote: > Hi! > Let me just recuperate that the goal for QGIS server is to be used as a > map and data server for webmaps on MapStore and to be harvestable by > Geonetwork for a metadata catalogue. MapStore and Geonetwork are running on > another

Re: [Qgis-user] Configuring QGIS server on Ubuntu 20.4

2021-10-03 Thread Richard Greenwood
I don't think that it's fair to suggest that QGIS Server isn't ready for prime time based on one user's difficulty with getting it set up. I am relatively new to QGIS and QGIS Server but I found the setup pretty straight forward and familiar, probably because I have used CGI, FastCGI and MapServer

Re: [Qgis-user] Configuring QGIS server on Ubuntu 20.4

2021-10-04 Thread Richard Greenwood
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 3:58 AM Mats Elfström wrote: > Hi Richard! > I should have mentioned that. The request you suggest gives a Not Found > response. > In a default configuration, the files in /cgi-bin/ would be available to all of the hosts on your server, but there are more than one places

Re: [Qgis-user] representation of angles in QGIS - recalculation to arithmetic values

2021-12-06 Thread Richard Greenwood
g = (450-m) - int((450-m) / 360) * 360 where m = mathematical angle (0 east, anti-clockwise) and g = geographic angle (0 north, clockwise) On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 11:02 AM wrote: > Dear colleagues on the QGIS user list, > > have an urgent problem with the representation of arrows with a data >

Re: [Qgis-user] importing dwg/dxf

2021-11-21 Thread Richard Greenwood
Any AutoCAD drawing *can* be on real world coordinates. They're often not because no real world coordinates were readily available for the project and there wasn't a compelling need for real world coordinates. AutoCAD Map3D and subsequent versions with different names like "Civil 3D" have support

[Qgis-user] user defined format for new bearing tool?

2021-11-02 Thread Richard Greenwood
Is it possible for a user to add a format to the new bearing tool in 3.22? Cadastral descriptions in the United States are usually expressed in degrees, minutes, seconds in four quadrants e.g. N 45°27'18"W or S 15°07'54"E, etc. I have a SQL expression below that I use for labeling in that

Re: [Qgis-user] Missing menu items in 3.22

2021-10-28 Thread Richard Greenwood
> > Regards, > Harrissou > > Le jeu. 28 oct. 2021 à 19:10, Richard Greenwood < > richard.greenw...@gmail.com> a écrit : > >> I'm on QGIS 3.22 from the qgis.org/ubuntu repo running on Linux Mint >> 20.2. I didn't take any special action to get on 3.22, I just cli

[Qgis-user] Missing menu items in 3.22

2021-10-28 Thread Richard Greenwood
I'm on QGIS 3.22 from the qgis.org/ubuntu repo running on Linux Mint 20.2. I didn't take any special action to get on 3.22, I just clicked "Install Updates" in the update manager. My Vector menu does not have any items in it and I no longer have a Processing menu nor do I see an option to show the

Re: [Qgis-user] user defined format for new bearing tool?

2021-11-03 Thread Richard Greenwood
a setting option to display in a DMS format. Give it a try > and let me know whether you think it would be helpful to include a DMS > format. > > Thanks, > > Calvin > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 9:56 AM Richard Greenwood < > richard.greenw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >&

Re: [Qgis-user] MapInfo export issue

2021-12-01 Thread Richard Greenwood
I don't know if this is related or helpful, but GDAL 3.0 doesn't produce MapInfo TAB files with the correct coordinate system when the coordinate system is in feet. GDAL 3.3 and 3.4 do work. A suggestion would be to install GDAL 3.3 or 3.4 and use ogr2ogr -f "MapInfo file" dest source On Wed,

[Qgis-user] 3.20.1 fails on Linux Mint

2021-07-21 Thread Richard Greenwood
I just upgraded from 3.20.0 to 3.20.1 on Linux Mint 20.1. Qgis doesn't start, or more accurately, I don't get a GUI interface. I can see the qgis.bin process running and using 100% of one core, so I guess it's hung. I uninstalled, reinstalled, rebooted, same result. Suggestions? -- Richard W.

Re: [Qgis-user] 3.20.1 fails on Linux Mint

2021-07-21 Thread Richard Greenwood
Same here - removing ~/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/default/symbology-style.db fixes the issue. Many thanks! Rich On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 11:47 AM Fernando M. Roxo da Motta wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 13:05:14 -0400, Randal Hale > wrote: > > > > Removing the > >

Re: [Qgis-user] linux box accessing project-files on a windows server

2022-02-21 Thread Richard Greenwood
I did a quick test. I installed QGIS 3.22 on a Windows 7 computer, created a project. Switched to Linux Mint, used the file manager to navigate to the Windows computer, double clicked the project and it opened correctly. The path that QGIS displays in the properties/info panel is: Path

Re: [Qgis-user] Mosaic Datasets and Raster Catalogs in qGIS

2022-01-14 Thread Richard Greenwood
As Zoltan suggested, a .vrt is a good approach, but you will want overviews also so that you can zoom out. You can create overviews (aka pyramids) of .vrt files. Personally, I'd suggest creating one, or a few, big GeoTIFFs with internal or external overviews. I have a 4,400 sq mile (1,140,000

Re: [Qgis-user] installation - Linux - small problem with PREinstallation

2022-01-26 Thread Richard Greenwood
The "apt" package manager is looking for a 32 bit version of QGIS, which doesn't exist and which you don't want. Adjust your /etc/apt/sources.list to look something like: deb *[arch=amd64]* https://qgis.org/ubuntu-ltr focal main deb-src *[arch=amd64]* https://qgis.org/ubuntu-ltr focal

Re: [Qgis-user] shapefile import error

2022-03-03 Thread Richard Greenwood via Qgis-user
Do you have the "side car" files .shx and .dbf and possibly others? On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 9:31 AM David Witton wrote: > Hello > > I'm pointing the Data source Manager|Vector at a .shp file and getting the > error "Invalid Data Source". The file exists on an external drive, and the > path is

[Qgis-user] Merge Selected Features crash

2023-10-04 Thread Richard Greenwood via QGIS-User
I believe this is a bug but I'm posting here first in case I'm overlooking something obvious. Merge Selected Features is causing QGIS 3.32.3 to crash (close without showing errors). However the same operation on the same data in 3.28.11 doesn't crash. I copy features from a linestring or polygon

Re: [Qgis-user] Merge Selected Features crash

2023-10-05 Thread Richard Greenwood via QGIS-User
ls > > 0.2.0 > > QuickOSM > > 2.2.3 > > veloroutes_voies_vertes > > 1.0.0 > > tile_index_generator > > 1.0 > > qgis_resource_sharing > > 1.0.0 > > pluginbuilder3 > > 3.2.1 > > realcentroid > > 1.0.3 > > gribdownloader

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS-CH mini workshop on construction tools

2022-05-11 Thread Richard Greenwood via Qgis-user
Is a recording of the workshop available online? On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 2:46 AM Andreas Neumann via Qgis-user < qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Dear QGIS users, > > Tomorrow, Wed. May 11, 11:00 to 12:00am MET will be our QGIS-CH mini > workshop on QGIS construction tools instructed by Denis

Re: [Qgis-user] Dimensioning in QGIS

2022-06-25 Thread Richard Greenwood via Qgis-user
On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 10:00 AM David Strip via Qgis-user < qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > To the extent that anyone is interested in a discussion of adding CAD-like > dimensioning capabilities to Qgis: > > In a CAD model dimensional callouts present the user with information > about

[Qgis-user] Where is the georeferencer in 3.26

2022-06-30 Thread Richard Greenwood via Qgis-user
Has the raster>georeferencer menu item moved in 3.26? I can't find it in my raster menu. -- Richard W. Greenwood www.greenwoodmap.com ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] Where is the georeferencer in 3.26

2022-06-30 Thread Richard Greenwood via Qgis-user
Thanks so much. I should have seen that myself! On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 11:16 AM Sebastian Gutwein wrote: > Yes - because they added vector georeferencing it is now under the Layer > menu. > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 1:04 PM Richard Greenwood via Qgis-user < > qgis-user@list

[Qgis-user] how to convert a circular string into a standard linestring?

2022-06-14 Thread Richard Greenwood via Qgis-user
I used the Edit menu function "add Circular String" and got just what I wanted. But how can I convert it into a regular linestring with a bunch of vertices that approximate the curve? Specifically, I need to be able to trace the curve with the Split Features tool and trace it when drawing a

Re: [Qgis-user] how to convert a circular string into a standard linestring?

2022-06-14 Thread Richard Greenwood via Qgis-user
2/en/docs/user_manual/processing_algs/qgis/vectorgeometry.html#densify-by-count > > The tools can be used as in-place mode, so you can select a specific > feature are run the tools without creating a new layer. > > > Alexandre Neto > Users support > www.qcooperative.net > >

Re: [Qgis-user] how to convert a circular string into a standard linestring?

2022-06-14 Thread Richard Greenwood via Qgis-user
t is .shp, then, they will be converted > automatically. > > Nicolas Cadieux > https://gitlab.com/njacadieux > > Le 14 juin 2022 à 15:28, Richard Greenwood via Qgis-user < > qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> a écrit : > >  > Perfect, just what I needed. Thanks so much. >

Re: [Qgis-user] Convert huge shapefile to small size

2022-07-28 Thread Richard Greenwood via Qgis-user
You could export the shapefile and use *Layer Options > RESIZE=YES*. This is the same as the ogr2ogr switch *-lco RESIZE=YES*, which reduces the attribute column widths down to their minimum width required to store the longest actual value in the data. A dbf file allocates space for the full

Re: [Qgis-user] Opening ECW files in QGIS 3.22, Ubuntu 20

2022-09-26 Thread Richard Greenwood via Qgis-user
There is a docker version of GDAL that supports ECW and MrSID formats: https://hub.docker.com/r/klokantech/gdal which you can use to convert images from those proprietary formats to an open format. An example from my notes that converts from MrSID to GeoTIFF and also reprojects using the docker

Re: [Qgis-user] Georeferencer: where is it in UI?

2022-08-05 Thread Richard Greenwood via Qgis-user
On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 1:17 PM Thayer Young via Qgis-user < qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > A good strategy for finding stuff in QGIS, in addition to the > documentation: > There is a search bar for stuff listed in the menus at the top of the > user interface. It is the first

Re: [Qgis-user] Adding the Ubuntu Repo in Linux Mint

2023-03-15 Thread Richard Greenwood via QGIS-User
I'm guessing that you are on version 21.x of Linux Mint. (You can check your version at the command line by entering *cat /etc/issue*). At the command line you can check that the Ubuntu QGIS repository is installed by entering: *cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qgis.list* if you get the following

[Qgis-user] what setting effect topological editing performance?

2023-04-08 Thread Richard Greenwood via QGIS-User
I have an old project that is painful to edit with topological editing activated. I put a couple of the layers into a new project and topological editing is very quick. Specifically, in the old project, moving a single node on a polygon with the vertex tool that does not require any additional

Re: [Qgis-user] what setting effect topological editing performance?

2023-04-09 Thread Richard Greenwood via QGIS-User
Adam, Thanks for your suggestions. I added the layer to the slow project and it's still slow. The project, and the layers in it, are generally responsive and there's no especially complex styling. The issue is only when editing, specifically editing nodes, with topological editing enabled, on

[Qgis-user] Advanced digitizing tool feet/meters error

2023-07-21 Thread Richard Greenwood via QGIS-User
I believe I'm seeing a regression in QGIS 3.32 in the advanced digitizing tool. When I'm working on a layer with a coordinate system that's in feet (and the project coordinate system is the same), distances that I enter are being multiplied by 0.3048. e.g. I enter 1000 and it draws a line that's

Re: [Qgis-user] Advanced digitizing tool feet/meters error

2023-07-21 Thread Richard Greenwood via QGIS-User
On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 4:26 PM Andrea Giudiceandrea via QGIS-User < qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > > Richard Greenwood richard.greenwood at gmail.com > > Fri Jul 21 13:27:19 PDT 2023 > > > I believe I'm seeing a regression in QGIS 3.32 in the advanced > >

Re: [Qgis-user] Georeferencing dxf file in QGIS

2024-05-14 Thread Richard Greenwood via QGIS-User
You can just use the QGIS *Move Feature* tool, possibly in conjunction with the *Rotate Feature* and/or *Scale Feature* tools in the advanced digitizing toolbar. 1. Assign a coordinate system to the DXF layer. If you don't know the coordinate system, or if the DXF file doesn't have one,

Re: [Qgis-user] Advance Digitising Tools- compass bearings

2024-05-16 Thread Richard Greenwood via QGIS-User
The "Azimuth and Distance Plugin" might meet your needs. It accepts bearings/azimuths from north increasing clockwise. On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 7:50 PM Philip Ryan via QGIS-User < qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to digitise a series of old gold lease "portion plans" >

Re: [Qgis-user] Advance Digitising Tools- compass bearings

2024-05-17 Thread Richard Greenwood via QGIS-User
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 6:16 AM Jeremy Jackson via QGIS-User < qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > A related question, what about grid to ground conversions and vice-versa, > are there plugins which support this? Surveys here in Canada always > specify a "combined scale factor", which is tedious