[Qgis-user] QGIS 1.5 - Ability to set WMS provider version?

I have successfully used QGIS to consume WMS v 1.1 services in the past, but I can't seem to get them to work with QGIS 1.5.0 (WinXP via OSGEO4W built against 13923M). The server is advertising only WMS version 1.1 in the getCapabilities doc, but QGIS is using OGC Web Map Service version 1.3 data

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 1.5 - Ability to set WMS provider version?

, user error. Thanks again, David. On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Jürgen E. j...@norbit.de wrote: Hi David, On Fri, 01. Oct 2010 at 10:11:40 -0500, David Fawcett wrote: I have successfully used QGIS to consume WMS v 1.1 services in the past, but I can't seem to get them to work with QGIS

Re: [Qgis-user] Polygon colours in existing shape files

There is potential for automatically styling data from MapInfo data sets, I don't know how feasible it is or whether there is a large enough MapInfo contingent that would be interested in funding the effort if it is possible. In a MapServer application, one can specify that MapServer should use

Re: AW: Re: Fwd: [Qgis-user] QGIS Near

Isn't a problem like this usually solved with a two-pass method. The first pass uses the spatial index to eliminate all of the features that could not possibly intersect/touch/etc. And then in the second pass, an actual (more expensive) spatial overlay operation is performed on those candidates

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Selecting an Enterprise GIS Solution - QGIS is Selected!

I do think that it is ironic that many people will see the new ESRI certification as a strong validation of GIS skills, but apparently through anecdotes, these same people would have a very difficult time doing these same universal geospatial tasks in QGIS. Working in a mixed

Re: [Qgis-user] FW: Esri File Geodatabase API Is Now Available

I can't find a link to the TOU/License, but early on, I believe that there were some restrictions like single-user, no server installs. That may have changed. David. On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Il 07/06/2011 23:08, Advrk Aplmrkt ha scritto: YES.

Re: [Qgis-user] Best way to store temperature info

Jorge, I did a very similar thing with some air modeling data. The spatial features were vector 'grid' cells. I stored these in PostGIS. For each feature, there was one data measurement for each day of the year and some additional aggregated data values. I stored this data as related tables

Re: [Qgis-user] Profile Tool

There is a windows installer for Shapely. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely#downloads The problem that I ran into was that the installer defaults to the Python install listed in the Registry. For me, (and probably most people), that is not the Python instance installed by OSGEO4W. At least

Re: [Qgis-user] Profile Tool

repository, but this machine only had an older version installed, and the OSGeo4W installer was not showing the latest version for some reason. I believe to fix it I uninstalled PyQwt5 and Qwt5, then reinstalled them. Alister Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:35:44 -0500 From: David Fawcett david.fawc

Re: [Qgis-user] graduated symbols for point layers

symbols won't be scaled. If you do the other way it will work as expected. cheers -- Giovanni -- On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 09:03 -0600, David Fawcett wrote: I can confirm that this is a problem in 1.8.0-Trunk. Graduated symbols used to 'just work', now they don't.  If they do somehow still work

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Excel Export from QGIS attribute table

If the QGIS team decides to add this feature, they might want to look at the freexl library. (Brought to you by Sandro of SpatiaLite fame. http://www.gaia-gis.it/FreeXL/freexl-1.0.0a-doxy-doc/index.html David. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Filipe Silva Dias filipesd...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Qgis-user] [PROPOSAL] From srs.db to file-based CRS storage

I am definitely not advocating for a switch to a different CRS database. I would guess that the SQLite solution performs better than proj.4 as well. On recommendation for improving performance in applications like MapServer that use proj.4 is to delete out the SRS definitions that you will never

Re: [Qgis-user] Sorry for my faux pau

John, I had actually drafted a response to your query and was going to recommend that you go with Windows because Linux commands and paths are case sensitive, but I didn't send because I thought that you might not find the humor in it... Welcome to QGIS. David. On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:12 PM,

[Qgis-user] mmqgis on OSX

I am running QGIS 1.9.90-Alpha revison e13e45f on OSX Snow Leopard from William's installers at kyngchaos.com. QGIS works great and seems to run faster than past versions. I am running into an issue with the mmqgis pluggin. Maybe this dev build is just not fresh enough. I can successfully

Re: [Qgis-user] Spatialite data portability

I second Andreas. The Spatialite list is great. You could also use the spatialite-gui: https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/spatialite_gui/index David. On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net wrote: Hi Walter, Unfortunately I can't help. But I suggest that you ask the

Re: [Qgis-user] Copy a raster

Try right-clicking on the layer in QGIS and selecting 'Save As...' You have the option of saving the data in different file formats too. David. On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:17 PM, john.polo jp...@mail.usf.edu wrote: QGIS Users, New QGIS user here, as well as a novice at GIS, with what is

Re: [Qgis-user] Autocreating a qix file

There is the shpTree Utility that comes with MapServer: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/ShpTree David. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Jonathan Moules jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk wrote: I have a process which creates a new shapefile on a regular basis which I then provide to one

Re: [Qgis-user] Explorer Arcgis online with linux?

I would suggest that this is way off topic... On Aug 11, 2012, at 3:02 AM, Johan Nilsson joni8...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. It's maybe little of topics for QGIS, but I think here maybe are people here with linux. We have a student-task where we should use ESRIs explorer arcgis online. I don't

[Qgis-user] QGIS = Inkscape Issues

I have created a map in QGIS and exported it as SVG. I am attempting to now edit and use the exported features in Inkscape. I am having some issues placing text on the vector paths. It appears that Inkscape is treating the whole chunk of SVG exported from QGIS as one object. When I attempt to

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS = Inkscape Issues

:02, schrieb David Fawcett: I have created a map in QGIS and exported it as SVG. I am attempting to now edit and use the exported features in Inkscape. I am having some issues placing text on the vector paths. It appears that Inkscape is treating the whole chunk of SVG exported from QGIS

Re: [Qgis-user] FGDB and QGIS 1.8

Wow, between this and the ArcGIS OGR plugin (under development), vendor lock-in may be temporarily less of an issue. At least until they decide to tweak the formats and rules again... https://github.com/RBURHUM/arcgis-ogr On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:32 AM, William Kyngesburye

Re: [Qgis-user] List protocol

I think that in this day and age, people who need help with QGIS (or anything else) come with the tools that they are using. Whether someone top or bottom posts really just depends on what their email client does by default. Most people out there that are new to OpenSource projects, the people

Re: [Qgis-user] Proposal for QGIS-related blog

If you go forward, don't forget to ask to have it added to planetgs.com and planet osgeo. On Oct 14, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Victor Olaya vola...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I was thinking about starting a blog to post QGIS-related stuff, mostly tipstricks about the SEXTANTE plugin, but also about

Re: [Qgis-user] Using/visualizing 3D data (Z values)

Gene, Your email and posts got me inspired to install visvis. I am running Qgis 1.8 on OSX using William's installers at kyngchaos.com. By default, I don't have a GUI toolkit installed for the backend. Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to get one installed without conflicting

Re: [Qgis-user] Using/visualizing 3D data (Z values)

Thanks for your response. I am sure that it is there, but when I try to import pyqt or pyqt4 I get the standard message about the module not existing. This is the case both in a normal shell or in the QGIS Python window. For visvis, when I try app = vv.use(), the backend is not detected.

Re: [Qgis-user] Using/visualizing 3D data (Z values)

Thank you very much for your help. Indeed, it was the PATH/PYTHONPATH issue. I think that when I installed QGIS last time, I was in a rush and didn't think that I would need the Python support. I decided to reinstall QGIS and then I found the same README. I am excited to play with visvis.

Re: [Qgis-user] split point cloud into X randomly selected (equally sized) parts

Olav, Take a look at libLas. http://www.liblas.org/ It does not necessarily have as many commandline tools, but it is performant and is licensed under BSD and LGPL. Here is a comparison between libLas and LASTools: http://www.liblas.org/lastools.html#lastools-liblas David. On Fri, Nov 23,

Re: [Qgis-user] Reading .img - .rrd

If I remember correctly, both ESRI software and GDAL-based software can create .rrd files, but they are not interchangeable. If you think that this might be the problem, move the .rrd files to a different directory or rename them. David. On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Randal Hale

Re: [Qgis-user] Opening gdb files

What is the version of the .fgb? The api only works with = 10 On Feb 5, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Paul Lens paul.l...@gmx.com wrote: Hi List, Completing my previous post: - I downloaded the FileGDBAPI.dll file at

Re: [Qgis-user] natural earth projection and qgis?

/034036.html David. On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Chris Henrick chrishenr...@gmail.comwrote: hi, not talking about the data itself, I mean the actual projection called natural earth: http://www.shadedrelief.com/NE_proj/ -chris On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:00 PM, David Fawcett david.fawc

Re: [Qgis-user] natural earth projection and qgis?

must have GDAL 2.0 -Chris On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:24 PM, David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.comwrote: Sorry about that. It sounds like if you are using GDAL trunk or 2.0, you should just be able to use: +proj=natearth I tried +proj=natearth +wktext in QGIS 1.8. , but I can't get

[Qgis-user] QGIS at FOSS4G NA

Tomorrow is the last day to get your presentation abstracts in for FOSS4G NA. http://foss4g-na.org/call-for-presentations/ I am a little disappointed that we haven't received many abstracts that include QGIS, hopefully you are all just waiting until the final, final, deadline... Also, if any of

Re: [Qgis-user] Coordinate Geometry capability

There is a COGO plugin for QGIS called Azimuth and Distance. I haven't tried it, but Randy Hale wrote a blog post about it last spring. http://www.northrivergeographic.com/archives/lost-my-bearing-found-it-in-qgis David. On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Gerard Ashton ashto...@comcast.net

Re: [Qgis-user] one raster from tiles

I think that you have brought up an interesting idea though. After getting used to the idea of being able to use a tile index for large raster data sets in MapServer. I have really wished that this feature existed in desktop GIS. In ArcGIS, you can create a raster catalog, but you have to use a

Re: [Qgis-user] World file

Augustin, Below is a Python function that I threw together to calculate world file params for a rotated image and write them out to a file. It might be of some help to you. David. # creates a world file for the air photo # Args: # outputFile

Re: [Qgis-user] rephrased;. import 3D line into a shapefile?

Tom, You have laid out an interesting (fun) problem. I don't have a solution for you, but a few thoughts on how I would approach it. 1. I am not sure how you want to display the 3D shape in QGIS. If you are just going to symbolize the depth by coloring the line segments, you could get by with

Re: [Qgis-user] Within Quantum GIS can you open ESRI file geodatabases and export to shapefile?

No, the file geodatabase is a proprietary format. OGR can read the Access based Personal Geodatabse though. At least the feature info anyway. David. On Mar 27, 2009, at 6:50 AM, John Mitchell mitchellj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Within Quantum GIS can you open ESRI file geodatabases

Re: [Qgis-user] seting up a wms server problems

Ricardo, This is probably a better question for the MapServer list, but I will give it a shot: I would suggest creating a WMS request and testing it directly in a browser. In your example URL[2], you are making a mode=map request, not a WMS request. If you get this to work, you know that you

Re: [Qgis-user] alternatives to join attributes

Have you thought about loading the data into PostGIS? You would load the data into the db and then be able to query and display only the data that you want at any time. David. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Carbonari, Katie (IS) katie.carbon...@ngc.com wrote: Good morning. I have a lot of

Re: [Qgis-user] alternatives to join attributes

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Edmond, Brian S brianedm...@missouristate.edu wrote: Katie, Your foray into PostgreSQL and PostGIS will not be wasted if you plan to do more GIS in the future.  Even if you do it only for this project, it should help you tremendously. Katie, It can be a

Re: [Qgis-user] GDAL and .nc (netCDF) and qgis

For a quick check of the data, you might want to use OpenEV. It is part of the FWTools distribution. http://fwtools.maptools.org/ http://openev.sourceforge.net/ David. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:04 AM, M.E.Dodd m.e.d...@open.ac.uk wrote: Thanks for the replies on this one. I am indeed

Re: [Qgis-user] Othos and QGIS forum

Tom, Most OS GIS libraries can't read ESRI's proprietary .rrd and .aux files. If your image is a georeferenced .tif, try the .tif file in a directory by itself. David On Jan 29, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Tom Mort tom_m...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I am new to Quantum GIS and have a couple

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS WEB Presence Capability

Well said Brent. In the OpenSource Geospatial world, individual projects tend to specialize on one part of the 'stack' (desktop, maping server, database, etc.) Because many of these projects base their products on open standards, they tend to work quite well together. In some cases, there are

Re: [Qgis-user] OS X 2.0 packages update

It has been said before, but needs to be repeated. William, you rock for maintaining the QGIS and all of the other geospatial frameworks/binaries for OSX! On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 8:24 PM, William Kyngesburye wokl...@kyngchaos.comwrote: I did a link hunt and fixed up all the link errors I

Re: [Qgis-user] lidar visualization in qgis

The issue with these tools is that (at least last time I looked), some of these tools can't be used in government or commercial sectors without additional licensing. I wasn't able to use the tools via Processing without obtaining a license from the creator.

[Qgis-user] RasterTranslate format bug?

I am exporting an image in QGIS 2.2 and I see an issue with the output format. When I select the .jp2 format from the GDAL formats list, I get an error that I need to use.hdf. HDF is the format before jpeg2000 in the list. If I try .bil, I get a .pnm format. (also the format before .bil). I am

[Qgis-user] Fwd: Possible Bug - Print Composer Save doesn't preserve status

I tried to send this to the dev list, but got bounced. Thanks, David. -- Forwarded message -- From: David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:36 PM Subject: Possible Bug - Print Composer Save doesn't preserve status To: qgis-developer qgis-develo

Re: [Qgis-user] Opening Raster from ESRI .GDB

Even, I believe that you meant that the ESRI FileGDB driver can only read files created by ArcGIS 10.0 or higher. Their driver does not work for 9.x files if I remember correctly. David. On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Even Rouault even.roua...@mines-paris.org wrote: Le jeudi 24 juillet

Re: [Qgis-user] Making border lines disappear

You could also try to convert the underlying polygon dataset to polyline for cartography purposes. That gets rid of adjacent lines. This was a trick that I applied to get around strange effects with AGG in MapServer quite a while ago. David. On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Alexandre Neto

Re: [Qgis-user] DB Manager in QGIS 2.8

results with St_GeometryType(). Best regards, Alexandre Neto Em 18/03/2015 18:52, David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.com escreveu: I am running QGIS 2.8.1 on OSX 10.9.5 using William's binaries. The DB Manager plugin is at 0.1.20. I can load layers into PostGIS using the DB Manager plugin

Re: [Qgis-user] Color Preview Modes in 2.8.1?

-03-19 17:40 GMT+01:00 David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.com: Are the preview modes that simulate viewing by people with different 'colorblind' conditions available in QGIS 2.8.1? http://nyalldawson.net/2014/05/and-now-colour-preview-modes-in-qgis-map-canvas/ I looked in the View menu

[Qgis-user] DB Manager in QGIS 2.8

I am running QGIS 2.8.1 on OSX 10.9.5 using William's binaries. The DB Manager plugin is at 0.1.20. I can load layers into PostGIS using the DB Manager plugin, and I can use the SQL window to execute a spatial query intersecting two tables. But, when I check the box to load the query result as

Re: [Qgis-user] DB Manager in QGIS 2.8

*DISTINCT* fires.id, fires.inci_no, fires.descript, fires.geom FROM lab.mpls_fires_2014 fires INNER JOIN lab.mpls_lakes lakes ON ST_DWITHIN(fires.geom, lakes.geom, 1000) Best regards, Alexandre Neto Em 19/03/2015 03:25, David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.com escreveu: Thanks

[Qgis-user] Color Preview Modes in 2.8.1?

Are the preview modes that simulate viewing by people with different 'colorblind' conditions available in QGIS 2.8.1? http://nyalldawson.net/2014/05/and-now-colour-preview-modes-in-qgis-map-canvas/ I looked in the View menu and couldn't see them. Thanks, David.

Re: [Qgis-user] WMS Service Question

through on this amazingly enough. Randy On 05/03/2015 09:57 PM, David Fawcett wrote: Randy, Have you tried a sample request through a browser, or even curl? David On May 3, 2015, at 8:52 PM, Randal Hale rjh...@northrivergeographic.com wrote: I've been working with NAIP provided

Re: [Qgis-user] WMS Service Question

Randy, Have you tried a sample request through a browser, or even curl? David On May 3, 2015, at 8:52 PM, Randal Hale rjh...@northrivergeographic.com wrote: I've been working with NAIP provided by http://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NAIP Something changed on their end

Re: [Qgis-user] Spatial Query with buffer?

If you don't have an easy way to set up PostGIS, you could use QGIS to save your data in a SpatiaLite database, and then write a spatial query against that. On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:42 AM, DelazJ del...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, May be you can use the graphical modeler of Processing to design your

Re: [Qgis-user] Dotted line symbol in QGIS

Here is another solution that would work if you are not mapping live data, and you can use a derived product. Convert your polygon dataset to lines. The, use VectorDissolve to remove duplicated lines where they are overlapping. David. On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)

Re: [Qgis-user] FGDC Geology Symbology for QGIS: add contributions where?

Randy Hale did a similar thing with American Planning Assoc styles. http://www.northrivergeographic.com/archives/building_styles_for_qgis Maybe there is critical mass now... On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Torsten Lange torsten.la...@mail.de wrote: Hi Stefan, I think, this is a great

Re: [Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other

-insurance.co.uk Web : www.zenith-insurance.co.uk Address : Chester House, Harlands Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16 1LR Zenith Insurance Management UK Limited, a part of the Markerstudy Group of Companies *From:* David Fawcett [mailto:david.fawc...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 19 June 2015 15:06

Re: [Qgis-user] Merging Shapefiles on Top of Each Other

Tom, As Matt says, you don't need to combine the roads and sectors into the same dataset to display them together in QGIS. You can add both separate datasets to a map and you can order the layers so that the roads are drawn after the polygons. David. On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Matt Boyd

Re: [Qgis-user] Blank square appears when using basemap

This is a pretty well known issue: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5827 On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Bernd Vogelgesang bernd.vogelges...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Looks to me like the tiles from bing are not loaded during print time. I remember that fumbling in the settings-options-network made a

Re: [Qgis-user] GEOJSON Marker colours

Phil, Both shapefile and GeoJSON are just data formats, and they don't encode any styling or marker information. In QGIS, after you export to GeoJSON and add it to your project, you can copy the styling from the shapefile instance of that layer to your GeoJSON layer. That styling will only

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 2.16 for OS X?

We really do appreciate the work that William and Larry do for the OSX open source GIS community. Thanks for all that you do! David > On Aug 22, 2016, at 6:39 PM, Nyall Dawson wrote: > >> On 23 August 2016 at 08:38, Larry Shaffer wrote: >> Hi,

Re: [Qgis-user] Cool Features of QGIS

I think that the blend modes are something that many ESRI users would find unique and useful. Also, not all users rely very heavily on PostGIS or spatial SQL, but a DB manager example demonstrating the power of creating layers directly from views and queries is impressive. Showing one that creates

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 3 OS X/macOS

Thank you William! You provide a very valuable services for all of us who do GIS on a Mac. David. On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 9:21 PM, Madry, Scott wrote: > Scott Madry > > and just FYI, I had to load matplotlib and scipy to get the Semi Automatic > Classification plugin to

Re: [Qgis-user] geometry generator - unexpected results

translate( > > line_interpolate_point($geometry, @element), > > rand(-0.5, 0.5), > > rand(-0.5, 0.5) > > ) > > ) > > ) > > > > > > Michel > > *Van:* Qgis-user *Namens *David > Fawcett

[Qgis-user] geometry generator - unexpected results

I am trying to use a geometry generator to accomplish the "hand-drawn" line style. Some great recent examples by: Klas Karlsson https://twitter.com/klaskarlsson/status/1249333750451879937 Hamish: https://polemic.nz/2019/11/18/foss4g-qgis-geometry-generators/ I am using the code below from the

[Qgis-user] Geometry Generator - Generating buffered points from polys

Hi, I am working through an exercise to figure out the best way to represent some wooded areas in a map that I am making. The current iteration uses geometry generators to create slightly randomized points to fill the polygons that represent wooded areas. I based it off of the great examples at