On Aug 13, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Ricardo Filipe Soares Garcia da wrote: > Hello list > > I have uploaded a new python plugin called ProfileFromLine. > This plugin will generate points along lines according to a user > specified interval and will optionally sample loaded raster(s) at each > new point's location. > > Each new point will keep all the attributes of its originating line, > plus any raster values that it had been asked to sample. In addition, > every point will have a distinct attribute and also an attribute that > stores the distance along its line since the beginning (the line's > starting point being according to the original digitizing direction). > > the new points layer is created using the 'memory' provider, and the > user must manually save it to disk. this seemed like a nice option, > because you can choose your desired format upon saving.
This sounds like another nice addition. I have done this with GRASS, and your plugin will greatly simplify the process. Kudos > > The plugin depends on the shapely python package, so you must have it > installed and accessible on your system. This shouldn't be much of a > problem on linux and windows (it is available on the osgeo4w packages > as well). since I don't have a Mac I wouldn't know how easy it is to > get shapely installed, but I trust it to be just as easy ;) It's pretty simple. This worked for me from the Terminal: sudo easy_install shapely > > I hope that it is useful. Please drop me a message through this > mailing list if you have any suggestions. Cheers, John_______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user