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] > +----------------------------------------+ > z - p u l l e y > pobox 1614 > langley wa 98260 > www.reprojected.com > +----------------------------------------+ > > > ________________________________ > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > andrea pacifici > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 4:36 AM > To: Richard Duivenvoorde > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] How to identify a raster on the map? > > > > > Hi Richard, > > I'm using Qgis in order to realise a geological map: images will be not > distribuited via mapserver. So I actually have more than 200 layers. > > To create a python plugin for that could be very interesting. But I don't > know python language.... > > Anyway, I think that the possibility to have a Qgis plugin doing this could > be fundamental for those people working with a very large number of raster > data (this is the case of people like me working on planetary geology) > > Thank you very much > > Andrea > > > > > > > > > 2008/1/11, Richard Duivenvoorde < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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 give you some help (thinking about: get mouseXY, walk > through all layers and check if you are within the bbox of current > layer, spit the layername or some other attribute name to std-out (or > more fancy: show a dialog).) > > If the second: as Tim told you: add the indexfile as layer. You can also > use that indexfile to serve the rasters via Mapserver then. > > Building the indexfile and just loading that in Qgis is probably the > fastest way. > > Grtz Richard Duivenvoorde > > andrea pacifici wrote: > > 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 > > information on a raster only if the raster it is already selected. > > There is a plugin to do this? > > > > Otherwise, I think the only way is to build a vector layer representing > > raster footprints, and interrogate it. > > > > Thanks > > > > Andrea > > > > -- > > _____________________________ > > > > Dott. Geol. Andrea Pacifici, Ph.D. > > Via della Billona 1093, > > 55100 Lucca, Italy > > Cell. +39328-09918108 > > E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Qgis-user mailing list > > Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org > > http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > > > -- > _____________________________ > > Dott. Geol. Andrea Pacifici, Ph.D. > Via della Billona 1093, > 55100 Lucca > Cell. 328-09918108 > E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org > http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > -- Tim Sutton QGIS Project Steering Committee Member - Release Manager Visit http://qgis.org for a great open source GIS openModeller Desktop Developer Visit http://openModeller.sf.net for a great open source ecological niche modelling tool Home Page: http://tim.linfiniti.com Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
