Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Qgis-user Digest, Vol 25, Issue 9

2008-03-07 Thread Martin Dobias
Hi, the code on the wiki page doesn't look bad... keep on improving it :-) Regarding the problems with empty sentences - there are two possibilities: - check first whether the operation you're going to do is valid - thus you'll avoid exceptions - don't do the checks and catch exceptions in try-exc

Re: [Qgis-user] qgis and gps in real-time

2008-03-07 Thread Martin Dobias
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Juha Tuomala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > Anyway, as a thought it's intresting. Considering that you've > shared gis enabled database and multiple users modifying it, > what happens when some layer changes, does it get updated on > every client and ho

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] vector editing in QGIS - questions and issues (PostGIS biased)

2008-03-07 Thread Maciej Sieczka
Marco Hugentobler pisze: So the main problem seems to be confusion that users might have about default settings and project settings. > In my opinion it is enough to add a note in the project snapping dialog that after pressing 'ok', the default setting is overwritten. Similarly, in the opti

[Qgis-user] Re: Qgis-user Digest, Vol 25, Issue 9

2008-03-07 Thread Massimo Di Stefano
hi Martin i'm doing something about gps signal acquisition, i wrote a initial script to produce a gml from the nmea it read the serial port where is connected the gps-receiver and write out to gml format http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/GPS_scrip_:_Parsing_del_segale_NMEA for now it is in "de

Re: [Qgis-user] qgis and gps in real-time

2008-03-07 Thread Juha Tuomala
Hi to everyone, this is intresting topic :) On Friday 07 March 2008 14:47:23 Chris H wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2008 05:17:23 am Luca Casagrande wrote: > > reason that the most import thing is to update the data from the receiver. > > Once you have the data updated at a certain interval, you can

Re: [Qgis-user] qgis and gps in real-time

2008-03-07 Thread Gerry Creager
Might be worth looking at gpsd for an onboard daemon process that can talk to varous GPS receivers and put the data into a stream. Chris H wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2008 08:25:56 am victor javier morales wrote: I would to like to know if qgis is someway able to show in real-time on a map th

Re: [Qgis-user] qgis and gps in real-time

2008-03-07 Thread Chris H
On Friday 07 March 2008 09:33:18 am Martin Dobias wrote: > Yes, QGIS has no problems to show some data in real-time. This is one > of the features of map canvas: on top of the rendered map you can put > arbitrary number of items which can be updated whenever needed. I stand corrected. If this is

Re: [Qgis-user] qgis and gps in real-time

2008-03-07 Thread Martin Dobias
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Chris H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2008 05:17:23 am Luca Casagrande wrote: > > > Hello Andrea. > > > > I hope not be OT, but here [1] you can find an application similar to the > > one you are going to start. > > In that example, the trackin

Re: [Qgis-user] qgis and gps in real-time

2008-03-07 Thread Martin Dobias
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:59 AM, andrea pacifici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can ask to people working to the on-board electronic to send gps > info in a specific format (maybe nmea could be OK). But I have to > understand if Qgis is able to show in real-time the position of the > balloon i

Re: [Qgis-user] plugin installation

2008-03-07 Thread Martin Dobias
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about the idea that we all add a file 'version.txt' into the root > of the zip. Is it possible for the repository (and so for the python > plugin-installer) to serve that from the zip when people ask for it >

Re: [Qgis-user] qgis and gps in real-time

2008-03-07 Thread Chris H
On Friday 07 March 2008 05:17:23 am Luca Casagrande wrote: > Hello Andrea. > > I hope not be OT, but here [1] you can find an application similar to the > one you are going to start. > In that example, the tracking system is made with a Web Application but it > can be expanded via Qgis, for the >

Re: [Qgis-user] qgis and gps in real-time

2008-03-07 Thread Luca Casagrande
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:59 AM, andrea pacifici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all of you for your suggestions! > > I'm involved in a scientific experiment in which a stratospheric > balloon will transport some instruments onboard and will send the > acquired data in real-time by a radio s

Re: [Qgis-user] qgis and gps in real-time

2008-03-07 Thread andrea pacifici
Thanks to all of you for your suggestions! I'm involved in a scientific experiment in which a stratospheric balloon will transport some instruments onboard and will send the acquired data in real-time by a radio signal, including the position of the balloon itself. In this experiment we have to tr

Re: [Qgis-user] plugin installation

2008-03-07 Thread Richard Duivenvoorde
"perturbation", mmm had to look up this one since we are cleaning up these perturbations ;-), I thought to add a small refinement. What about the idea that we all add a file 'version.txt' into the root of the zip. Is it possible for the repository (and so for the python plugin-installer) to se