Re: [Qgis-user] Newbie - QGIS won't recongize shp files, comp turns shp files into pdfs

[Akinyemi Emmanuel]

Hi,
Please extract the contents of the zip file first into a destination folder
of choice.
When opening a shapefile, navigate to your folder to select the
shapefile(s).
Hope this helps..
Yemi
On Jan 4, 2014 9:13 AM, "Matt_Klick"  wrote:

> I'm very new to any GIS type platforms, so please forgive the ignorance on
> display here (and I did search for answers to this elsewhere). I've
> downloaded QGIS 2.0.1. I separately downloaded Tunisia administrative data
> from DIVA-GIS. When I open QGIS, it does not find the .zip file, nor any of
> the shp files. In my efforts to correct, I managed to convert shp files
> into
> pdfs. Even though I've re-installed QGIS, and deleted and re-downloaded
> Tunisia files, shp files are once again pdfs, and QGIS cannot "see" any shp
> files. Any advice, or thoughts on what I'm doing wrong, greatly
> appreciated.
> -MK
>
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Re: [Qgis-user] (no subject)

[Akinyemi Emmanuel]

I concur.
On Jan 2, 2014 5:26 PM, "Shriramana Sharma"  wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:16 AM, herath kumara  wrote:
> > Name mail  herath...@gmail.com
> > Password 0718999012
>
> Hello. Please NEVER send your mail password on to a public list.
> Please immediately change your gmail password.
>
> If you have a big file, please upload it somewhere like rapidshare and
> send the link to the list. Please also clearly state your problem so
> others can help you.
>
> @List admin please delete the mail from the archives.
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Re: [Qgis-user] QGis for bird surveys

[Akinyemi Emmanuel]

Hi,
I will suggest she uses PostGIS database. She can add all her data in there
from Excel, modify them, add new ones and easily interact with QGIS. She
can aslo perform SQL operations in PostGIS and display them in QGIS.

Yemi
On Apr 4, 2013 1:47 AM, "Andreas Neumann"  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Actually an easy import from one table into the other, with the ability
> to map columns and avoid duplicates, is missing in my opinion. There are
> several ways to achieve what you want, Sarah (like merging shapefiles,
> loading from text and copy/paste). But there should be easier ways to
> achieve that.
>
> We are in feature freeze for QGIS 2.0 - so maybe something for QGIS 2.1 ;-)
>
> Andreas
>
> Am 03.04.2013 16:34, schrieb Albin Blaschka:
> > Hello!
> >
> > Maybe a look into the manual would also help...
> >
> > http://www.qgis.org/en/documentation.html
> >
> > and the How-to pages (linked from the above mentioned page):
> > http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/How_do_I_do_that_in_QGIS
> >
> > HTH,
> > Albin
> >
> >
> >
> > Am 03.04.2013 16:04, schrieb Lynkos:
> >> Alexandre
> >> , thanks :-). I'll try your suggestion and let you know if I can make it
> >> work.
> >>
> >>
> >> 2013/4/3 Alexandre Neto  >> >
> >>
> >> For each new record you need to add a new Point to your shapefile.
> >> If you need to enter the coordinates by hand, then you should take a
> >> look at the numerical digitalize plugin. After the point is added
> >> you can then edit the rest of your attributes.
> >>
> >> If you have too many new observations already in a spreadsheet, then
> >> you can do in another way:
> >>
> >> - Create a temporary shapefile from the new spreadsheet, making sure
> >> that its attributes are the same as you main shapefile;
> >> - Add it to map canvas;
> >> - Select that layer and copy all its features (points) using the
> >> select by rectangle or directly on attribute table and copy them to
> >> clipboard.
> >> - Select the main shapefile, star editing (the pencil icon), and
> >> paste the features from clipboars.
> >>
> >> If everything went well, and the layers attributes match, you will
> >> get all the new bird sighting in the main shapefile.
> >>
> >> Still, the best would be to directly input the sightings on the
> >> shapefile.
> >>
> >> Hope it helps,
> >>
> >> Alexandre Neto
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Lynkos  >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> ... to modify the data, yes in fact that's what I'm doing. But
> >> to ADD a new record from the coordinate data? Am I missing an
> >> "add" button somewhere?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2013/4/3 Paolo Cavallini  >> >
> >>
> > Il 03/04/2013 12:05, Lynkos ha scritto:
> >  > Thanks for answering so quickly Paolo.
> >  > Adding the data directly to the imported shapefile is
> > exactly what I would like to
> >  > do. I'm sure it's incredibly simple, but I just can't
> > figure out how, Sarah.
> >
> > Just click on the Pen button, start editing.
> > All the best.
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Re: [Qgis-user] Smartphone suggestions for QGIS Mobile

[Akinyemi Emmanuel]

HTC OneX would suffice
On Jul 26, 2012 6:52 PM, "venerio giuseppe anardu" 
wrote:

> Hello,
> I have to buy a new mobile phone, so I would like to buy a good one to use
> with QGIS Mobile, and finally enter in the world of the mobile gis.
> I already saw interesting models of Samsung, even in price; but I think
> that their "capacitive" touch displays doesn't let to operate with enough
> precision, beause has to be used with fingers or a thick soft round pointed
> stilus, respect to the "resistive" touch display that that can be used with
> everithing and with its thin pointed stilus, as well.
> Does someone used theese kind of displays and can give opinion and
> suggestions to right addres my choiche?
> Thank you in advance,
> Venerio
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Re: [Qgis-user] geocoding

[Akinyemi Emmanuel]

Sorry, please I meant to have said 'Geocoding'.
I apologise for the initial mix up. The Javascript API platform for
geocoding is pretty straight forward
Cheers!
On May 14, 2012 5:26 PM, "Akinyemi Emmanuel"  wrote:

> Check the Google Maps API and see the section 'Reverse Geocoding'. That
> should sort you out
> Yemi
> On May 14, 2012 5:22 PM, "Ezra Boyd"  wrote:
>
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> Google Fuzion Tables makes this very easy (at least for the U.S.)
>> First you upload the your list of addresses into Google Doc's, then
>> you open it up as a Fuzion Table.  Then under the Visualize tool,
>> select Map.  This will display your points in a Google Maps like
>> environment.  It also lets you download and save the points as a .kml
>> file (which you can open in QGIS).
>>
>> It has been a while since I have done this, so I don't know how it has
>> changed with the new Google Drive.
>>
>> Hope it helps!
>>
>> Ezra
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:51 AM, M.E.Dodd  wrote:
>> > Thanks for the suggestion.  I thought this was possible in qgis just
>> from a
>> > list of addresses (within limits on numbers of matches per day) but
>> perhaps
>> > not.  Currently I am trying http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/however
>> > with yahoo to match against the results are of rather limited use. Most
>> of
>> > the addresses are actually in uk but come back as showing in usa,
>> perhaps I
>> > need to add country name.  a bit more worrying is exact same address
>> shown
>> > up in different places and giving different coordinate pairs a number of
>> > miles apart.  There is also a limit of 1000 addresses.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > From: QGIS [mailto:q...@dandittmann.org]
>> > Sent: 14 May 2012 16:21
>> > To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
>> > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] geocoding
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 05/14/2012 08:35 AM, M.E.Dodd wrote:
>> >
>> > Is it possible to geocode a list of addresses? I have the geocoding
>> plugin
>> > loaded and it works (api key sorted out) but not sure how to get the
>> list of
>> > addresses into qgis as they have no x,y location info at the moment.  Am
>> > sure this question asked before but could not find the answer.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Dr Mike Dodd
>> >
>> > Department of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems
>> >
>> > The Open University
>> > Walton Hall
>> > Milton Keynes
>> > MK7 6AA
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > http://www.ispot.org.uk/
>> >
>> > http://www.floodplainmeadows.org.uk/
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I am aware of two potential solutions:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 1) Locate a webservice and have that produce the Latitude/Longitude
>> > coordinate pairs.
>> >
>> > This site has several:
>> > https://webgis.usc.edu/Services/Geocode/About/GeocoderList.aspx
>> >
>> > Most as far as I can tell do not have support outside the United States
>> > however.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Ultimately it would be a nice feature to have added to the plugin.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 2) The solution I had to go with was to use PostGIS outside of QGIS to
>> > generate the Latitude/Longitude pairs. This may not work depending on
>> your
>> > setup, available time, knowledge level, budget, or level of access
>> within
>> > your organization.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > The available documentation I found assumes that United States Census
>> Bureau
>> > data is used to geocode against. This solution could be made to work for
>> > other countries if the same/similar type of data released by the US
>> Census
>> > Bureau is made available by the locality for which you wish to geocode
>> for.
>> > Changes likely will be needed either to the setup scripts or the final
>> > database columns prior to loading data from your locality to take into
>> > account differences between how things are done in the US versus your
>> > locality. Examples might include length and data type of postal codes
>> and
>> > state/provincial abbreviations.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Some information can be found here:
>> > http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/Geocode.html
>> >
>> > A setup guide
>> > http://www.letseehere.com/postgis-geocoder-using-tiger-2010-data
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Dan Dittmann
>> >
>> >
>> > --
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>> exempt
>> > charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC
>> 038302).
>> >
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Re: [Qgis-user] geocoding

[Akinyemi Emmanuel]

Check the Google Maps API and see the section 'Reverse Geocoding'. That
should sort you out
Yemi
On May 14, 2012 5:22 PM, "Ezra Boyd"  wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Google Fuzion Tables makes this very easy (at least for the U.S.)
> First you upload the your list of addresses into Google Doc's, then
> you open it up as a Fuzion Table.  Then under the Visualize tool,
> select Map.  This will display your points in a Google Maps like
> environment.  It also lets you download and save the points as a .kml
> file (which you can open in QGIS).
>
> It has been a while since I have done this, so I don't know how it has
> changed with the new Google Drive.
>
> Hope it helps!
>
> Ezra
>
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:51 AM, M.E.Dodd  wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestion.  I thought this was possible in qgis just
> from a
> > list of addresses (within limits on numbers of matches per day) but
> perhaps
> > not.  Currently I am trying http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/however
> > with yahoo to match against the results are of rather limited use. Most
> of
> > the addresses are actually in uk but come back as showing in usa,
> perhaps I
> > need to add country name.  a bit more worrying is exact same address
> shown
> > up in different places and giving different coordinate pairs a number of
> > miles apart.  There is also a limit of 1000 addresses.
> >
> >
> >
> > From: QGIS [mailto:q...@dandittmann.org]
> > Sent: 14 May 2012 16:21
> > To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
> > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] geocoding
> >
> >
> >
> > On 05/14/2012 08:35 AM, M.E.Dodd wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to geocode a list of addresses? I have the geocoding
> plugin
> > loaded and it works (api key sorted out) but not sure how to get the
> list of
> > addresses into qgis as they have no x,y location info at the moment.  Am
> > sure this question asked before but could not find the answer.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dr Mike Dodd
> >
> > Department of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems
> >
> > The Open University
> > Walton Hall
> > Milton Keynes
> > MK7 6AA
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.ispot.org.uk/
> >
> > http://www.floodplainmeadows.org.uk/
> >
> >
> >
> > I am aware of two potential solutions:
> >
> >
> >
> > 1) Locate a webservice and have that produce the Latitude/Longitude
> > coordinate pairs.
> >
> > This site has several:
> > https://webgis.usc.edu/Services/Geocode/About/GeocoderList.aspx
> >
> > Most as far as I can tell do not have support outside the United States
> > however.
> >
> >
> >
> > Ultimately it would be a nice feature to have added to the plugin.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2) The solution I had to go with was to use PostGIS outside of QGIS to
> > generate the Latitude/Longitude pairs. This may not work depending on
> your
> > setup, available time, knowledge level, budget, or level of access within
> > your organization.
> >
> >
> >
> > The available documentation I found assumes that United States Census
> Bureau
> > data is used to geocode against. This solution could be made to work for
> > other countries if the same/similar type of data released by the US
> Census
> > Bureau is made available by the locality for which you wish to geocode
> for.
> > Changes likely will be needed either to the setup scripts or the final
> > database columns prior to loading data from your locality to take into
> > account differences between how things are done in the US versus your
> > locality. Examples might include length and data type of postal codes and
> > state/provincial abbreviations.
> >
> >
> >
> > Some information can be found here:
> > http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/Geocode.html
> >
> > A setup guide
> > http://www.letseehere.com/postgis-geocoder-using-tiger-2010-data
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Dan Dittmann
> >
> >
> > --
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> exempt
> > charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC
> 038302).
> >
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