Re: [Qgis-user] Local Government for QGIS
That is a great summary Falk! I think the GIS community is lacking strategic marketeers and solid branding. I personally tried to take that road once, thinking I was backed by a solid group of open source professionals teamed up in a cooperation. I was wrong. It is my opinion that the businessmodel where one that does the work gets paid and one that invests in relations does so on his own account needs tuning to put open source on the agenda of government descision makers. 2015-06-12 3:56 GMT+02:00 Falk Huettmann fhuettm...@alaska.edu: Dear all, thanks, I find this is a very essential discussion to have, and with QGIS, GDAL/R etc at its core and solution. Much can be said, and should be said and changed, but here a few points for a start: -mapping relates to land, health and water management questions; many of these are widely unresolved nor do many people really want it to be resolved even. -mapping is, and remains, a highly strategic and military topic. -mapping affects economic growth and our neoliberal economy policy. Software is directly embedded in that; now all driven by online developments and its drivers. -mapping and its tools and data are part of democracy. Thus, a (tried) control of mapping, its data, and its tools, must come of no big surprise. It's a heavily vested subject. (one can add easily remote sensing perspectives in that discussion, and one really should). These things are not new, apply globally, and are part of any good Geography textbook really. I would go that far and put it as a major topic for Climate Change! So I think the current status of GIS governments and its inertia can widely be derived from there. We have much experience in that, world-wide (happy to share if somebody wants to know; just ask...). What about a good set of GIS and Remote Sensing ETHICS ? Yes, I find it's time things change for the better. Keep me posted please. Very best and thanks Falk Huettmann On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Steve G stevenlgol...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure this is the correct forum for a start to this discussion, but I've been pondering this for a while and interested what others think. I work for local government in the U.S. and when people generally talk about GIS there is no doubt an automatic association with the ESRI ArcGIS platform. And beyond GIS itself, the dominance that ESRI has is even more pronounced given the fact that many cities have implemented other related systems (permitting, computer aided dispatch, etc) that are identified business partners with ESRI. Furthermore, the GIS Local Government track that ESRI developed has evolved to offer an turnkey approach for local government self-service to establish a robust geodatabase (Local Government Information Model), maps, apps, web services, etc. This extends a COTS approach for local governments to establish, develop, and maintain a fairly complete GIS. In my opinion, pure genius...because for a lot of small cities/governments with limited staff and budget, the turnkey approach is very appealing. For city bureaucrats thinking about implementing/extending GIS, what they might think as little $$$ and you get all of this? Awesome...here's my money. HOWEVER, this approach has its drawbacks. Long-term license/use costs, vendor lock-in, continuous waiting for someone at the company to fix somethingwell, the list goes on (just read any blog post supporting open source/FOSS). So, with the evolution of QGIS as a prevailing replacement/alternative for the other product, is anyone thinking about building more of a turnkey approach (database, maps, apps, web services, etc) geared to local governments? I like the direction of the OpenGeo platform (and others) trying to provide the whole software stack, but still if a small local government wants to have a full fledged interactive GIS, it might seem like a lot of work to develop and maintain. I am interested in other thoughts...perhaps this belongs on a blog post somewhere more independent, but perhaps this can be a place to begin. Steve G. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Local-Government-for-QGIS-tp5210489.html Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- [image: http://www.dogodigi.net] http://www.dogodigi.net *Milo van der Linden* web: dogodigi http://www.dogodigi.net tel: +31-6-16598808 ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS crashes when recording a layer to save as
Archlinux community is facing this issue too. The solution for us was to patch/upgrade or downgrade gdal as the issue seems related to gdal 1.11.0. I decided to upgrade to 1.11.1 http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.11.1-News and this solved the issue. 2014-12-16 22:30 GMT+01:00 José Antonio Barreña Cayuela jabar...@gmail.com : - O.S.: Manjaro Linux (the latest version). - QGIS 2.6 Brighton - Installed by aur (yayourt). - System update. Error: QGIS crashes when recording a layer to save as The terminal message is: [barri@manjaro ~]$ qgis Warning: QGraphicsScene::addItem: item has already been added to this scene And, when I try to save the layer: [barri@manjaro ~]$ qgis Warning: QGraphicsScene::addItem: item has already been added to this scene QGIS died on signal 11Abortado (`core' generado) Any solution? Thanks! -- José Antonio Barreña Cayuela *Biólogo (botánico). Servicios Ambientales* *+34 677 811 883* · jabar...@gmail.com [image: linkedIn] http://es.linkedin.com/pub/jos%C3%A9-antonio-barre%C3%B1a-cayuela/26/936/15a/ ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Directories of WMS
If you are looking for services in Europe, you might want to take a look at the INSPIRE geoportal and see what is available there: http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/discovery/ 2013/1/9 Agustin Lobo alobolis...@gmail.com Does anybody have or can point me to a compiled directory of WMS services? Thanks Agus ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] new xytools plugin: now open and save simple Excel files
Nice work! I will see if I can find time to give it a spin soon. Regards Op 15 dec. 2011 21:34 schreef Richard Duivenvoorde rdmaili...@duif.net het volgende: Hi List, I uploaded a new version of the xytools plugin. After some questions and discussion on the list about Excel files, I added simple capability to open and save excel files. It uses the python xlw and xlrd libs for that (http://www.python-excel.org/). Those are available for windows users in the osgeo4w package. Linux users can probably get it from there package manager. If all fails, go to http://www.python-excel.org/ and get it from there. In short: it can save the attributes of a vector layer to a simple (one worksheet containing) xls file. It can open an xls file and load it in a memory layer. You can either point to an x and y column, and those values will be used for the x and y of the Point features. Or you can cancel choosing the x and y, and the attribute data will just be loaded taking 0/0 as x and y coordinates. There is a help file availabe via the xytools plugin menu with more information. Let me know if you find problems with it or have ideas to improve (see docs for earlier ideas). plugin via plugin menu or http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/xytools/ source http://hub.qgis.org/projects/xytools/repository project page http://hub.qgis.org/projects/xytools Regards, Richard Duivenvoorde ps if you find the plugin really usefull, I'm also trying out paypal buttons on the project page :-) Half of the profit (?) goes to the qgis project for this one I promised Paolo and Tim... ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] installing 1.7 standalone Win XP: Couldn't load PyQGIS., Python support will be disabled.
Hello Janneke, I think I remember that qGIS can run without pyQGIS, so you should be good on regular functionality with qGIS. However, for python support you need a more recent version of python sip. Instructions for installing that can be found here: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/sip4/installation.html Good luck! Milo van der Linden 2011/6/23 Janneke Qgis janneke.q...@gmail.com: Dear all, I've just tried installing the standalone version of Qgis 1.7 on XP, and after starting the program I get the following error message: -- Couldn't load PyQGIS. Python support will be disabled. Traceback (most recent call last): File , line 1, in RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v5.0 but the qgis.core module requires API v8.1 Python version: 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] QGIS version: 1.7.0-Wroclaw 'Wroclaw', 63ecdd7 Python path: ['C:/PROGRA~1/QUANTU~2/apps/qgis/./python', 'C:/Documents and Settings/Admin/.qgis/python', 'C:/Documents and Settings/Admin/.qgis/python/plugins', 'C:/PROGRA~1/QUANTU~2/apps/qgis/./python/plugins', 'C:\\Program Files\\ArcGIS\\bin', 'C:\\Qgis\\apps\\qgis\\python', 'C:\\Qgis\\apps\\Python25\\Lib\\site-packages', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\python25.zip', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\DLLs', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\plat-win', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\qgis\\bin', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\win32', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\wx-2.8-msw-unicode'] --- Is there anything else I should install or set? I've also sent it to the developer list yesterday. greetings, Janneke ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] installing 1.7 standalone Win XP: Couldn't load PyQGIS., Python support will be disabled.
Janneke, It probably ships with the correct python sip, but perhaps it is not on your path or overruled by an older version of sip. Have you tried the osgeo4w installer, or did you install from the qGIS standalone installer? Perhaps the osgeo4w installation process can help as it will also install dependencies on the go http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ 2011/6/23 Janneke Qgis janneke.q...@gmail.com: Thanks, Milo, I'll give it a try. I need the python bindings. It looks a bit daunting though, last time I tried building things I got completely stuck. I'm a bit surprised that the standalone installer doesn't come with the corresponding python sip - I hoped it would've worked out of the box. Is it supposed to? greetings, Janneke On 23/06/2011 11:02, Milo van der Linden wrote: Hello Janneke, I think I remember that qGIS can run without pyQGIS, so you should be good on regular functionality with qGIS. However, for python support you need a more recent version of python sip. Instructions for installing that can be found here: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/sip4/installation.html Good luck! Milo van der Linden 2011/6/23 Janneke Qgisjanneke.q...@gmail.com: Dear all, I've just tried installing the standalone version of Qgis 1.7 on XP, and after starting the program I get the following error message: -- Couldn't load PyQGIS. Python support will be disabled. Traceback (most recent call last): File , line 1, in RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v5.0 but the qgis.core module requires API v8.1 Python version: 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] QGIS version: 1.7.0-Wroclaw 'Wroclaw', 63ecdd7 Python path: ['C:/PROGRA~1/QUANTU~2/apps/qgis/./python', 'C:/Documents and Settings/Admin/.qgis/python', 'C:/Documents and Settings/Admin/.qgis/python/plugins', 'C:/PROGRA~1/QUANTU~2/apps/qgis/./python/plugins', 'C:\\Program Files\\ArcGIS\\bin', 'C:\\Qgis\\apps\\qgis\\python', 'C:\\Qgis\\apps\\Python25\\Lib\\site-packages', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\python25.zip', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\DLLs', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\plat-win', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\qgis\\bin', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\win32', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin', 'C:\\PROGRA~1\\QUANTU~2\\apps\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\wx-2.8-msw-unicode'] --- Is there anything else I should install or set? I've also sent it to the developer list yesterday. greetings, Janneke ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] POSTA CERTIFICATA: Installing QGIS: severe error
Your system might have older versions of that dll hanging around. Please perform a search for the file and check for duplicates. Qgis installs dll's in its own directory, other found versions could be outdated Met vriendelijke groet, Milo van der Linden verzonden vanaf een smartphone met onhandig toetsenbord. Typefouten? Vergeef mij! Op 1 jun. 2011 19:50 schreef Per conto di: resambie...@legalmail.it posta-certific...@legalmail.it het volgende: Messaggio di posta certificata Il giorno 01/06/2011 alle ore 19:36:26 (+0200) il messaggio Installing QGIS: severe error e' stato inviato da resambie...@legalmail.it indirizzato a: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Il messaggio originale e' incluso in allegato. Identificativo messaggio: 382171734.1267177073.1306949786842liaspe...@legalmail.it L'allegato daticert.xml contiene informazioni di servizio sulla trasmissione. Legalmail certified email message On 2011-06-01 at 19:36:26 (+0200) the message Installing QGIS: severe error was sent by resambie...@legalmail.it and addressed to: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org The original message is attached with the name postacert.eml or Installing QGIS: severe error. Message ID: 382171734.1267177073.1306949786842liaspe...@legalmail.it The daticert.xml attachment contains service information on the transmission. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
[Qgis-user] Thank you launchpad manager(s)!
I want to send a thank you to the launchpad manager for the ubuntu gis environment. Today I upgraded to qGIS 1.6 without a single hassle thanks to the excelent repository! Respect! -- Milo van der Linden Open Source Geospatial consultant ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
[Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] announcing DPSimplify
Ai! My heart jumped as I was thinking maybe this was a Desktop-Publishing plugin ;-) I hope someone might respond to my enhancement request. Alexander Bruy wrote: Hi all, here is a new small python plugin DPSimplify. The plugin intended for Douglas-Peucker line simplification/generalization. You can get it through our repo (GIS-Lab, http://gis-lab.info/programs/qgis/qgis-repo.xml) Don't forget to turn on experimental plugins in your plugin installer. Have fun. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
[Qgis-user] Request for Enhancement: PDF export for post-processing
Hello People! I have a question. This summer I met someone of use-it http://www.use-it.be/ belgium at the OpenStreetMap State of the Map. Use-IT creates free paper maps for youth-hostels targeting a specific audience. Currently they are using the tool chain: OpenStreetMap website - export svg - import in Illustrator - lots and lots of manual labour and finally produce eye candy like this: http://www.use-it.be/_files/inlineuploads/pages/MAP_O_Brussels.pdf Recently, the contact reached out to me. He could not find a solution within the OpenStreetMap community or it's related technology partners. Now I am helping him out looking at new ways to speed up their labour process. I am investigating the qGIS pdf export and it looks promising in combination with the OpenStreetMap plugin but texts come out as letter-outlines instead of fonts and the PDF layers structure is hard to work with. I would like to know if the developers of the layouter/export would be interested in about 2 weeks of work to enhance the layout manager to something that creates pdf that is perfectly fit for post-processing. *1. PROCESSING PROBLEM* This remains almost impossible - only supercomputers are able to deliver an svg-file of a city of reasonable size, and even that is still only a 50% shot. It took us a full night to render a city, and were able to get there only with one of about ten available xml-rulesheets (called z12). How could this be tackled? This one is tackled with the OSM plugin in combination with the PDF export. As far as I can see, the way osm data is presented in qGIS is simplified, but this is good! We don't need shading, outlines and a whole lot of fencies in this fase. The eye-candy will be created in Illustrator. So, as far as I can see; qGIS tackles this issue. *2. LAYER PROBLEM* The svg does not contain separate layers with a clear content (like 'parks', 'roads', 'rivers'). Only the layers 'Map' and 'Map Decoration' appear, but all the information is thrown together in the layer 'Map'. You say it's a matter of someone finding the time to improve this - but who is the best person to address? In the OpenStreetMap data format, there are basically 3 layers: points, lines and polygons. The real layering is organised in attributes called tags. To be more generic; It would be good to push elements to a pdf layer based upon grouping by attribute. In case of openstreetmap data, it would mean applying some rules to strip out the tags into the required attributes and then in the layout manager tell the pdf export to group by attribute column A *3. TYPOGRAPHICAL PROBLEM* Layouters prefer to work with Adobe Illustrator to make maps. It's what they know best, and Inkscape is just not as good yet. Osmarender renders svg files. It is possible to open an svg-file in Illustrator, but then you get typographical problems, illustrated below. Our question: could Osmarender be made to deliver an eps-file (always works in Inkscape AND Illustrator) instead of an svg? This is what happened to a small part of Antwerp (Belgium): SVG IN INKSCAPE opens fine text is fully editable see image 'svg_inkscape' SVG IN ILLUSTRATOR opens upside down and with mistakes text is still editable as text (so it's not flattened), but does not appear on a horizontal path in the street. Furthermore, every letter is on a different path, so it's impossible to select an entire word. see images 'svg_illustrator' and 'svg_illustrator_detail' SVG SAVED AS EPS IN INKSCAPE AND THEN OPENED IN ILLUSTRATOR opens fine text is flattened and not editable anymore, and therefore useless for layout see images 'eps_illustrator' and 'eps_illustrator_detail' ** Again; as far as I can see, it is qGIS to the rescue! The whole process of going from svg through inkscape to Adobe Illustrator is greatly smartened by using PDF export instead. Only one thing is needed here: to export fonts as text and not as letter contours. Horizontal text would be excelent. In that way, the designers can throw away what they do not need and use Illustrators smart tools to make text follow lines and so on. Now, what I would like to know (my contact has some funds to spend on this topic): - Who can I address with my enhancement questions? - Who would be willing to spend about 40 hours on this and at what rate? - Would this fit the roadmap of qGIS development? - Would others like to join up and provide extra funding for this? I am curious to see what responses will be coming! Kind regards, Milo van der Linden +31616598808 ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
