Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Closure of forum, one month on.
Looking at it from the other angle, there appear to have been ~100 threads with replies made to them in the Help section of the forum in March and about the same number for February. So the increase in the GIS.Stackexchange seems to coincide with the former usage of the forums with Nathan's stats. For another (probably more important) metric: On average about 20-30% of the threads in that forum didn't get any replies at all. How many of the GIS.Stackexchange questions are actually being answered? There appear to be 88 tagged unanswered QGIS questions: http://gis.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/qgis Jonathan From: Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com To: Nick Hopton nhop...@gmail.com Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 09/05/2012 10:22 Subject:Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Closure of forum, one month on. Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org So the stats are in for March, April, and some of May, using the query http://data.stackexchange.com/gis/query/68778/how-many-posts-per-month-for-a-tag?TagName=qgis The results are: 02-2012 = 346 03-2012 = 400 04-2012 = 556 05-2012 = 596 Some pretty sharp increases there. - Nathan On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Nick Hopton nhop...@gmail.com wrote: In the last month of its existence about 130 new topics were created on the forum. It appears that during the same period about 54 new topics tagged 'QGIS' were created on Stack Exchange (SE) GIS. It is of course obvious that there has been an increase in QGIS questions on SE following the closure of the forum, but I think it is unlikely that all, or possibly even most, of the people who used to post on the forum have shifted to SE. However, for obvious reasons there can be no firm evidence to support this proposition; usage statistics are not enough. I wish it well and I'm sure that QGIS at SE will suit many of the more experienced QGIS users very nicely, but I'm also sure it will also put off many newcomers and less experienced users who need a friendly place of first contact where they can ask their questions. But that's enough, I seem to be a lone voice in this discussion so I won't push things any further. Nick. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Closure-of-forum-one-month-on-tp4945755p4948730.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 This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Closure of forum, one month on.
If I go here: http://gis.stackexchange.com/tags I see under the QGIS tag: 34 asked this week, 152 this month There are only 560 questions tagged with qgis, so as a proportion that's quite a lot. On that entire page QGIS has easily got the highest asked this week and this month numbers with the arcgis tag being the second (17 and 78 respectively) though highest total questions of all time at 1235 Jonathan From: Paulo van Breugel p.vanbreu...@gmail.com To: Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org, Nick Hopton nhop...@gmail.com Date: 02/05/2012 13:39 Subject:Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Closure of forum, one month on. Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org Nice, is this including all answers? If so, would it be possible to see how many new questions are posted every day? In any case, with the increasing trend in the last couple of month, we need to wait for the data for April (and later) to see if there is any change. I would expect that part of what people post on the forum does not end up on the Stack Exchange as the SE follows a more rigid format (QA), while on the forum could be used for e.g. a less structured exchange of ideas. These exchanges of ideas or whatever you call it might end up somewhere else (not sure where). (I personally think it is a good thing QA are separated from discussions) Paulo On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Nick Hopton nhop...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to determine the number of new questions tagged 'QGIS' asked on Stack Exchange GIS in March and the same for April? Nick. The last query that I just posted should be able to do it once the data is updated to include April. Currently it only includes up till March. The site is updated monthly so it should be there soon. - Nathan ___ 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 This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Only show some of the contours using a query builder
Mostly guessing here but it looks like the query builder in QGIS uses % as its modulo operator. Try more traditional syntax like (this returns no errors in my QGIS): Elevation%25=0 (Although wouldn't you want that to be 100 not 25?) Jonathan From: boesiii boes...@yahoo.com To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 13/04/2012 15:37 Subject:[Qgis-user] Only show some of the contours using a query builder Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org I have a shapefile containing 5 foot contours and I would only like to show 100 foot contours. I am guessing I could use the query builder in the layer properties but I don't know how to write the query. Is this possible? I know how to do this in ArcGIS (MOD ( Elevation, 25) = 0) but the same code does not work in QGIS. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Only-show-some-of-the-contours-using-a-query-builder-tp4878790p4878790.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 This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] QGis Server on Windows
Hi Holger, You can run Apache on Windows Server 2008. However a quick search implies that qgis server and IIS (the built in windows server 2008 web server) probably won't get along: http://www.townshipgis.org/project-background/open-web-mapping/qgis-server It is not clear yet whether machines running the IIS (Windows) web servers will one day be able to run QGIS Server. Though its unclear how old that document is. Jonathan From: Starke Holger, Mag. sta...@hagel.at To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 12/04/2012 10:27 Subject:[Qgis-user] QGis Server on Windows Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org Hello, is it possible to run the qgis-server with a windows server 2008 instead of apache? Holger ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-psc] Re: [Qgis-user] Closure of forum
I think the bigger issue evidenced by this users question is that s/he doesn't know where these things are or that they exist. In my experience the for most non-Open Source software that doesn't come with an expensive support contract, the way you get support is via a forum; that would certainly explain why its the first port of call for new users. A relatively quick win would be the QGIS website making it clear what the avenues are and how to get to them in a nice obvious clean page. Jonathan From: Tim Sutton t...@linfiniti.com To: Gary Sherman gsher...@geoapt.com Cc: qgis-...@lists.osgeo.org, qgis-developer List qgis-develo...@lists.osgeo.org, qgis-user qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 03/04/2012 22:26 Subject:Re: [Qgis-psc] Re: [Qgis-user] Closure of forum Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org Hi On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Gary Sherman gsher...@geoapt.com wrote: I received this from a forum user: I have seen that this forum is closing and I'm wondering where conversations unrelated to questions and answers will go to now? i.e. experiences in using QGIS, directions for development, resources being developed to support QGIS, training events, etc. Don't the mailing lists cover all that? I know email is old school but it works and at least we are not making people use usenet... There is also stackexchange... Regards Tim Your thoughts are appreciated. -gary =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gary Sherman GeoApt LLC http://geoapt.com Founder, Quantum GIS Chair, QGIS PSC Book: http://geospatialdesktop.com We work virtually everywhere =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ___ Qgis-psc mailing list qgis-...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) == Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net == ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-psc] Re: [Qgis-user] Closure of forum
Nice! It's certainly clearer but doesn't have information for the other support vectors (social media if they're supported, plus the IRC). Are they preferred support mediums? Also, on http://www.qgis.org/en/community.html - typo: To get in contact the the QGIS - double the. :-) Jonathan From: Anita Graser anitagra...@gmx.at To: qgis-user qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Cc: qgis-...@lists.osgeo.org, qgis-developer List qgis-develo...@lists.osgeo.org Date: 04/04/2012 12:47 Subject:Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-psc] Re: [Qgis-user] Closure of forum Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org On 4/4/12, jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk wrote: A relatively quick win would be the QGIS website making it clear what the avenues are and how to get to them in a nice obvious clean page. Jonathan That was the aim of my latest changes to http://qgis.org/ Have you seen them yet? I added big buttons that lead to the support channels. Regards, Anita From: Tim Sutton t...@linfiniti.com To: Gary Sherman gsher...@geoapt.com Cc: qgis-...@lists.osgeo.org, qgis-developer List qgis-develo...@lists.osgeo.org, qgis-user qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 03/04/2012 22:26 Subject:Re: [Qgis-psc] Re: [Qgis-user] Closure of forum Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org Hi On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Gary Sherman gsher...@geoapt.com wrote: I received this from a forum user: I have seen that this forum is closing and I'm wondering where conversations unrelated to questions and answers will go to now? i.e. experiences in using QGIS, directions for development, resources being developed to support QGIS, training events, etc. Don't the mailing lists cover all that? I know email is old school but it works and at least we are not making people use usenet... There is also stackexchange... Regards Tim Your thoughts are appreciated. -gary =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gary Sherman GeoApt LLC http://geoapt.com Founder, Quantum GIS Chair, QGIS PSC Book: http://geospatialdesktop.com We work virtually everywhere =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ___ Qgis-psc mailing list qgis-...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) == Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net == ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-developer mailing list qgis-develo...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Oracle Spatial Driver
Just a quick general question - would this be an Oracle Spatial or an Oracle Locator driver? Because (for those who don't know), Oracle give quite a lot of their spatial stuff for free by way of Oracle Locator (it's included in Oracle Enterprise Edition), but there's a expensive extension called Oracle Spatial which adds a lot more functions. Ideally the driver would be able to use the Locator functionality without triggering the Spatial functionality unless that functionality is explicitly requested (Oracle have a weird licensing model - everything is enabled and you can't easily disable it; the onus is on the user not to use the extensions). My thoughts/observations anyway, but I'm not the one paying so... :-) Jonathan From: Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net To: qgis-user qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org, qgis-developer qgis-develo...@lists.osgeo.org Date: 30/03/2012 08:26 Subject:[Qgis-user] Oracle Spatial Driver Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org Hi, The City of Dornbirn and the Province of Vorarlberg have an interest in getting an Oracle Spatial native driver developed for QGIS. They would finance the bulk of the development, but they are interested in other financial contributions if there are other interested commercial or governmental QGIS users with an interest in the access of Oracle databases. Please contact me if you have an interest in helping this project financially. We are not interested in small donations but in more substantial amounts in order not to complicate the billing process too much. Thanks, Andreas -- -- Andreas Neumann Böschacherstrasse 10A 8624 Grüt (Gossau ZH) Switzerland ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Oracle Spatial Driver
I don't know much about Oracle either, only what I've had the misfortune to glean from trying to work with it. I raised it because due to the way that Oracle license, its easy to accidentally use Oracle Spatial functions when you only want to use Oracle Locator (which is a subset of Oracle Spatial functions). There are some pages that compare the two: http://www.spatialdbadvisor.com/oracle_spatial_tips_tricks/55/oracle-locator-vs-enterprise-licensing-the-sdogeom-package/ http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14255/sdo_locator.htm I think from a driver perspective they're identical, but that QGIS shouldn't use any of the Spatial functions unless the user explicitly asks it to. Jonathan From: Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net To: G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com Cc: jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk, qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org, qgis-develo...@lists.osgeo.org Date: 03/04/2012 10:35 Subject:Re: [Qgis-user] Oracle Spatial Driver Hi, Shouldn't the Oracle driver work for both versions? I would assume so, but I may be wrong ... To me (not an oracle specialist) it seems like this is only a licensing difference? Thanks for clarifying, Andreas On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 11:27:26 +0200, G. Allegri wrote: I suppose we're talking about Oracle Spatial, otherwise I don't think it would worth it... giovanni 2012/4/3 Just a quick general question - would this be an Oracle Spatial or an Oracle Locator driver? Because (for those who don't know), Oracle give quite a lot of their spatial stuff for free by way of Oracle Locator (it's included in Oracle Enterprise Edition), but there's a expensive extension called Oracle Spatial which adds a lot more functions. Ideally the driver would be able to use the Locator functionality without triggering the Spatial functionality unless that functionality is explicitly requested (Oracle have a weird licensing model - everything is enabled and you can't easily disable it; the onus is on the user not to use the extensions). My thoughts/observations anyway, but I'm not the one paying so... :-) Jonathan From:Andreas Neumann To:qgis-user , qgis-developer Date:30/03/2012 08:26 Subject:[Qgis-user] Oracle Spatial Driver Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [4] - Hi, The City of Dornbirn and the Province of Vorarlberg have an interest in getting an Oracle Spatial native driver developed for QGIS. They would finance the bulk of the development, but they are interested in other financial contributions if there are other interested commercial or governmental QGIS users with an interest in the access of Oracle databases. Please contact me if you have an interest in helping this project financially. We are not interested in small donations but in more substantial amounts in order not to complicate the billing process too much. Thanks, Andreas -- -- Andreas Neumann Böschacherstrasse 10A 8624 Grüt (Gossau ZH) Switzerland ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org [5] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user [6] This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org [7] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user [8] Links: -- [1] mailto:a.neum...@carto.net [2] mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org [3] mailto:qgis-develo...@lists.osgeo.org [4] mailto:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [5] mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org [6] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user [7] mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org [8] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user [9] mailto:jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk -- -- Andreas Neumann Böschacherstrasse 10A 8624 Grüt (Gossau ZH) Switzerland This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in
Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Closure of forum
Mailing lists, like forums, have advantages and disadvantages. My own issues with mailing lists are: - Some folks have the misfortune of using rubbish mail clients (aka Lotus Notes) and so we have no threading etc. - This email is going to however many thousand people, but 95%+ will have no interest in it. In the case of Forums or StakeExchange or Google Groups, users only see what they have an interest in, rather than being forced to wade through everything. Fundamentally I'm with Bernd though: The issue isn't so much which method is used to get support, the biggest problem is that its scattered across a dozen different methods and there's no easy way to search between them all. No central portal with a decent search and knowledgebase which allows a user to easily find the answer to a question that has been asked before. For myself I'll do a web-search and if the answer doesn't come up, I'll have to ask the community. Things like Facebook and twitter won't turn up in the results. Some forums do, and some mailing lists do (via nabble) but its hit and miss. Tickets don't turn up usually (search engines don't seem to like tickets) but stack overflow does. Of course, searching only works when you know what you're searching for so this is best for non-new users who know much of the terminology. Jonathan From: Nick Hopton nhop...@gmail.com To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 01/04/2012 13:17 Subject:[Qgis-user] Re: Closure of forum Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org It's difficult. The people who don't like forums don't like them because forums don't take a nice, clean, top-down, structured approach. This is true of course, forums are informal, are quite often rambling, but they can also be very friendly places. I don't know how many people have downloaded and installed QGIS over the years. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, perhaps. My guess would be that most of these people were not trained GIS professionals at all and they won't have nice, top-down structured brains. They'll be like me, wanting to start in the middle with something they half-understand and then work outwards from there. I don't think that Stack Exchange will suit them (for reasons that I mentioned earlier) nor I think will this place (Quantum GIS - User). For what it's worth, I still believe that QGIS needs an informal, friendly place of first resort for newcomers and the less-experienced. Everyone has to start somewhere and the most important thing is to get them doing something, anything. Plot a few GPS tracks, trace a few shapes from Google Earth and turn them into a map, anything to get them going. Having said all this, I still don't know about the best way forward. The old forum was good, Google Groups are good too. As suggested, even a new list on Nabble perhaps, informal and aimed at newcomers and the less-experienced, a beginners corner. A new list on Nabble would at least fit into an existing hierarchy, if this is important. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Closure-of-forum-tp4674587p4676332.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 This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Donations - Knowledge mananagment platform
Each medium has its own advantages and disadvantages, however between the lot of them there is one core problem - the information is scattered and fragmented between half a dozen places; you don't end up with a codex of knowledge which everyone can reference which is what I think others were trying to say. I think it's great that users have the choices of forums/stackoverflow, mailing lists, various social media sites, IRC, etc, but what if they want to actually find a piece of information from all of those rather than ask the same question for the nth time? You've got to use a whole bunch of search engines, most of which aren't any good. I'm not really sure if there's a easy solution to this, though I'm kind of inclined towards a wiki that can act as a central codex. I know there is already a wiki, but it's a horrid mess that isn't structured like any other wiki I've ever seen and 99% of the stuff on there looks like its for developers anyway. It's also not good at handling multi-lingual stuff (I end up coming across random articles in other languages rather than everything in one language). Also, now that I look at it, the www.qgis.org web-site only really has clear links to the forums and the chat. It may be an idea to have a very clear need help with QGIS? Contact us via and then a big list with links on the front page, right below the nice big Download button. It really depends on what audience you're targeting though. Jonathan From: Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com To: cavall...@faunalia.it Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 28/03/2012 13:16 Subject:Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Donations - Knowledge mananagment platform Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Also, I think information is getting increasingly fragmented among all media, some of them closed (linkedin, facebook), and this, even if increases our web presence, is not very good. I will have to disagree with this, currently there isn't any information on the other sites that isn't from a known QGIS source (expect maybe linkedin although that is mostly discussion). I think it is very important to maintain a online presence on all these sites in order to communicate with the users of our software in the way they feel most comfortable. I'm not saying that we should copy the wiki content on to facebook, more that we use it as a PR tool in order to drive people to the correct resources, be it blogs, qgis wiki, code etc. If something comes up from the discussion on one of these sites that should be documented on a offical qgis resource page. In my mind the quickest way to turn users off is to force them into a certain means of communication. If you want to chat on IRC, come on and talk; want to chat on Facebook, go right ahead, spread the QGIS word; if you 3 LinkedIn, use that.In the end there are a few of us that watch each site to monitor what is going on and I think, IMHO, it is going really well. - Nathan___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] [OSM-talk] QGIS v MapInfo observations
Much as I dislike MapInfo, that comparison is stacked against the software. Not only is a very old version being used (He's using MapInfo 7.8, apparently released in Sept 2004 ( http://www.sgsi.com/Prod_Soft_MIPro_78.asp)), on top of which its being run in WINE too, which will hardly improve the reliability. I don't doubt QGIS would do well against a modern MapInfo deployment, but lets not be disingenuous here, comparing a 7 year old product to a few week old one isn't exactly going to convince naysayers. From: Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it To: qgis-user qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 07/03/2012 08:48 Subject:[Qgis-user] [OSM-talk] QGIS v MapInfo observations Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2012-March/062139.html Interesting IMHO. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini See: http://www.faunalia.it/pc ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Re: New to QGIS, Best solution?
The paper can be accessed directly with no subscription here: http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~sstein/manuscripts/sstein_freegitools_ecoinf2009.pdf An interesting read. Highlights from the Conclusion: We report that due to the relative youth of the eight evaluated FOS GIS projects, they generally tend to have less overall GIS functionality than proprietary high-end GIS... However, on the positive side they all provide the basic GIS functions needed in LSE[Landscape Ecology]; they are easy to customise; a growing number of specialised functions and plug-ins already exists for specific LSE applications; and there is a growing community of practitioners willing to freely share their ideas, code and expertise. From: Howard Y hayamagu...@gmail.com To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 28/02/2012 14:51 Subject:[Qgis-user] Re: New to QGIS, Best solution? Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org David, Tables 2 and 3 of the following paper have some very nice comparisons of various open source software and ArcGIS 9.3. Steiniger, Stefan, and Geoffrey J. Hay, Free and open source geographic information tools for landscape ecology, Ecological Informatics, Volume 4, Issue 4, September 2009, Pages 183-195. If you can't access their paper, contact the authors and they will send you a PDF of the paper. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/New-to-QGIS-Best-solution-tp4498936p4522509.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 This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Windows Server 2008
Hi Charles, I've had QGIS 1.7.0 running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 (virtual) machine for some time with no discernible problems though I've only been using it for fairly basic things so haven't tested it extensively. Jonathan From: Charlie Bailey cbai...@lorexinc.com To: Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 31/01/2012 19:53 Subject:[Qgis-user] Windows Server 2008 Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org Hello List, I have been running QGIS on both Mac 10.6 and Windows XP machines with great success. It is a marvelous program and learning tool. I?m wondering if it will run as well on a server running Windows Server 2008? Please advise. Thank you, Charles Bailey Art Director Lorex, Inc. 19131 Industrial Blvd - Suite 1 PO Box 474 Elk River MN 55330 Phone 763-746-7361 Toll Free 800-554-3578 Fax 763-441-6243 cbai...@lorexinc.com ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
[Qgis-user] Not-saving QGIS interface changes between restarts
I'm looking to deploy QGIS into an enviroment with some very non-tech-savy users. One of the things I'd like to do is stop any interface changes they make from being saved between sessions, so that every time they start QGIS, everything is in the same place. The sorts of things I'm talking about are closing the layers panel, moving toolbars around, etc. Where does QGIS save these changes? And will QGIS work if I make that location/file read-only? Thanks, Jonathan This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Not-saving QGIS interface changes between restarts
Thanks Gary, it's a set of Windows machines. I'll see if I can figure something out. Jonathan From: Gary Sherman gsher...@geoapt.com To: jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk Cc: Gary Sherman gsher...@geoapt.com, qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 16/11/2011 13:42 Subject:Re: [Qgis-user] Not-saving QGIS interface changes between restarts On Nov 16, 2011, at 4:02 AM, jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk wrote: I'm looking to deploy QGIS into an enviroment with some very non-tech-savy users. One of the things I'd like to do is stop any interface changes they make from being saved between sessions, so that every time they start QGIS, everything is in the same place. The sorts of things I'm talking about are closing the layers panel, moving toolbars around, etc. Where does QGIS save these changes? And will QGIS work if I make that location/file read-only? It depends on your operating system: Linux it is found in: ~/.config/QuantumGIS/QGIS.conf Windows: the registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\QuantumGIS\QGIS Mac: ~/Library/Preferences/org.qgis.QGIS.plist Setting it to read-only on Linux works. The other platforms may be more problematic. -gary =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gary Sherman GeoApt LLC http://geoapt.com Chair, QGIS PSC Books: http://desktopgisbook.com http://qgisbook.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] changing the default behavior for coordinate reference system of new layers in QGIS general options?
+1, though my own take is that the coordinate system should default to the first loaded layer (ala ArcGIS), though an option somewhere to specify default behaviour would be good, just so long as the current behaviour changes. Jonathan From: Ramon Andiñach cust...@westnet.com.au To: qgis-user qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 19/10/2011 22:18 Subject:Re: [Qgis-user] changing the default behavior for coordinate reference system of new layers in QGIS general options? Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org On 19/10/2011, at 23:36, Dennis M. Linton den...@dmlinton.net wrote: On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 16:33 +0200, Micha Silver wrote: On 10/19/2011 04:20 PM, Ricardo Filipe Soares Garcia da wrote: Giovanni Manghi giovanni.man...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I would like to know your opinion about the above question. My point of view, after giving many training courses, is that the default option should be changed to prompt for CRS, eventually adding a checkbox in the dialog windows that pops up, to avoid being asked over and over for the reminder of the session. +1 from me as well It is usually the first setting that I change whenever I install QGIS on a new machine. I also think this is the right approach. I don't like programs hiding the gritty details, rather, user's should be confronted with the question, forcing them to understand a bit better... +1 for me too. As an engineer without particular GIS expertise but for whom QGIS provides a very useful resource, being forced into correct procedures is definitely a good idea. I have spent more than my share of time trying to figure out, and correct, things like Ontario, Canada being displayed in two places at once or all of the roads in Ontario being displayed encompassed by Moira Lake. +1 here too. Once I found this setting, it's something that gets changed on every install that I do. -ramon. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Creating Geological Maps
Hi Gerhardus, Just to clarify on image file formats a little: JPEG - Best used with photos. You're correct that it loses quality when compressed. This is called lossy compression. PNG - Also commonly used with photos, the compression with this is lossless, so you can set it as high as you like and no quality will be lost. Generally speaking while good for storing general imagery, the above two formats don't typically hold spatial information so aren't used in a GIS. TIF (also TIFF) - There's about a trillion different types of TIF file format features. This is the file type that in the GIS world is commonly used to store raster imagery. There are others, but this one is the most supported, even if different aspects are supported by different applications. By default they're uncompressed, but they can be compressed using a number of methods, LZW compression is a popular choice and is lossless. TIFs themselves don't always store spatial information but may come with a world file (tfw or tab format) which is a small text file which contains that information. Some TIFs do store spatial information within the TIF file itself and these are called GeoTIFFs. Some (geo)tiffs can also store pyramids - these make large rasters display faster when zoomed out. Hopefully that clears things up a little. Regards, Jonathan From: Gerhardus Geldenhuis gerhardus.geldenh...@gmail.com To: t...@wildintellect.com Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 16/10/2011 22:26 Subject:Re: [Qgis-user] Creating Geological Maps Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote: On 10/16/2011 01:32 PM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote: Just to check, do you have projection on-the-fly turned on? For best image quality the image needs to be in it's native projection. Though in this case it sounds like you just opened the image file to look at it. How does it look in something like GIMP when you zoom in? Hi Alex Many thanks for the reply! No idea if I have project on-the-fly turned on, I could not see any reference to it in the project properties or options. Native projection? I scanned the paper images and the scanner saved them as jpeg files. I then opened up the images in The Gimp rotated and aligned the to a drawing grid in Gimp because they were about 1 degree skewed. I had pencilled lines on the paper that represented UTM grid lines. I saved these as both jpg and png format both in lowest compression thus highest quality. Viewing either the jpg or png file in Gimp or Image Viewer is fine and if I zoom in to 1:1 scale the quality is perfect. Second question is how can I align this png file with with an actual co-ordinate system. I have marked 4 points on my paper maps and lines between these points that represent the UTM grid on which I worked and I would need to at least roughly align this image with the UTM grid. Georeferencing plugin, this will turn your tiff into a GeoTiff, the same as what you might get from preprocessed ASTER data. You can mark and enter known coordinate locations and then warp the image to fit. That sounds excellent I am going to try that now. Thirdly I am not sure how to draw on a new layer but still view my image as a template for the digitizing. I am more than happy to read any documentation and work through tutorials. What is lacking at the moment is the terminology to search for the correct things and experience. I am working through a number of tutorials but are still struggling a bit to connect A to B. Read the manual on the QGIS website, create a new vector layer and editing it can be over anything else you have loaded in the map view. http://qgis.org/en/documentation/manuals.html I will eventually add some ASTER imagery but it is my understanding that these are in tiff format and contains extra information like spatial referencing. I suspect that if I can master the above then adding ASTER imagery will be easy. Lastly is there any geological map symbol databases available? It's been discussed and some work has been done on it but nothing comprehensive yet. If you have Images or Fonts of the symbols you want you can easily convert them for use in QGIS. A shame, I have send of an email to the British Geological Survey and see what they come back with. I might have access to the ArcGIS and could load the images database provided by the US Geological Survey. Not sure if ArcGIS would allow me to export it into something more usable. My google results turned up an email thread which suggested that there was some work done on supporting gdb files... Regards -- Gerhardus Geldenhuis___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively
[Qgis-user] File-based Mastermap
I need to deploy four stand-alone laptops with a basic GIS (data viewing only) and have chosen QGIS for this. The data held is for the entire county of Warwickshire, and one of the datasets I need to put on there is MasterMap. Specifically the datasets I'm using are: Topographic line: 3.7 million features Topographic Area: 1.3 million features Cartographic Text: 250,000 features Given the dataset size, obviously the first choice is a database, but as these are stand-alone laptops that must have the simplest setup possible (they're going to be used out in the field away from tech-support) I've ruled that option out. I tried shapefile's but it turns out that spatial indexes in Shapefiles are an ESRI-only thing, so the dataset takes literally minutes to load per pan. Can anyone can suggest a format I could use that would allow fluid viewing of this data in QGIS? I have access to FME, so can convert to pretty much any format. Thanks, Jonathan This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] File-based Mastermap
Thanks for the flurry of responses folks. There's an interesting variety there. SpatiaLite would probably be the optimal solution; FME does have a reader/writer for it SQLite Spatial(FDO) plus SQLite Non-spatial, though I'm not clear if this is the same thing as SpatiaLite. However, it's not a format I'm familiar with (definitely going to have to look into it though), and because I need simplicity first and foremost, I've used Jason's create spatial index which worked great. Thanks to all respondents, Jonathan From: Saber Razmjooei razmjoo...@faunalia.co.uk To: jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 28/09/2011 10:46 Subject:Re: [Qgis-user] File-based Mastermap You can use PostGIS. Just need to install it locally and import all your data to localhost. You can use Virtual Raster for 10k, 25k and 50k OS. And use zoom dependency to turn the layers on and off on different zooms. In QGIS, you can convert to all sorts of vector format supported by OGR/GDAL as well. Cheers Saber I need to deploy four stand-alone laptops with a basic GIS (data viewing only) and have chosen QGIS for this. The data held is for the entire county of Warwickshire, and one of the datasets I need to put on there is MasterMap. Specifically the datasets I'm using are: Topographic line: 3.7 million features Topographic Area: 1.3 million features Cartographic Text: 250,000 features Given the dataset size, obviously the first choice is a database, but as these are stand-alone laptops that must have the simplest setup possible (they're going to be used out in the field away from tech-support) I've ruled that option out. I tried shapefile's but it turns out that spatial indexes in Shapefiles are an ESRI-only thing, so the dataset takes literally minutes to load per pan. Can anyone can suggest a format I could use that would allow fluid viewing of this data in QGIS? I have access to FME, so can convert to pretty much any format. Thanks, Jonathan This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Pan/Zoom to co-ordinates
I'm guessing those aren't default plugins but I have found them on the repository. Thanks. From: Alister Hood alister.h...@synergine.com To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Cc: jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk Date: 03/08/2011 00:06 Subject:Re: [Qgis-user] Pan/Zoom to co-ordinates There are also two zoom-to-point plugins, which allow you to enter a scale factor (rather than an actual scale, which you can enter in the status bar. Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:10:57 +0100 From: Saber Razmjooei razmjoo...@faunalia.co.uk Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Pan/Zoom to co-ordinates To: jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Message-ID: 1312297857.2115.1.camel@ioio Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 You can type the coordinate in the status bar (hit enter) and it centres your map there. After that, you can save it as a bookmark. Cheers Saber On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 16:04 +0100, jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk wrote: Simple question - Does QGIS have a Pan/Zoom to coordinates feature? There are a number of pan/zoom tools but I've not found anything that can do that. Thanks, Jonathan This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] free DEM data in QGis
Hi Torsten, If your question is how do you get the (SRTM) data, try something like: http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/NewEarthExplorer/ - Earth Explorer from the USGS Or http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/ - or various other places. If you just want to use it as a basemap then I'm guessing you just add it like a regular raster. If you want to use it to drape other data over so you can do 3D I'm not sure if QGIS could do that or if it would be the best solution - there are other open-source GIS's for that. Hope that helps. Jonathan From: Torsten Lange tla...@gwdg.de To: Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 02/08/2011 23:55 Subject:[Qgis-user] free DEM data in QGis Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org Hi! I'm novice to use free DEM data. I work on a medium (~60km) scale area in Germany. It's basically about geology. As don't need accurate DEM data for the time being I read through google that gtopo30 or (even better ?) DTED data from German Aerospace Center may be utilized, which are all free of charge. Actually I don't know where to start. Could anyone please give some comments about how would be the general procedure to load those data into QGis? Useful links are appreciated. Thanks in advance, Torsten ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
[Qgis-user] Pan/Zoom to co-ordinates
Simple question - Does QGIS have a Pan/Zoom to coordinates feature? There are a number of pan/zoom tools but I've not found anything that can do that. Thanks, Jonathan This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] format for raster data distribution, JP2?
Hi John, Another option would be to use WCS (Web Coverage Service), the lesser-known sibling of WFS and WMS. Where WFS is designed to distribute Vector data, WCS is designed for Rasters. Up-take has been slower than the other two, but there are a several open-source tools for serving it (i.e. GeoServer, MapServer), and one or two for reading it (i.e. GvSIG, GDAL). See - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Web_Coverage_Service Jonathan From: John Callahan john.calla...@udel.edu To: OSGeo Discussions disc...@lists.osgeo.org, qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 15/07/2011 19:58 Subject:[Qgis-user] format for raster data distribution, JP2? Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org I'm looking for advice on sharing raster data for download. We distribute several raster datasets such as DEMs and orthophotography. Sometimes these are divided into rectangular tiles, sometimes by geography/boundaries. Most of our audience has some level of GIS or CAD experience. We also have WMS services but there are many times where people need the actual data files. I had been creating JP2 files using JP2ECW compression. Great file size reduction with very good quality. However, I'm thinking it may be difficult for people to view these (and more difficult for me to create) due to the restrictions on the codec distribution. The other JP2 options, OpenJPEG and libjasper, seems like they also require users to obtain this codec/driver and install into the software first. Same for the commercial Kakadu and MrSID. netCDF is great but not widely supported; IMG are good but not any advantage over TIFs (except for 4 GB file sizes) Since I want to serve the widest possible audience (and not cater only to our Windows/ArcGIS audience), I'm down to serving TIFs with JPEG compression at around quality=75, which is what I started with years ago! Good quality, decent compression, wide support. Is this the best bet? Is there something else out there I'm overlooking? - John *** John Callahan, Research Scientist Delaware Geological Survey University of Delaware URL: http://www.dgs.udel.edu *** ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
[Qgis-user] ECW Projection
Just wondering if the project was aware of this as part of their ongoing ECW issues, but when you load a geo-referenced ECW into QGIS, it doesn't actually get properly referenced. Even if you manually set the projection for both the layer and the project it remains un-referenced with QGIS giving 0,0 co-ords to the top-left of the image. This same ECW works fine in GvSIG, Kosmo, MapWindow and ArcGIS. It's projected to EPSG: 27700. Jonathan This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] ECW Projection
I downloaded GDAL to test it, but of course it turns out you need a plugin to read ECW's which requires at least three different other things to be installed, so I'm afraid I'm not able to oblige that. The original file is far too large to send, so I clipped it, but unfortunately the clip works within QGIS, so I'm not sure how you'll test it, but see attached for it anyway From: Jean-Claude Repetto jcr...@mxm.eu To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 13/07/2011 14:46 Subject:Re: [Qgis-user] ECW Projection Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org Le 13/07/2011 15:35, jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk a écrit : Just wondering if the project was aware of this as part of their ongoing ECW issues, but when you load a geo-referenced ECW into QGIS, it doesn't actually get properly referenced. Even if you manually set the projection for both the layer and the project it remains un-referenced with QGIS giving 0,0 co-ords to the top-left of the image. This same ECW works fine in GvSIG, Kosmo, MapWindow and ArcGIS. It's projected to EPSG: 27700. Jonathan What does gdalinfo report about this file ? Can you provide a small sample ? ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. Aerial_2006.ecw Description: Binary data ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] ECW Projection
I can confirm my file has a .ecw.aux.xml If I remove the .xml from the file name it does work in qgis. Thanks Jonathan From: Giovanni Manghi giovanni.man...@gmail.com To: jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 13/07/2011 16:15 Subject:Re: [Qgis-user] ECW Projection Just wondering if the project was aware of this as part of their ongoing ECW issues, but when you load a geo-referenced ECW into QGIS, it doesn't actually get properly referenced. Even if you manually set the projection for both the layer and the project it remains un-referenced with QGIS giving 0,0 co-ords to the top-left of the image. This same ECW works fine in GvSIG, Kosmo, MapWindow and ArcGIS. It's projected to EPSG: 27700. I was chatting a while ago with W. Macho and it was saying to me that it had a similar problem, with all his ECWs rasters to render on top of each other, as they don't had any referencing. A few tests and we find the issue. It depends on the extension of the file that (I guess) define the referencing. If the file is .aux then it si fine for gdal, if it is .aux.xml (if I recall correctly) it seems that gdal can't read the referencing. cheers -- Giovanni -- This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs
HI Alex, Thanks for that. I actually already have an osgeo account and am reminded that it wasn't obvious how to use it previously (I forgot the password and it took me a few days to figure out how to get a new one (you have to email them)). OSGeo is a very nice idea as a central repository kind of thing for their projects, but it would be nice if they'd make it a little more user friendly. Jonathan From: Alister Hood alister.h...@synergine.com To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org, jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk Date: 07/07/2011 23:33 Subject:Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs Hi guys, Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 15:45:39 +0100 From: jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs To: Lee muell...@gmail.com Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Message-ID: OFA65109EA.F31FAC0B-ON802578C6.0050B8DE-802578C6.00511915@LocalDomain Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Lee, Yep, you're probably right about belonging on the dev list (I'll probably do that later when I have the time). I'd have preferred to put them (at least the apparently bugs) onto the bugs tracker directly but of course I can't seem to create an account. At http://hub.qgis.org/ it says: Get your account set up¶ To edit content on this site (including creating tickets), you need to get an OSGEO login here: http://www.osgeo.org/osgeo_userid; I guess this would be harder to miss if there was a link at the top right next to Sign in though... Alister This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
[Qgis-user] Bugs
Hi Guys, A few bugs with QGIS 1.7.0. Unfortunately there's no obvious way to actually create an account or report bugs on your bug tracker so I'm forced to post them here. 1) I have a ~600MB raster in JP2000 format (*.jp2). QGIS doesn't seem to be able to load this, at least not in a timely manner. It spent at least 5 mins sitting there eating 100% CPU and using quite a bit of RAM. I also have a ~4GB ECW file which similar things happen with. Both files are projected (OSGB - 27700) and I'm fairly sure they have pyramids. MapInfo, ArcGIS, MapModeller (all proprietary), and MapWindow (Open Source) are all capable of displaying both images in fractions of a second. This is on a Windows 2008 R2 Machine. 2) I load a shapefile that's projected in British National Grid into QGIS. The built in QGIS scale shows degrees rather than metres as the measurement unit despite showing 0 to 30,000 numerically (so it is showing metres, it's just incorrectly saying degrees. This is to a new map that has no other layers added. 3) Why is there a (c) QGIS 2011 in the bottom right of the map viewer? 99% + of other programs use the Help-About page for that. Jonathan This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs
Hi Andreas, Nathan Thanks for the prompt Replies. the infrastructure was just changed recently. Did you try on http://hub.qgis.org/ - personally I don't know how the accounts are handled. The old accounts from trac.osgeo.org were migrated. This in turn points to the same bugs page. It allows sign in, but there's no register button that I can see. Personally, I would really stay away from proprietary formats like ecw and mrsid. In principle I agree, but this is one of the few formats that's supported across all our applications internally (the other being JP2000), so it's what we've put our data into. We can easily convert the data into pretty much any raster format at any time as it's almost all sourced from Ordnance Survey TIF's, but we'd prefer not to have multiple versions of each raster. JP2000 seems to be a fairly open standard (it's ISO defined), even if it doesn't have much uptake. I've found a smaller ECW file - 27MB. QGIS hangs for a little over a minute when loading this. Extrapolating that up to the 4GB file gives 2.5hrs to load it! QGIS is also using an absurd amount of RAM (~700MB) just to display this single layer. ArcMap tells me this file is 260.35 MB uncompressed. However, following Nathan's suggestion, I have disabled the Contrast Enhancement, and it is now loading all of the aforementioned rasters just fine. It's also not using absurd amounts of RAM. I'd humbly suggest making this the default. Did you set the projection of your QGIS project? It sounds like this is set to WGS84/degrees. Try to set it to your british national grid and it will probably work fine. Nope. I'm lazy and used to applications automatically detecting the projection of the first layer added and using that for the project (aka ArcGIS) ;-) . After some fiddling I found 27700 and it's now correctly showing km. But it would be nice if it picked up the projection from the first dataset, you can always change it later. This is because you probably enabled the Copyright plugin, which is not enabled by default, I think. I haven't changed any of the plugins (or indeed, any settings whatsoever), they're all on default. I suspected it was for showing your own copyright, but couldn't see it in the options page. Even now that I know where it is (plugins), there's no obvious way to change the text, only enable/disable it via manage plugins. Not that this is important to me, it's just weird having someone else's copyright on my map by default. Thanks again, Jonathan From: Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 07/07/2011 14:15 Subject:Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org Hi Jonathan, I can only partially answer your questions/remarks. A few bugs with QGIS 1.7.0. Unfortunately there's no obvious way to actually create an account or report bugs on your bug tracker so I'm forced to post them here. the infrastructure was just changed recently. Did you try on http://hub.qgis.org/ - personally I don't know how the accounts are handled. The old accounts from trac.osgeo.org were migrated. 1) I have a ~600MB raster in JP2000 format (*.jp2). QGIS doesn't seem to be able to load this, at least not in a timely manner. It spent at least 5 mins sitting there eating 100% CPU and using quite a bit of RAM. I also have a ~4GB ECW file which similar things happen with. Both files are projected (OSGB - 27700) and I'm fairly sure they have pyramids. MapInfo, ArcGIS, MapModeller (all proprietary), and MapWindow (Open Source) are all capable of displaying both images in fractions of a second. There has been a lot of mail recently about the problems with ecw. Personally, I would really stay away from proprietary formats like ecw and mrsid. You will never know when those companies changed their policies and if they care about compatibility with OS GIS. I personally use TIFF files (bigtiff files are more or less unlimited in size), and you can choose between different compressions in the tiff, like jpeg, deflate, zip, packbits, etc. These files usually work fine. I never had any issues. Back 2-3 years I also experimented with ecw and always ran into issues with software upgrades. This doesn't mean that the bug should not be fixed, but it is a recommendation about storing your data. 2) I load a shapefile that's projected in British National Grid into QGIS. The built in QGIS scale shows degrees rather than metres as the measurement unit despite showing 0 to 30,000 numerically (so it is showing metres, it's just incorrectly saying degrees. This is to a new map that has no other layers added. Did you set the projection of your QGIS project? It sounds like this is set to WGS84/degrees. Try to set it to your british national grid and it will probably work fine. 3) Why is there a (c) QGIS 2011 in the bottom right of the map viewer? 99% + of other
Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs
Hi Both, Yep, this does it. Thanks. Jonathan From: uk52rob uk52...@yahoo.co.uk To: jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 07/07/2011 15:36 Subject:Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs Jonathan, I haven't changed any of the plugins (or indeed, any settings whatsoever), they're all on default. I suspected it was for showing your own copyright, but couldn't see it in the options page. Even now that I know where it is (plugins), there's no obvious way to change the text, only enable/disable it via manage plugins. Not that this is important to me, it's just weird having someone else's copyright on my map by default. To change the copyright plugin settings, ensure the ?Plugins? toolbar is shown, and this should show a copyright symbol. Click on that and the settings will appear. Regards, Rob This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately. All email traffic sent to or from us, including without limitation all GCSX traffic, may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs
Lee, Yep, you're probably right about belonging on the dev list (I'll probably do that later when I have the time). I'd have preferred to put them (at least the apparently bugs) onto the bugs tracker directly but of course I can't seem to create an account. Incidentally, the ECW issue wasn't related to ECW's, but was a limitation of QGIS and it's default settings (it happened with the open JP2's too). Now that I've changed the setting per Nathan's suggestion, ECW's are working fine. Jonathan From: Lee muell...@gmail.com To: jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk Cc: Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net, Nathan Woodrow madman...@gmail.com, qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date: 07/07/2011 15:27 Subject:Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs I recommend some of your comments for changes/incorporated ideas be directed to the qgis developer list-serv. This listserv is primarily utilized by users of the program for quick help and questions. Although I'm sure some of the developers peruse it . I agree with Andreas. When it comes to open-source software there can generally be some issues with proprietary formats. When the formats are changed, or the distribution arrangements are altered, there is usually some period of time lapse before they can adequately be adopted. If this is an issue, I recommend communicating your concerns with those companies that provide the formats and encourage them to standardize in a fashion that can easily be utilized by the open source community. Personally, I generally convert all my ECW's to another format in case the SDK changes again (which is the problem many users are currently dealing with). On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:10 AM, jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk wrote: Hi Andreas, Nathan Thanks for the prompt Replies. the infrastructure was just changed recently. Did you try on http://hub.qgis.org/- personally I don't know how the accounts are handled. The old accounts from trac.osgeo.org were migrated. This in turn points to the same bugs page. It allows sign in, but there's no register button that I can see. Personally, I would really stay away from proprietary formats like ecw and mrsid. In principle I agree, but this is one of the few formats that's supported across all our applications internally (the other being JP2000), so it's what we've put our data into. We can easily convert the data into pretty much any raster format at any time as it's almost all sourced from Ordnance Survey TIF's, but we'd prefer not to have multiple versions of each raster. JP2000 seems to be a fairly open standard (it's ISO defined), even if it doesn't have much uptake. I've found a smaller ECW file - 27MB. QGIS hangs for a little over a minute when loading this. Extrapolating that up to the 4GB file gives 2.5hrs to load it! QGIS is also using an absurd amount of RAM (~700MB) just to display this single layer. ArcMap tells me this file is 260.35 MB uncompressed. However, following Nathan's suggestion, I have disabled the Contrast Enhancement, and it is now loading all of the aforementioned rasters just fine. It's also not using absurd amounts of RAM. I'd humbly suggest making this the default. Did you set the projection of your QGIS project? It sounds like this is set to WGS84/degrees. Try to set it to your british national grid and it will probably work fine. Nope. I'm lazy and used to applications automatically detecting the projection of the first layer added and using that for the project (aka ArcGIS) ;-) . After some fiddling I found 27700 and it's now correctly showing km. But it would be nice if it picked up the projection from the first dataset, you can always change it later. This is because you probably enabled the Copyright plugin, which is not enabled by default, I think. I haven't changed any of the plugins (or indeed, any settings whatsoever), they're all on default. I suspected it was for showing your own copyright, but couldn't see it in the options page. Even now that I know where it is (plugins), there's no obvious way to change the text, only enable/disable it via manage plugins. Not that this is important to me, it's just weird having someone else's copyright on my map by default. Thanks again, Jonathan From:Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net To:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Date:07/07/2011 14:15 Subject:Re: [Qgis-user] Bugs Sent by:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org Hi Jonathan, I can only partially answer your questions/remarks. A few bugs with QGIS 1.7.0. Unfortunately there's no obvious way to actually create an account or report bugs on your bug tracker so I'm forced to post them here. the infrastructure was just changed recently. Did you try on http://hub.qgis.org/- personally I don't know how the accounts are handled. The old accounts from trac.osgeo.org were migrated. 1) I have a ~600MB raster in JP2000 format
