Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:33 PM, pcr...@pcreso.com wrote: Is it possible to have a second transparent map canvas, analogous to the Mapinfo cosmetic layer. This would allow, for example, a complex background map to remain static so a gps layer in the new canvas can be quickly refreshed without refreshing the entire map all the background layers, unless, of couser, the map extent changes. There are several times I've made simple changes to a small layer QGIS takes some time to re-render everything, when 99% of the refresh doesn't actually change anything. This could be accomplished by having two map canvases, so users could add static layers to the bottom one more dynamic ones to the top one, to suit their needs. This is already possible. But instead of cosmetic layer we talk about canvas items: map canvas contains rendered map and optionally any number of other map canvas items (see QgsMapCanvasItem class). Canvas items can be updated whenever needed and no re-render of map is required. Also rubber band (see QgsRubberBand) which is used for measuring distances and areas is a canvas item. Martin ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
Hi Martin Even more work is underway! We're going to release a native C++ OpenStreetMap provider for QGIS in few days. It will come also with OSM downloader and (very experimental) upload. That is great news! I can't wait to do some OSM mapping with QGIS :-) Regards, Marco Am Samstag 31 Januar 2009 20:28:27 schrieb Martin Dobias: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Florian Hillen ha scritto: first of all I want to thank everybody for the input an the suggestions. Some plugins are a bit to extensive for my bachelor thesis (I can maximal write about 40 pages), so I pick up the suggestion with the OpenStreetMap plugin and modify it a little. I'm glad of this. Please keep in touch with the community of devs: more effort is underway, eg http://gis-lab.info/programs/qgis/qgis-repo.xml Even more work is underway! We're going to release a native C++ OpenStreetMap provider for QGIS in few days. It will come also with OSM downloader and (very experimental) upload. Creating another OSM plugin would therefore cause just code duplication. Regards Martin ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- Dr. Marco Hugentobler Institute of Cartography ETH Zurich Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Christopher Barker chris.bar...@noaa.gov wrote: Paolo Cavallini wrote: I've always been confused by that. But anyway, you could do it with Open Street Map tiles. Better take the vector data from OSM (see my previous suggestion): you can do more with that. Not if you want a nice streetmap as a basemap for something else -- it would take a lot of work to get QGIS to draw a map nearly as nice as the OSM ones. Indeed, I don't think it's possible. Chris, could you please explain your statement why it isn't possible? Martin ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
RE: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
I assume he was talking about trying to recreate the nice Mapnik generated styling (labeling etc) that is found on the OSM website. I think it would be pretty much impossible to create such styling with the current state of labeling etc. A -Original Message- From: qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Martin Dobias Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 4:01 PM To: Christopher Barker Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin? On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Christopher Barker chris.bar...@noaa.gov wrote: Paolo Cavallini wrote: I've always been confused by that. But anyway, you could do it with Open Street Map tiles. Better take the vector data from OSM (see my previous suggestion): you can do more with that. Not if you want a nice streetmap as a basemap for something else -- it would take a lot of work to get QGIS to draw a map nearly as nice as the OSM ones. Indeed, I don't think it's possible. Chris, could you please explain your statement why it isn't possible? Martin ___ 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] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
Hi Andreas Neumann wrote: I also thought it may be possible to use the Google maps data from within QGIS. One could probably use a hidden Webkit to make Google think it is a regular webbrowser that is requesting the tiles - and then merge and potentially reproject the GoogleMap tiles to use it as a regular background layer in QGIS. Viking [1] offers google maps (in their various flavours) as a background map and it's code is licensed under the GPL. [1] http://viking.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page Jacolin Yves wrote: This is forbidden by the Google user licence. Noted. Craig ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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There's a work in progress with Python and OSM, maybe it could be of interest for your development: http://code.google.com/p/osmlab/ giovanni 2009/1/31 Florian Hillen fhil...@uni-osnabrueck.de: Dear mailing list, first of all I want to thank everybody for the input an the suggestions. Some plugins are a bit to extensive for my bachelor thesis (I can maximal write about 40 pages), so I pick up the suggestion with the OpenStreetMap plugin and modify it a little. Sometimes I'm in the situation, that I want to show somebody a track or something, but didn't have the appropriate background data. There are some ways to receive a shp from OSM-Data, but I think it's a lot more comfortable and maybe faster if it's implemented in QGIS as a plugin. So my plan is to build a plugin, that transforms OSM-Data to shp (either with an existing .osm file or with a given extend) and add a new layer (or many layers) to QGIS. If anybody knows that this plugin is already developed, please contact me! Thanks to everybody again and hopefully some of you will use my plugin in the future (even though I know that the plugin is more for private use than for commercial). Best regards, Florian ___ 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] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
10.1 access or use the Service or any Content through any technology or means other than those provided in the Service, or through other explicitly authorized means Google may designate; So even the OL google layer is out-of-law... ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
Le samedi 31 janvier 2009, G. Allegri a écrit : 10.1 access or use the Service or any Content through any technology or means other than those provided in the Service, or through other explicitly authorized means Google may designate; So even the OL google layer is out-of-law... OL is using Google API js, that's why it need javascript API link + google Key. In other words OL is using the one provided by the service by Google. Y. -- Yves Jacolin - Donner la liberté aux individus ne suffit pas, il faut aussi leur donner du pouvoir, de la puissance d'agir. M Gauchet Give freedom to people is not enough, we also have to give them the power to use this freedom, to act. M Gauchet - http://yjacolin.gloobe.org http://softlibre.gloobe.org ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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It's OT, we should open another thread... Anyway, it's not so clear. When the Google license says technology or means other than those provided in the Service what does it refer to exactly? OL is a mean other than the google.maps interface... I'm not a lawyer, so I ask it just to be sure. 2009/1/31 Yves Jacolin (free) yjaco...@free.fr: Le samedi 31 janvier 2009, G. Allegri a écrit : 10.1 access or use the Service or any Content through any technology or means other than those provided in the Service, or through other explicitly authorized means Google may designate; So even the OL google layer is out-of-law... OL is using Google API js, that's why it need javascript API link + google Key. In other words OL is using the one provided by the service by Google. Y. -- Yves Jacolin - Donner la liberté aux individus ne suffit pas, il faut aussi leur donner du pouvoir, de la puissance d'agir. M Gauchet Give freedom to people is not enough, we also have to give them the power to use this freedom, to act. M Gauchet - http://yjacolin.gloobe.org http://softlibre.gloobe.org ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
Florian Hillen ha scritto: first of all I want to thank everybody for the input an the suggestions. Some plugins are a bit to extensive for my bachelor thesis (I can maximal write about 40 pages), so I pick up the suggestion with the OpenStreetMap plugin and modify it a little. I'm glad of this. Please keep in touch with the community of devs: more effort is underway, eg http://gis-lab.info/programs/qgis/qgis-repo.xml Thanks to everybody again and hopefully some of you will use my plugin in the future (even though I know that the plugin is more for private use than for commercial). I'll do. pc -- 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
Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Florian Hillen ha scritto: first of all I want to thank everybody for the input an the suggestions. Some plugins are a bit to extensive for my bachelor thesis (I can maximal write about 40 pages), so I pick up the suggestion with the OpenStreetMap plugin and modify it a little. I'm glad of this. Please keep in touch with the community of devs: more effort is underway, eg http://gis-lab.info/programs/qgis/qgis-repo.xml Even more work is underway! We're going to release a native C++ OpenStreetMap provider for QGIS in few days. It will come also with OSM downloader and (very experimental) upload. Creating another OSM plugin would therefore cause just code duplication. Regards Martin ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
Martin Dobias ha scritto: Even more work is underway! We're going to release a native C++ OpenStreetMap provider for QGIS in few days. It will come also with OSM downloader and (very experimental) upload. Creating another OSM plugin would therefore cause just code duplication. That's quite a surprise! Great. So Florian (and Maxim), I think you better move to another subject (fortunately there are many suggestions). All the best. pc -- 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
Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
Andreas, Le Friday 30 January 2009 08:40:48 Andreas Neumann, vous avez écrit : I also thought it may be possible to use the Google maps data from within QGIS. One could probably use a hidden Webkit to make Google think it is a regular webbrowser that is requesting the tiles - and then merge and potentially reproject the GoogleMap tiles to use it as a regular background layer in QGIS. This is forbidden by the Google user licence. Y. -- Yves Jacolin --- http://softlibre.gloobe.org ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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Le Thursday 29 January 2009 23:36:35 Giovanni Manghi, vous avez écrit : Hi Florian. Of course there are thousands of interesting things to do. I put y preferred ones: - an OpenStreetMap reader and writer; there is a proof of concept by Martin, who I believe is also interested in carrying the work on: http://www.mapserver.sk/~wonder/qgis/plugins-sandbox.xml http://www.faunalia.it/qgis/ - an animal Home Range toolbox. We have a long-standing and slow-running project, called Animove, and it would be great to add different analyses to a toolbox. Have a look to: http://www.faunalia.it/animove/ and https://www.faunalia.it/dokuwiki/doku.php/public/animove_qgis_plugins if you are interested (I'm currently reorganizing the pages). There is also the ogr2layers plugin http://ogr2layers.org that seems to have been abandoned (and the developers do not reply to contact mails). It would be nice to have it back in 1.0 perhaps with a few of the features described in the original todo list http://ogr2layers.org/todo.html take care -- Giovanni -- Giovanni, I know him, I am going to mail him (may be he subscribes here ?) Y. -- Yves Jacolin --- http://softlibre.gloobe.org ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
Hi, the two things which let me use ArcGIS are: 1- a better labelling method. A plugin to render correctly labels would make the difference. 2- The geostatistical analyst is a quick and easy way to make kriged maps, and explore interpolated datas. Le jeudi 29 janvier 2009 à 17:52 +0100, Florian Hillen a écrit : Dear mailing list. Concerning my bachelor thesis in geoinformatics I am thinking about developing a useful plugin for QGIS. Using QGIS quiet frequently, I was not missing a feature so far, but maybe anyone of you can imagine a missing functionality!? I appreciate all kinds of suggestions or any idea that could help. Best regards, Florian ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- Lionel Roubeyrie chargé d'études LIMAIR - La Surveillance de l'Air en Limousin http://www.limair.asso.fr ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 17:52 +0100, Florian Hillen wrote: Dear mailing list. Concerning my bachelor thesis in geoinformatics I am thinking about developing a useful plugin for QGIS. Using QGIS quiet frequently, I was not missing a feature so far, but maybe anyone of you can imagine a missing functionality!? I appreciate all kinds of suggestions or any idea that could help. Best regards, Florian 1. Smart labeling engine 2. A tool that creates as many new vector maps as the number of areas (=closed polygons) in a given vector map. For example, I have a map with with 10 digitised lakes. For some reason I would like a new map for each lake without going through a select+save as process for each lake. Kind Regards, Nikos ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
Hi Nikos, Concerning my bachelor thesis in geoinformatics I am thinking about developing a useful plugin for QGIS. Using QGIS quiet frequently, I was not missing a feature so far, but maybe anyone of you can imagine a missing functionality!? I appreciate all kinds of suggestions or any idea that could help. Best regards, Florian 1. Smart labeling engine I think this is in the works to some degree... 2. A tool that creates as many new vector maps as the number of areas (=closed polygons) in a given vector map. For example, I have a map with with 10 digitised lakes. For some reason I would like a new map for each lake without going through a select+save as process for each lake. By vector map do you mean vector layer? If so, then fTools has this functionality already, using the 'split vector layer tool' under 'data management'. Carson ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 14:53 +, Carson Farmer wrote: Hi Nikos, Concerning my bachelor thesis in geoinformatics I am thinking about developing a useful plugin for QGIS. Using QGIS quiet frequently, I was not missing a feature so far, but maybe anyone of you can imagine a missing functionality!? I appreciate all kinds of suggestions or any idea that could help. Best regards, Florian 1. Smart labeling engine I think this is in the works to some degree... 2. A tool that creates as many new vector maps as the number of areas (=closed polygons) in a given vector map. For example, I have a map with with 10 digitised lakes. For some reason I would like a new map for each lake without going through a select+save as process for each lake. By vector map do you mean vector layer? If so, then fTools has this functionality already, using the 'split vector layer tool' under 'data management'. Carson Cool! Thanks for your information :-) ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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yes - you are probably right too bad. It would have been a cool resource for worldwide coverage. Jacolin Yves wrote: Andreas, Le Friday 30 January 2009 08:40:48 Andreas Neumann, vous avez écrit : I also thought it may be possible to use the Google maps data from within QGIS. One could probably use a hidden Webkit to make Google think it is a regular webbrowser that is requesting the tiles - and then merge and potentially reproject the GoogleMap tiles to use it as a regular background layer in QGIS. This is forbidden by the Google user licence. Y. -- -- Andreas Neumann Böschacherstrasse 6 CH-8624 Grüt (Gossau ZH) Switzerland Phone: ++41-44-2736668 Email: a.neum...@carto.net Web: http://www.carto.net/neumann/ SVG Examples: http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/ SVG.Open: http://www.svgopen.org/ ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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Andreas Neumann wrote: I also thought it may be possible to use the Google maps data from within QGIS. One could probably use a hidden Webkit to make Google think it is a regular webbrowser that is requesting the tiles you wouldn't need to do all that -- google tiles are a regular old web service a simple http GET will get them, you just need to know the URL scheme. Jacolin Yves wrote: This is forbidden by the Google user licence. I've always been confused by that. But anyway, you could do it with Open Street Map tiles. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/ORR(206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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This is forbidden by the Google user licence. Are you sure? Why should it be forbidden? If you use a web toolkit under the hood you don't do anything different from browsing google maps... Am I wrong? ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:12:39PM +0100, G. Allegri wrote: This is forbidden by the Google user licence. Are you sure? Why should it be forbidden? From The Google Maps/Google Earth APIs Terms of Service http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html Read specially 10.8: ... you must not (nor may you permit anyone else to): ... 10.1 access or use the Service or any Content through any technology or means other than those provided in the Service, or through other explicitly authorized means Google may designate; ... 10.3 pre-fetch, cache, or store any Content, except that you may store limited amounts of Content for the purpose of improving the performance of your Maps API Implementation if you do so temporarily, securely, and in a manner that does not permit use of the Content outside of the Service; ... 10.8 use the Static Maps API other than in an implementation in a web browser; -- Niccolo Rigacci Firenze - Italy ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
Christopher Barker ha scritto: I've always been confused by that. But anyway, you could do it with Open Street Map tiles. Better take the vector data from OSM (see my previous suggestion): you can do more with that. Or, even better, take both :) pc -- 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
Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
Florian Hillen ha scritto: Concerning my bachelor thesis in geoinformatics I am thinking about developing a useful plugin for QGIS. Using QGIS quiet frequently, I was not missing a feature so far, but maybe anyone of you can imagine a missing functionality!? I appreciate all kinds of suggestions or any idea that could help. Hi Florian. Of course there are thousands of interesting things to do. I put y preferred ones: - an OpenStreetMap reader and writer; there is a proof of concept by Martin, who I believe is also interested in carrying the work on: http://www.mapserver.sk/~wonder/qgis/plugins-sandbox.xml http://www.faunalia.it/qgis/ - an animal Home Range toolbox. We have a long-standing and slow-running project, called Animove, and it would be great to add different analyses to a toolbox. Have a look to: http://www.faunalia.it/animove/ and https://www.faunalia.it/dokuwiki/doku.php/public/animove_qgis_plugins if you are interested (I'm currently reorganizing the pages). All the best. pc -- 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
Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?
Le jeudi 29 janvier 2009, Florian Hillen a écrit : Dear mailing list. Concerning my bachelor thesis in geoinformatics I am thinking about developing a useful plugin for QGIS. Using QGIS quiet frequently, I was not missing a feature so far, but maybe anyone of you can imagine a missing functionality!? I appreciate all kinds of suggestions or any idea that could help. Best regards, Florian an open modeler ArcGis feature but as good as the idrisi one ;) Same thing in Sextante for gvSIG : http://www.sextantegis.com/en/screenshots.htm Y. -- Yves Jacolin - Donner la liberté aux individus ne suffit pas, il faut aussi leur donner du pouvoir, de la puissance d'agir. M Gauchet Give freedom to people is not enough, we also have to give them the power to use this freedom, to act. M Gauchet - http://yjacolin.gloobe.org http://softlibre.gloobe.org ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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Yves Jacolin (free) ha scritto: an open modeler ArcGis feature but as good as the idrisi one ;) Also a frontend to ogr and gdal functions would be very useful. pc -- 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
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yes - a nice gdal frontend for cropping/merging/resampling rasters would be cool. I also thought it may be possible to use the Google maps data from within QGIS. One could probably use a hidden Webkit to make Google think it is a regular webbrowser that is requesting the tiles - and then merge and potentially reproject the GoogleMap tiles to use it as a regular background layer in QGIS. Andreas Yves Jacolin (free) ha scritto: an open modeler ArcGis feature but as good as the idrisi one ;) Also a frontend to ogr and gdal functions would be very useful. pc -- 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 -- Andreas Neumann Böschacherstrasse 6, CH-8624 Grüt/Gossau, Switzerland Email: a.neum...@carto.net, Web: * http://www.carto.net/ (Carto and SVG resources) * http://www.carto.net/neumann/ (personal page) * http://www.svgopen.org/ (SVG Open Conference) * http://www.geofoto.ch/ (Georeferenced Photos of Switzerland) ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
