Re: [Qgis-user] getting started for a complete GIS beginner
Thank you Agus and Micha and Don for your explanations and patience. I understand the situation much better now. Agus is correct, of course, that one needs to learn the jargon of any field before progressing in it. But what's also important to note is that people new to a software project like QGIS might be users migrating from some other software -- who already know it -- and they might be users coming to it afresh -- who have to learn it someplace, but may be in process. I suspect that a product like QGIS which is presented as a simple GIS solution, and which has a very uncluttered and unthreatening (and therefore appealing) UI, will get more than its share of dumb users like me, for better or worse. Again, many thanks for the help, -tom -- tomfool at as220 dot org http://sgouros.com http://whatcheer.net ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
[Qgis-user] help with digitization in grass plugin
hi all, I am using qgis 0.9.0 on windows. I have created the location and mapset needed to work in grass. I wish to create a vector layer. I am using the create new grass vector button and I have created a table alright. But when I create a feature I get a table with the message WARNING: ATTRIBUTES MISSING . There is a update button at the bottom if I click it I get the following error :- DBMI-DBF driver error: SQL parser error: syntax error, unexpected $undefined, expecting EQUAL processing ':' in statement: update test set WARNING: ATTRIBUTES MISSING = 'WARNING: ATTRIBUTES MISSING' where cat = 5 Error in db_execute_immediate() What is the problem ? I can see the feature and it's attribute table but the colns are empty. The start editing button is grayed out plz help me out nishith - Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage.___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] 0.9.1 Release plans
Hi Tim (I expect that my message is trapped from your list manager) On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:56:58PM +0100, Tim Sutton wrote: ... Saturday 1 December - Wed December 5 * Packagers make test packages for all platforms and commit any packaging related changes to SVN. Please note the GRASS folks have requested we use: http://grass.itc.it/grass63/source/grass-6.3.0RC2.tar.gz For platforms where we are bundling grass together with QGIS (Win and Mac really). Markus to advise if there is any change in the above advisory. That's very good. I expect that we get even RC3 out by then with further Windows fixes. Markus ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
[Qgis-user] Distorted Map Display
Greetings all, I've seen this question asked a few times, but have never come across a workable solution. Whenever I open any map data from my area (Lethbridge, Alberta) in qgis (or grass) the maps are distorted (ie. east-west roads look longer than they should, north-south roads look shorter, or both). See this example: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2375/2069180643_c7f175a11e.jpg?v=0 I've taken a screen dump of the qgis display and compared it to a mapedit display. These are both of the same shape file at the same projection (NAD83). The mapedit display looks correct...east-west (township) roads are two miles apart, north-south (range) roads are one mile apart (the pink square is one square mile). Even though the display looks wrong in qgis, the data is actually correct. I used the measure tool and came up with 1,640.30 degrees (which I'm guessing is meters) for the length of segment a, and 3,260.79 degrees for segment b. Segment b is (almost) twice the length of a, even though it does not look like it in the display. Just for interest...the QGIS User Map on the QGIS homepage uffers from this same distortion. Alaska looks quite a bit wider than it really is. So, is there any way to fix this or am I just going to have to get used to seeing (and printing) distorted maps from qgis? I've tried various steps to re-project the maps but the display does not change. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. -- Peter Pankonin, digitalcrucible There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] getting started for a complete GIS beginner
Hi Maning I look through some of your tutorials - really good work! Regards Tim 2007/11/27, Maning Sambale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We are using QGIS and GRASS for our Basic GIS course: http://epmgis.wikispaces.com/ You might find some things useful there. I am also trying to make some screencasts. cheers, maning On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 14:03 -0200, Tim Sutton wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tim Sutton QGIS Project Steering Committee Member - Release Manager Visit http://qgis.org for a great open source GIS openModeller Desktop Developer Visit http://openModeller.sf.net for a great open source ecological niche modelling tool Home Page: http://tim.linfiniti.com Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
Re: [Qgis-user] getting started for a complete GIS beginner
Thanks! Slowly were building up the resources (exercises, notes, projects, references). We try to center our class towards free data, use of FOSS, collaborative content management, and Philippine geospatial applications. The course is more of vry basic understanding of GIS. There's really one major obstacle, up to know were borrowing time to the school's computer lab. With no dedicated pc's for GIS. Mostly we do exercises via a live-cd [http://epmgis.wikispaces.com/live-cd]. Feel free to use and edit the pages. maning On 11/27/07, Agustin Lobo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good job, excellent course organization! I'll try to do a similar wiki with my students Agus Maning Sambale escribió: We are using QGIS and GRASS for our Basic GIS course: http://epmgis.wikispaces.com/ You might find some things useful there. I am also trying to make some screencasts. cheers, maning On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 14:03 -0200, Tim Sutton wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user -- Dr. Agustin Lobo Institut de Ciencies de la Terra Jaume Almera (CSIC) LLuis Sole Sabaris s/n 08028 Barcelona Spain Tel. 34 934095410 Fax. 34 934110012 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ija.csic.es/gt/obster -- |-|--| | __.-._ |Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great. -Yoda | | '-._7' |Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden| | /'.-c |Linux registered user #402901, http://counter.li.org/ | | | /T |http://esambale.wikispaces.com| | _)_/LI |http://www.geocities.com/esambale/philbiodivmap/philbirds.html | |-|--| ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
