[Qgis-user] Lat-long

2009-01-29 Thread Arvind Jha
Could someone let me know how to arrive at lat long of a point on a satellite imagery  uploaded on  q-gis? Its urgent Dr.Arvind kumar Jha, ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-use

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-29 Thread Andreas Neumann
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

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-29 Thread Paolo Cavallini
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-u

Re: [Qgis-user] New GIS User, What to use (QGIS, GVSIQ or UDIG)?

2009-01-29 Thread John Callahan
I'd have to second Carson's comments. I come from 10 years experience using ESRI products. When I starting getting into open source GIS just over a year ago, QGIS was much easier for me than gvSIG or UDig. Now, I prefer it over ArcMap when dealing with shapefiles. - John *

Re: [Qgis-user] QgsVectorFileWriter

2009-01-29 Thread Borys Jurgiel
> > > In this way, it would be better to save in a temporary shapefile first, > > > and if the process finishes successfully, remove the destination > > > shapefile and copy the temporary shp to the new location. > > > > > hmm, I don't know about this... > > Firstly, it's only useful to do this

Re: [Qgis-user] New GIS User, What to use (QGIS, GVSIQ or UDIG)?

2009-01-29 Thread Carson Farmer
Hi boesiii, A client of mine needs softwate to edit shapefiles and was wondering what's the easiest and best to use (QGIS, GVSIG, or UDIG)? Basically they will be adding points (fire hydrants) and lines (waterlines) and entering attribute data. I have found that QGIS is by far the best deskto

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-29 Thread Giovanni Manghi
> 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

[Qgis-user] jpg raster file

2009-01-29 Thread Einar Guðsteinsson
Hi I was installing version 1.0.0 (Windows version)just now. I am trying to add few raster layers that are jpg files. Part of the file is displayed but rest just gray out. This did work in preview 2. Any ideas? best regards Einar___ Qgis-user mailing

[Qgis-user] New GIS User, What to use (QGIS, GVSIQ or UDIG)?

2009-01-29 Thread boesiii
A client of mine needs softwate to edit shapefiles and was wondering what's the easiest and best to use (QGIS, GVSIG, or UDIG)? Basically they will be adding points (fire hydrants) and lines (waterlines) and entering attribute data. They are on a tight budget, so anything by ESRI is out of the q

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-29 Thread Yves Jacolin (free)
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 f

Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] Slashgeo poll on qgis

2009-01-29 Thread John C. Tull
On Jan 29, 2009, at 1:45 AM, Nikos Alexandris wrote: On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 10:37 +0100, Jacolin Yves wrote: Le Thursday 29 January 2009 10:31:54 Nikos Alexandris, vous avez écrit : On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 17:51 -0800, John C. Tull wrote: I would encourage everyone to participate in the poll up

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Website: Layout Issue

2009-01-29 Thread Otto Dassau
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:53:37 + Giovanni Manghi wrote: > > > @Tim and Gary. The images were linked from the old qgis server and I don't > > have access. Can you send me the images so I can add them to the new server > > and? > > > > images/stories/operating_systems/os_linux.png > > images/st

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Website: Layout Issue

2009-01-29 Thread Giovanni Manghi
> @Tim and Gary. The images were linked from the old qgis server and I don't > have > access. Can you send me the images so I can add them to the new server and? > > images/stories/operating_systems/os_linux.png > images/stories/operating_systems/os_mac.png > images/stories/operating_systems/os_

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-29 Thread Paolo Cavallini
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 sugg

[Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-29 Thread Florian Hillen
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 id

[Qgis-user] QgsCoordinateReferenceSystem in

2009-01-29 Thread Radosław Pasiok
Hello list! I am happy OSGeo4W user with QGIS 1.0.0-5. I got strange things using QgsCoordinateReferenceSystem in a custom python script. For example, from the following script: from qgis.core import * QgsApplication.setPrefixPath("C:\OSGeo4W\apps",True) QgsApplication.initQgis() cs = QgsCoordi

Re: [Qgis-user] Slashgeo poll on qgis

2009-01-29 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 10:37 +0100, Jacolin Yves wrote: > Le Thursday 29 January 2009 10:31:54 Nikos Alexandris, vous avez écrit : > > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 17:51 -0800, John C. Tull wrote: > > > I would encourage everyone to participate in the poll up on slashgeo: > > > http://slashgeo.org > > > >

Re: [Qgis-user] Slashgeo poll on qgis

2009-01-29 Thread Jacolin Yves
Le Thursday 29 January 2009 10:31:54 Nikos Alexandris, vous avez écrit : > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 17:51 -0800, John C. Tull wrote: > > I would encourage everyone to participate in the poll up on slashgeo: > > http://slashgeo.org > > > > It asks what "Quantum GIS 1.0 for you mean..." [sic] with sever

Re: [Qgis-user] Slashgeo poll on qgis

2009-01-29 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 17:51 -0800, John C. Tull wrote: > I would encourage everyone to participate in the poll up on slashgeo: > http://slashgeo.org > > It asks what "Quantum GIS 1.0 for you mean..." [sic] with several > options. > > Cheers, > John John, which is the link to the question(s)? S