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

2009-01-30 Thread Jacolin Yves
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

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

2009-01-30 Thread Jacolin Yves
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

[Qgis-user] Re: Symbology RFC

2009-01-30 Thread Martin Dobias
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Martin Dobias wonder...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/SymbologyRfc Voting about the RFC starts now and will end on 4 Feb. QGIS community members have the possibility to comment and vote on an RFC. Community members give comments and votes

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

2009-01-30 Thread Lionel Roubeyrie
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

[Qgis-user] FOSSGIS Höck in Solothurn

2009-01-30 Thread Düster Horst
Please excuse cross-posting and german language, but this posting is addressed to the german speaking FOSSGIS community. -- 2. FOSSGIS Höck in Solothurn - Nachlese. Mit ca. 15 Teilnehmern aus Basel, Bern, Zürich, Uster, Thun, Burgdorf, Lausanne und Solothurn hat

[Qgis-user] Feature inquiry: Multiple display windows?

2009-01-30 Thread Sjur Kolberg
Hello, Qgis community: I am not yet a QGIS user, but I'd like to know if QGIS supports several map display windows, possibly cooperating. One of the things I do most in my current GIS (which I am only partly satisfied with) is to compare two rasters. It would be nice to plot them in separate

Re: [Qgis-user] Lat-long

2009-01-30 Thread Carson Farmer
Arvind Jha wrote: 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, The zoom to point python plugin should do this, available from the main python repository... Carson

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

2009-01-30 Thread Agustin Lobo
Florian, My personal wishlist is in http://sites.google.com/site/eospansite/myqgiswishlist?pli=1 Some are very simple(i.e., clipping raster layers), others are very challenging (ie. linking geographic and statistical views for Spatial Exploratory Data Analysis). Also, we do miss most raster

Re: [Qgis-user] Feature inquiry: Multiple display windows?

2009-01-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 11:24 +0100, Sjur Kolberg wrote: Hello, Qgis community: I am not yet a QGIS user, but I'd like to know if QGIS supports several map display windows, possibly cooperating. One of the things I do most in my current GIS (which I am only partly satisfied with) is

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

2009-01-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
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

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

2009-01-30 Thread Carson Farmer
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

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

2009-01-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
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

[Qgis-user] print composer scalebar help?

2009-01-30 Thread Ross M Karchner
The print composer has me kind of stumped... What I'd like is a simple scale bar to indicate how long a mile (or perhaps 2,5, or 10 miles) is on my map. The project units are in feet (but I'm not sure that's relevant in the composer?). When I try entering the exact input that's used in the

Re: [Qgis-user] print composer scalebar help?

2009-01-30 Thread Carson Farmer
Hi Ross, The print composer has me kind of stumped... What I'd like is a simple scale bar to indicate how long a mile (or perhaps 2,5, or 10 miles) is on my map. The project units are in feet (but I'm not sure that's relevant in the composer?). No this doesn't matter to much to the composer,

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

2009-01-30 Thread Andreas Neumann
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

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

2009-01-30 Thread Christopher Barker
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

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

2009-01-30 Thread G. Allegri
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

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

2009-01-30 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
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

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

2009-01-30 Thread Paolo Cavallini
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: *