[Qgis-user] venue for the next hackfest

2010-05-24 Thread Milena Nowotarska
Hi all, thinking about the next hackfest we could organize it in Wroclaw, Poland, at the University. Wroclaw is an old, beautiful city easily accesible by train or plane. The venue we propose is Department of Climatology and Atmosphere Protection, University of Wroclaw. It is located in the most

[Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] venue for the next hackfest

2010-05-24 Thread Paolo Cavallini
On Mon, 24 May 2010 14:00:58 +0200, Milena Nowotarska do.mile...@gmail.com wrote: Let us know if You like the idea, please. +1 for me. -- http://faunalia.it/pc ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [Qgis-user] Error Loading GDAL Plugin

2010-05-24 Thread Paolo Cavallini
On Sun, 23 May 2010 13:30:36 +0200, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: I know the name is misleding: what you need is in fact python-gdal. Perhaps we can fix this. All the best. Done, have a look. Thanks to Giuseppe Sucameli for the update. All the best. -- http://faunalia.it/pc

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Metadata

2010-05-24 Thread Paolo Cavallini
On Sun, 23 May 2010 11:48:14 -0700, Tom mtnbiketr...@zzz.com wrote: How do I attach metadata to a vector layer? How does QGIS handle more information, does it look for an .xml file(shapefile specifications) of same name as vector layer? I know according to Qgis manual, one cannot edit

[Qgis-user] Re: QGIS WMS GetMap request wtih SLD?

2010-05-24 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Anders Söderman anders.soder...@... writes: Hi folks.    Are their any discussions or plans that QGIS will be able to send a WMS GetMap request, which also contains a link to an SLD? Hi, At the same time it would be good to add support for reading SLD_BODY from a local text file and

Re: [Qgis-user] Open Source Radio Planning Tool QRap (a QGis plug-in)

2010-05-24 Thread Anne Ghisla
On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 15:24 +0200, Magdaleen Snyman wrote: http://www.QRap.org.za Great! You can add it to http://gallery.osgeo.org/ regards Anne -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Anne_Ghisla signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[Qgis-user] conditional dissolve

2010-05-24 Thread A. Marcia BARBOSA
Hi, I'm using the shapefile of the GADM database of Global Administrative Areas (http://www.gadm.org), but the subdivisions of some countries (such as Spain, Slovenia and others) are too small. In order to get divisions that are more evenly sized among all countries, I need to dissolve

Re: [Qgis-user] conditional dissolve

2010-05-24 Thread Carson Farmer
What about Vector Geoprocessing tools Dissolve With this tool, you are able to process 'only selected features', which could be done ahead of time for the countries you wish to dissolve further. This is a Python tool, so for extremely large datasets it might be a bit slow... Carson On Mon, May

[Qgis-user] Using GRASS in QGIS

2010-05-24 Thread Kim Besson
Greetings I'm a GRASS user and I decided to test QGIS with GRASS-QGIS plugin. I have 2 questions: 1- How can I integrate a GRASS gfunction in QGIS? 2- Can I apply a GRASS function, already integrated in QGIS, to a dataset yhat is not in GRASS location/mapset? Thanks Kim

RE: [Qgis-user] conditional dissolve

2010-05-24 Thread Pedro Tarroso
Hi I would create a new field in the attribute table to be filled with the condition. I believe the simplest way is to use a dbf editor (like openoffice spreadsheet or old versions of excel) to create the condition field (same code for shapes to be dissolved). Then I would use the Dissolve

Re: [Qgis-user] conditional dissolve

2010-05-24 Thread Carson Farmer
Good point Pedro, my suggestion wouldn't output all the required features, only those that were initially selected... You can of course also edit the table in QGIS if you are using a relatively recent version, which supports adding fields and a field calculator. Carson On Mon, May 24, 2010 at

[Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] venue for the next hackfest

2010-05-24 Thread Alexander Bruy
On Mon, 24 May 2010 14:00:58 +0200 Milena Nowotarska do.mile...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, thinking about the next hackfest we could organize it in Wroclaw, Poland, at the University. Wroclaw is an old, beautiful city easily accesible by train or plane. ... Let us know if You like the idea,

[Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] venue for the next hackfest

2010-05-24 Thread Giovanni Manghi
Hi, during last hackfest has been also made a candidature for Portugal (Lisbon, served by low cost flight companies). We have already the interest of a local University to host the event. Let us know cheers -- Giovanni -- On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 14:00 +0200, Milena Nowotarska wrote: Hi all,

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Metadata

2010-05-24 Thread Alex Mandel
On 05/24/2010 05:14 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2010 11:48:14 -0700, Tom mtnbiketr...@zzz.com wrote: How do I attach metadata to a vector layer? How does QGIS handle more information, does it look for an .xml file(shapefile specifications) of same name as vector layer? I know

Re: [Qgis-user] Using GRASS in QGIS

2010-05-24 Thread Micha Silver
On 05/24/2010 05:47 PM, Kim Besson wrote: Greetings I'm a GRASS user and I decided to test QGIS with GRASS-QGIS plugin. I have 2 questions: 1- How can I integrate a GRASS gfunction in QGIS? What do you mean gfunction? The functions that are implemented in the GRASS Toolbox appear in an xml

[Qgis-user] Re: [GRASS-user] conditional dissolve

2010-05-24 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:30 PM, A. Marcia BARBOSA anamarciabarb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm using the shapefile of the GADM database of Global Administrative Areas (http://www.gadm.org), but the subdivisions of some countries (such as Spain, Slovenia and others) are too small. In order to

Re: Sv: Re: [Qgis-user] Creating polygon from points in csv file

2010-05-24 Thread Goyo
Hello Ulf, El sáb, 22-05-2010 a las 00:01 +0200, Ulf Almroth escribió: Hi, Using an attribute is agood idea. A lot of measuring devices generating ascii files with coordinates, e.g. various type of surveying equipment and coordinate measuring devices for industrial use produces file

[Qgis-user] Release plans for QGIS 1.5

2010-05-24 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi all The 1.5 Release Checklist is now online here [1] with the following proposed dates: 31 May Feature Freeze - only bug fixes into trunk from here on 21 June string freeze / call for translations 28 June Branch for release call for packaging 7 July - make release announcements (subject