Re: [Qgis-user] Toporama in QGIS in UTM

2011-09-02 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, Would you be able to write-up a quick stepBYstep instructions on how to get the toporamaWMS layer setup? Thanks, Sam On 9/1/11, John Abraham jabra...@ucalgary.ca wrote: Works with QGIS 1.7.0 on OSX. Thanks. The Canadian TOPO WMS is great because it's seamless and you can select/order the

Re: [Qgis-user] Toporama in QGIS in UTM

2011-09-02 Thread John Abraham
On 2011-09-02, at 12:18 AM, Sam Vekemans wrote: Hi, Would you be able to write-up a quick stepBYstep instructions on how to get the toporamaWMS layer setup? Thanks, Sam Layer-Add WMS Layer New Name = Toporama, URL = http://wms.ess-ws.nrcan.gc.ca/wms/toporama_en , OK Connect Select the top

[Qgis-user] MrSid

2011-09-02 Thread Lee
I seem to have finally incorporated MrSID into gdal: gdalinfo --formats | grep MrSID MrSID (ro): Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID) JP2MrSID (ro): MrSID JPEG2000 However, if I try to add a .sid file into qgis I still get an unsupported raster format error. Any thoughts on how

Re: [Qgis-user] MrSid

2011-09-02 Thread Giovanni Manghi
on qhat platform? Linux/Ubuntu? are you using both the Ubuntugis and nightly builds repositories? cheers -- Giovanni -- On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 10:40 -0400, Lee wrote: I seem to have finally incorporated MrSID into gdal: gdalinfo --formats | grep MrSID MrSID (ro): Multi-resolution

Re: [Qgis-user] MrSid

2011-09-02 Thread Lee
That very well might be my case. Do you have a recommendation to fix it? I installed qgis through the software manager, and not from source. So I'm automatically imagining it was the trunk install. Although a lot of these issues are somewhat over my head. -- all the best, Lee On Fri, Sep 2,

Re: [Qgis-user] Poor performance on Toshiba Laptop

2011-09-02 Thread Alex Mandel
On 09/02/2011 04:34 PM, acarvaja...@fcien.edu.uy wrote: Dear all, I've just started using QGis (Wroclaw). I'm working on a 120 mb .shp file, in my Toshiba L645 laptop. I agree it's not the greatest machine, but it is what i can afford (as of now, just a grad-student). This model includes

Re: [Qgis-user] Poor performance on Toshiba Laptop

2011-09-02 Thread acarvajales
First of all, thanks for such a complete and quick response, Alex. Secondly, the repositories are those suggested at qgis.org: deb http://qgis.org/debian natty main deb-src http://qgis.org/debian natty main Whether or not the nature of the shape i'm trying to work with is what undermines

Re: [Qgis-user] Toporama in QGIS in UTM

2011-09-02 Thread John Abraham
On 9/1/11, John Abraham jabra...@ucalgary.ca wrote: The Canadian TOPO WMS is great because it's seamless and you can select/order the layers, but the content is not as good as the original geotiffs which can be downloaded ftp://ftp2.cits.nrcan.gc.ca/pub/toporama/ I compared the

Re: [Qgis-user] Poor performance on Toshiba Laptop

2011-09-02 Thread Mick
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:23:33 -0300 acarvaja...@fcien.edu.uy wrote: First of all, thanks for such a complete and quick response, Alex. Secondly, the repositories are those suggested at qgis.org: deb http://qgis.org/debian natty main deb-src http://qgis.org/debian natty main Whether