[Qgis-user] to line or not to line

2011-10-29 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Hi This question is not as much QGIS specific but more about generic GIS concepts. In all of the tutorials I have watched so far rivers is represented as lines. This makes sense and if you were to do later analysis I would imagine a line would make it easier to get information like the length of

Re: [Qgis-user] to line or not to line

2011-10-29 Thread Anita Graser
Hi Gerhardus, The common approach I saw most of the time is to have a polygon layer that traces the form of the river banks and a line layer that contains the river center line and can be used to calculate distances easily. Best wishes, Anita On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Gerhardus

Re: [Qgis-user] to line or not to line

2011-10-29 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Hi Many thanks for all the answers! I am doing a line and a polygon for my map. Best Regards On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Anita Graser anitagra...@gmx.at wrote: Hi Gerhardus, The common approach I saw most of the time is to have a polygon layer that traces the form of the river banks

Re: [Qgis-user] PROFILEFROMLINE

2011-10-29 Thread Giovanni Manghi
I don't see this error, the plugin just needs python-shapely to install/work. Cheers -- Giovanni -- On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 09:41 -0700, Ing. Juan M. Bernales wrote: I all,maybe someone can help on profilefromline plugin, when i install from plugin installer, it give me “the plugin is broken,

[Qgis-user] OS X Lion - Experiences?

2011-10-29 Thread Mars Sjoden
Hi, Wondering what peoples experiences are using OS X Lion and QGIS (your version here) is, with respect to stability and issues if any at all. I have not had much luck on leopard and snow leopard, and am beginning to think there is some sort of hard ware issue with the particular iMacs and

Re: [Qgis-user] OS X Lion - Experiences?

2011-10-29 Thread William Kyngesburye
On Oct 29, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Mars Sjoden wrote: Hi, Wondering what peoples experiences are using OS X Lion and QGIS (your version here) is, with respect to stability and issues if any at all. I have not had much luck on leopard and snow leopard, and am beginning to think there is some

Re: [Qgis-user] OS X Lion - Experiences?

2011-10-29 Thread Mars Sjoden
Yah, I am wondering if there is a certain hardware configuration on my machines that is not agreeing with Qt cocoa. Apple hardware tested: 3x iMac 3.06ghz core2duo, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 1x iMac 2.00ghz core2dou, ATI radeon hd2400 1x macbookpro 2ghz, core dou, ati radeon??? recent testing

Re: [Qgis-user] OS X Lion - Experiences?

2011-10-29 Thread Mars
Yes, I have sent quite a few crash reports, but would like to build QGIS with debugging to hopefully get more useful info for dev.'s or others better at understanding how I am stuffing things up. I am hopeful that I may have pin-pointed more consistently QGIS crashing. They Mac model I was