Re: [Qgis-user] Transparency of categorized layers

2011-11-15 Thread Giovanni Manghi
Hi, On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 15:22 -0800, Roger André wrote: Hi All, Is there a way to apply a uniform amount of transparency to every category in a categorized layer? In other words, to treat the categorized layers as a single group, and apply transparency to the group. I agree that the

Re: [Qgis-user] group symbology layers

2011-11-15 Thread Giovanni Manghi
Hi, In the layer properties, tab Style: Is it possible to use 'categorized' as a style, and then group certain categories? I tried right clicking the categories that I want to group (searching for the group option like in ArcGis), nothing there, and didn't find it in the manual either.

Re: [Qgis-user] PyQGIS can't load - QGIS 1.7 loading error obtained after upgrade linux/ubuntu from distribution 11.04 to 11.10

2011-11-15 Thread Yves Jacolin
Bonjour Florent, check that all package have been uptaded correctly, specially the one named python-qgis. Check also that all previous package have been removed. You can also try ldconfig command on root to update path db to your lib. Y. Le samedi 12 novembre 2011 19:22:58, Florent Beck a

Re: [Qgis-user] group symbology layers

2011-11-15 Thread Andreas Neumann
Yes - a grouping feature is missing. But it can be emulated in the new symbology with the rule-based renderer by using a rule with a IN('cat1','cat2',...) operator. Andreas On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:10:37 +, Giovanni Manghi wrote: Hi, In the layer properties, tab Style: Is it possible to

Re: [Qgis-user] suscription Pierre Bertieaux

2011-11-15 Thread Yves Jacolin
Hi, You can edit your parameter (name, option and email) with the user interface of mailman. Don't need to subscribe and unsubscribe! Y. Le mardi 15 novembre 2011 08:47:21, Werner Macho a écrit : Hi Pierre, I assume you are talking about the Qgis-user mailing list .. So all in all you

Re: [Qgis-user] Snap points to nearest line

2011-11-15 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Cameron, Snapping works fine, but automatically getting the attributes from an object it snaps to is not possible. Andreas On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:59:58 -0800 (PST), Cameron Munro wrote: Hi, I have two layers - points and lines. I'd like to snap the points to the nearest line and take

Re: [Qgis-user] Snap points to nearest line

2011-11-15 Thread Pedro Venâncio
Hi, To automatically get the attributes from an object, in my view, only using PostgreSQL/PostGIS with triggers. Best regards, Pedro Venâncio - Original Message - From: Andreas Neumann Hi Cameron, Snapping works fine, but automatically getting the attributes from an object it

Re: [Qgis-user] Snap points to nearest line

2011-11-15 Thread Andreas Neumann
To automatically get the attributes from an object, in my view, only using PostgreSQL/PostGIS with triggers. yes - this would work, but the drawback is that the triggers are only triggered on saving the data and not when the snapping happens ... Saving in QGIS only happens manually after a

Re: [Qgis-user] Snap points to nearest line

2011-11-15 Thread Nicklas Avén
Hallo If you have your data stored in PostGIS you can do it directly in the database. To get a new table with the snapped points and the line attribudes you can run: CREATE TABLE line_attribute_point AS SELECT distinct on (linetable.id) linetable.*, ST_ClosestPoint(linetable.geom,

Re: [Qgis-user] education resources

2011-11-15 Thread Anne Ghisla
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:15:33 +1100 Noli Sicad nsi...@gmail.com wrote: This is the latest material for QGIS Workshop’s documentation (FOSS4G -Denver) http://sourcepole.com/foss4g/index.html I hope this will help start you and probably you can improve by incorporating your own data. Hello

[Qgis-user] Where to download maps from?

2011-11-15 Thread Jim Brown
Hi all, I'm a newbie so this question has probably been asked before, sorry about that... When I downloaded Qgis I got the Alaska map. I'd like to do my learning on something closer to home which is Johannesburg, South Africa. Or failing that, the Eastern Cape as shown in some of the pix in Tim

[Qgis-user] Re: Snap points to nearest line

2011-11-15 Thread magerlin
Cameron Munro wrote: Hi, I have two layers - points and lines. I'd like to snap the points to the nearest line and take the attributes of that line. Is this possible within QGIS? Thanks, Cameron. Hi Cameron Two suggestions, but not an excact solution: You can use the mmqgis

Re: [Qgis-user] Where to download maps from?

2011-11-15 Thread Jean-Claude Repetto
Le 15/11/2011 11:50, Jim Brown a écrit : Hi all, I'm a newbie so this question has probably been asked before, sorry about that... When I downloaded Qgis I got the Alaska map. I'd like to do my learning on something closer to home which is Johannesburg, South Africa. Or failing that, the

Re: [Qgis-user] Where to download maps from?

2011-11-15 Thread Noli Sicad
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/natural-earth-version-1-3-release-notes/ Noli On 11/15/11, Jim Brown jim.brow...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm a newbie so this question has probably been asked before, sorry about that... When I downloaded Qgis I got the Alaska map. I'd like to do my

Re: [Qgis-user] Where to download maps from?

2011-11-15 Thread adams
Dear Jim, probably the OSM files for South Africa are a good point to start. Get them here: http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/africa/south_africa_and_lesotho.shp.zip Regards, Till On 15.11.2011 11:50, Jim Brown wrote: Hi all, I'm a newbie so this question has probably been asked before, sorry

[Qgis-user] Voronoi polygon errors

2011-11-15 Thread magerlin
Two QGis plugins can create Voronoi Polygons but both seems the have errors? Using the fTools plugin and using transparency in the symbology shows this: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/file/n6995908/fTools_Voronoi.png Doing the same using MMQgis Voronoi show this:

[Qgis-user] New Symbology: reversed nomenclature?

2011-11-15 Thread Agustin Lobo
In the New Symbology, is not what is named Categorized actually Graduated and what is called Graduated actually Categorized? Under Graduated the user must classify into n classes, which is making n categories, while under what is named Categorized the user gets a continuous color bar. Agus

Re: [Qgis-user] Problems with Manage R plugin

2011-11-15 Thread Anne Ghisla
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:28:45 -0200 José Carlos Guerrero Antúnez jcgantu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have the following error with the Manage R plugin. Traceback (most recent call last): File /Users/joseca/.qgis//python/plugins/manageR/plugin.py, line 58, in run from manageR import

Re: [Qgis-user] Voronoi polygon errors

2011-11-15 Thread Carson Farmer
Hi Morten, Using the fTools plugin and using transparency in the symbology shows this: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/file/n6995908/fTools_Voronoi.png Doing the same using MMQgis Voronoi show this: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/file/n6995908/Voronoi.png fTools add some

RE: [Qgis-user] Simplify?

2011-11-15 Thread Chris Green
Hi Roger Thanks for your comments. Much appreciated! Chris From: Roger André [mailto:ran...@gmail.com] Sent: 14 November 2011 21:50 To: Chris Green Cc: t...@wildintellect.com; qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Simplify? GRASS has some very good line

[Qgis-user] is it possible to reverse geocode a file of points using qgis and openstreetmap?

2011-11-15 Thread M . E . Dodd
I see there are various openstreetmap services such as nominatum/mapquest but don't really understand how these might interact with qgis or if it would be a separate operation outside of qgis. Would be much nicer inside qgis so you could easily set up table to get the different bits of reverse

Re: [Qgis-user] education resources

2011-11-15 Thread Advrk Aplmrkt
On 15 November 2011 05:52, Anne Ghisla a.ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:15:33 +1100 Noli Sicad nsi...@gmail.com wrote: This is the latest material for QGIS Workshop’s documentation (FOSS4G -Denver) http://sourcepole.com/foss4g/index.html I hope this will help start you and

[Qgis-user] Error when placing a scale bar in Composer QGIS 1.6.0

2011-11-15 Thread António Rocha
Hi In some cases, when I try to add a scale bar to the Composer I get a box with: 0 | If I try to change the units I get the following in my command-window: Warning: Object::disconnected: Unexpected null parameter Any tips on this? Thanks ___

[Qgis-user] volume calculations in qgis

2011-11-15 Thread Bernhard Draeyer
I have 2 high resolution raster DEM's before and after a recent flood event. The aim would be to get for different areas a) erosion/negative volumes b) accumulation/positive volumes and net volume. First of all, i subtracted the actual surface from the 'before'-surface to get a difference

[Qgis-user] Error when launching QGIS

2011-11-15 Thread António Rocha
Greetings When I launch QGIS I get the following error: Loaded : __error__ (package: GdalTools) But I have GDAL in my system (1.8.0). And a Panel with a Python error that starts with: Couldn't load plugin GdalTools due an error whern calling its classFactory() method Any tip on this? Thanks

[Qgis-user] ManageR under Windows.

2011-11-15 Thread Guillaume Larocque
Hi, I am trying to run ManageR under Windows 7. I have installed QGIS with the Standalone installer and I also tried the OSGeo4W installer. I get the error message found below. I have tried to set the R_HOME environmental variable in Windows to different values (/bin,/i386,/x64, etc) and I always

Re: [Qgis-user] ManageR under Windows.

2011-11-15 Thread Giovanni Manghi
Hi, you have to add the path of the /bin folder in your R installation in the path environment variable of Windows. Due to the afct that the rpy2 library (the bridge between python and R) for Windows is not updated you must use R = 2.11 In the QGIS wiki you can find detailed instructions. Cheers

Re: [Qgis-user] Error when launching QGIS

2011-11-15 Thread Giovanni Manghi
Olá Antonio, On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 18:01 +, António Rocha wrote: Greetings When I launch QGIS I get the following error: Loaded : __error__ (package: GdalTools) But I have GDAL in my system (1.8.0). And a Panel with a Python error that starts with: Couldn't load plugin GdalTools due an

Re: [Qgis-user] Error when placing a scale bar in Composer QGIS 1.6.0

2011-11-15 Thread Giovanni Manghi
Olá, On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 17:56 +, António Rocha wrote: Hi In some cases, when I try to add a scale bar to the Composer I get a box with: 0 | seems normal to me, you'll have to set the segment size and maps unit per bar unit in the scalebar properties (item tab in the composer).

Re: [Qgis-user] Error when placing a scale bar in Composer QGIS 1.6.0

2011-11-15 Thread António Rocha
Hi I have done that and it does not change. This is related with a very small raster. 2011/11/15 Giovanni Manghi giovanni.man...@gmail.com Olá, On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 17:56 +, António Rocha wrote: Hi In some cases, when I try to add a scale bar to the Composer I get a box with:

Re: [Qgis-user] Error when placing a scale bar in Composer QGIS 1.6.0

2011-11-15 Thread Giovanni Manghi
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 18:20 +, António Rocha wrote: Hi I have done that and it does not change. This is related with a very small raster. is your project in a projected or geographic CRS? cheers -- Giovanni -- ___ Qgis-user mailing list

Re: [Qgis-user] Error when launching QGIS

2011-11-15 Thread António Rocha
Sorry CentOS QGIS1.6.0 2011/11/15 Giovanni Manghi giovanni.man...@gmail.com Olá Antonio, On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 18:01 +, António Rocha wrote: Greetings When I launch QGIS I get the following error: Loaded : __error__ (package: GdalTools) But I have GDAL in my system (1.8.0). And

Re: [Qgis-user] Transparency of categorized layers

2011-11-15 Thread Roger André
Hi Giovanni, I'll have to try that out in the Dev version, but in 1.7.1 it is not possible to select multiple categorized classes, nor is there any transparency option available via right-click (at least none that I can find). Thanks, Roger -- On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Giovanni Manghi

Re: [Qgis-user] Transparency of categorized layers

2011-11-15 Thread Giovanni Manghi
I'll have to try that out in the Dev version, but in 1.7.1 it is not possible to select multiple categorized classes, right. a workaround is to use the old symbology, you have the button in the style tab of the vector properties. Cheers -- Giovanni --

Re: [Qgis-user] Error when launching QGIS

2011-11-15 Thread Giuseppe Sucameli
Hi António, what's the GdalTools plugin installed version? Can you install the latest GdalTools version from the plugins installer (you have to enable experimental plugins) and then try again? Regards. 2011/11/15 António Rocha toyze.ro...@gmail.com: Sorry CentOS QGIS1.6.0 2011/11/15

Re: [Qgis-user] volume calculations in qgis

2011-11-15 Thread Saber Razmjooei
I had this problem in the past. Unfortunately there are not many plugins for raster analysis in QGIS and I usually I end up doing in in GRASS. The command in GRASS for inspection your raster layers, using polygon vectors: http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/html_grass64/v.what.rast.html You need to run

Re: [Qgis-user] Where to download maps from?

2011-11-15 Thread Carlos Cerdán
Hi Jim Diva GIS has also free vector and raster data for all world at http://www.diva-gis.org/Data Regards from Perú Carlos Cerdán El 15/11/11 05:50, Jim Brown escribió: Hi all, I'm a newbie so this question has probably been asked before, sorry about that... When I downloaded Qgis I got

[Qgis-user] Problems

2011-11-15 Thread Guillaume Larocque
Hi again, this is definitely not my day of luck with QGIS. I have been working in QGIS doing various things and I started getting the message below with almost everything I do (add a new layer, various raster operations, ...), which crashes the function. Any help would be appreciated. I am

Re: [Qgis-user] Transparency of categorized layers

2011-11-15 Thread David J. Bakeman
Giovanni Manghi wrote: I'll have to try that out in the Dev version, but in 1.7.1 it is not possible to select multiple categorized classes, right. a workaround is to use the old symbology, you have the button in the style tab of the vector properties. Or as Brad suggested set

Re: [Qgis-user] graduated symbols for point layers

2011-11-15 Thread Mars Sjoden
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Caroline Rendon caroline.t.ren...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sake, This doesn't work for me. The symbols still appear in graduated colors, all the same size - and the size doesn't seem to change when I change the number, although it does between millimeters and map

Re: [Qgis-user] Proposed attribute table UI redesign

2011-11-15 Thread Mars Sjoden
I like: 1. Reduce Margins 2. Split buttons into groups 3. Reduce Min row height (could this be adjustable within a setting of QGIS?) Disklike: look for should at least be Search or Search for Agree or Suggestion?: a simple magnifying glass search icon for a Search button OR - Simply

Re: [Qgis-user] volume calculations in qgis

2011-11-15 Thread Mars Sjoden
+1 for GRASS Hartanto Sanjaya has a nice slide for calculating a basic volume for a lake using GRASS. May help if you are unfamiliar with the tools available in GRASS. http://hartanto.wordpress.com/2007/06/16/analisis-3-dimensi-untuk-volume-air-danau/ mars On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:01 AM,