Re: [Qgis-user] Re: map formats (Jel Coward)

2012-02-12 Thread Jel Coward
Thanks to Brent and Morgan for the input on the questions I sent.  The answers have helped educate me and I am sending them on to the Provincial Emergency Program here in British Columbia. .now I just need to hope I get some good files/maps to play with and

[Qgis-user] Re: map formats (Jel Coward)

2012-02-12 Thread Morgan Hite
Hi Jel, I use QGIS a great deal, and have some experience mapping for PEP/Air up here in the Northwest Region of BC. I would say you would give a resounding YES to the offer to use Provincial data sets. Layers such as the most current Forest Tenure Road Sections can give you a fairly up-to-date

FW: [Qgis-user] Google Earth

2012-02-12 Thread Alister Hood
Copying to the list... > From: Chuck Young [mailto:wylie1...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, 13 February 2012 5:52 a.m. > To: Alister Hood > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Google Earth > > I had that set to on the fly but the layers would load and show so far off > the range that when you go to extents the

Re: [Qgis-user] Map formats

2012-02-12 Thread Brent Fraser
Jel, I'm not a SAR guy so I can't answer the questions with any authority. It really depends on what your capabiltiies are (I expect that changes over time), and what your needs are.The long term answer is you should talk to your mapping end-users and see what they would like (anything

RE: [Qgis-user] Google Earth

2012-02-12 Thread Alister Hood
Are you sure you need to translate them? You can't just use on-the-fly reprojection? From: Chuck Young [mailto:wylie1...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 11 February 2012 5:25 p.m. To: Alister Hood Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Google Earth Alister: I got the Google map up and was able to translate the Tig