[Qgis-user] Re: QGIS + Inkscape

2012-03-19 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Brylie Oxley brylie@... writes: Hello, My name is Brylie Oxley. I am a student at Sierra College in Nevada City, CA. I would like to apply for the GSoC program. I have been studying GIS at Sierra College, where the courses focus on proprietary tools. For libre GIS tools to be viable

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: QGIS + Inkscape

2012-03-19 Thread G. Allegri
I agree with Jukka. Working to a lower level of binding (through GDAL/OGR) would let other foss software leavarage the improvements. I don't know Inkscape very much, but I've tried to import the latter example from Jukka (the multilayer PDF) and it keeps the layers correctly. Working on the GDAL

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: QGIS + Inkscape

2012-03-19 Thread Ari Jolma
On 03/19/2012 10:04 AM, G. Allegri wrote: I agree with Jukka. Working to a lower level of binding (through GDAL/OGR) would let other foss software leavarage the improvements. I don't know Inkscape very much, but I've tried to import the latter example from Jukka (the multilayer PDF) and it

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: QGIS + Inkscape

2012-03-19 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/03/12 09:04, G. Allegri wrote: I agree with Jukka. Working to a lower level of binding (through GDAL/OGR) would let other foss software leavarage the improvements. I don't know Inkscape very much, but I've tried to import the latter

[Qgis-user] Relative paths

2012-03-19 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Hi My external harddrive broke on which I kept my QGIS files. This meant that in the new location all my data sources are broken, as in they point to a specific location rather than relative to the main project file. Is there a way to make paths relative or is this a design intention? Regards --

Re: [Qgis-user] Relative paths

2012-03-19 Thread Giovanni Manghi
Is there a way to make paths relative or is this a design intention? there is an option in the project properties: use relative or absolute paths. cheers -- Giovanni -- ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org

Re: [Qgis-user] Relative paths

2012-03-19 Thread Andreas Neumann
Sure: go to Settings -- Project properties -- General tab -- Save paths -- relative Andreas On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:22:00 +, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote: Hi  My external harddrive broke on which I kept my QGIS files. This meant that in the new location all my data sources are broken, as in

Re: [Qgis-user] Relative paths

2012-03-19 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Hi Awesome, thanks for the quick replies. I can't remember setting it... would relative potentially be a better default setting? Regards On 19 March 2012 10:26, Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net wrote: Sure: go to Settings -- Project properties -- General tab -- Save paths -- relative

Re: [Qgis-user] Relative paths

2012-03-19 Thread Andreas Neumann
Settings -- Options -- Rendering tab -- SVG paths Andreas On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:36:21 +, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote: HiOne more thing. My custom symbols have also all disappeared and I were not prompted by QGIS to set this path. I vaguely remember setting a path for them but can't

Re: [Qgis-user] Relative paths

2012-03-19 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Thanks! There seems to be a small bug though because I had to reassign all the symbols that I had set previously. To make sure I restarted QGIS but it did not had the desired effect. Regards On 19 March 2012 10:42, Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net wrote: Settings -- Options -- Rendering tab

[Qgis-user] banco de dados..

2012-03-19 Thread Rodrigo Moreira Maia
Caros amigos, gostaria de saber como se cria um banco de dados na tabela de atributos dos arquivos shape .shp.. para por exemplo.. numa rodovia, posso colocar pavimentada ? sim ou não apenas, e o campo não é livre para escrever obrigado... Dear friends, I wonder how you create a database in

Re: [Qgis-user] banco de dados..

2012-03-19 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Rodrigo, In the layers properties dialogue (double click a layer to open the dialogue) you can find the Fields tab. For each column you can select a widget. You can select Unique Values or Value Map or even a value relation to another table containing the entries. Hope this helps.

Re: [Qgis-user] Sequential Route Assessment

2012-03-19 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 19/03/2012 14:24, Matt Nelson ha scritto: Hi Everyone, I was wondering if anyone can help? I want to get a set of distances along a non linear vector line (road) from point a to point b, where they cross a raster image with 2 distinct colours. I found the Terrain Profile python plugin

[Qgis-user] create hotspots

2012-03-19 Thread GREGORY.WILSON
I am attempting to use QGIS to create hotspots for location homeless in Williamsburg Virginia,USA. I am sure such a remote area of the USA would not be in your gis data. The map would have to have some detail due to some of the hotspots having to cover wooded areas. Can you suggest a site or

[Qgis-user] Collecting Events

2012-03-19 Thread Jim(tm)
Greetings, all! I am attempting to create size-graduated point markers for burglary data based on the number of burglaries per address. With Arc, one would use the Collect Events tool to combine multiple points into a single weighted point - eg, from 5 points representing burglaries at one

Re: [Qgis-user] Collecting Events

2012-03-19 Thread pcreso
Hi Jim, I don't think you can do quite the same thing... but you can achieve a comparable result. I generate a dataset which has the location number of events there, then use the symbology tool to scale the symbol by the count, optionally use the count as the label. I manage virtually

Re: [Qgis-user] Transferiing a project from MapInfor to QGIS....Please help.....

2012-03-19 Thread Goyo
El día 19 de marzo de 2012 00:59, naomi jackson naomijackson...@yahoo.com escribió: This project will be launched on PC's for certain departments and they do not work with QGIS(they need it for display only) and most of the time they require a automated program where they do not need to learn

Re: [Qgis-user] Relative paths

2012-03-19 Thread Alister Hood
Depending on where the svgs are you might be experiencing this: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4056 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:49:13 + From: Gerhardus Geldenhuis gerhardus.geldenh...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Relative paths To: Andreas Neumann a.neum...@carto.net Cc:

[Qgis-user] Fwd: [talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Esri donation to OpenStreetMap Foundation

2012-03-19 Thread Noli Sicad
ESRI (ArcGis) is into OSM geodata as well. Noli -- Forwarded message -- From: Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:50:32 +0800 Subject: [talk-ph] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Esri donation to OpenStreetMap Foundation To: OpenStreetMap Philippines

Re: [Qgis-user] create hotspots

2012-03-19 Thread mick
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:40:14 -0400 gregory.wil...@hamptonu.edu wrote: I am attempting to use QGIS to create hotspots for location homeless in Williamsburg Virginia,USA. I am sure such a remote area of the USA would not be in your gis data. The map would have to have some detail due to some

Re: [Qgis-user] create hotspots

2012-03-19 Thread Noli Sicad
I can't say for sure if it has the detail you require but it might be worth checking OpenStreetMap ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=37.8646lon=-78.1928zoom=14layers=M ) as a starting point. The, you can import this OSM data using QGIS OSM plugin to QGIS (e.g. convert to shapefile). (see

Re: [Qgis-user] create hotspots [OOPS]

2012-03-19 Thread mick
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:32:16 +1000 mick bare...@tpg.com.au wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:40:14 -0400 gregory.wil...@hamptonu.edu wrote: I am attempting to use QGIS to create hotspots for location homeless in Williamsburg Virginia,USA. I am sure such a remote area of the USA would not be

Re: [Qgis-user] PostGIS database creation wizzard

2012-03-19 Thread mick
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 08:05:47 +1100 Noli Sicad nsi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to all who offered advice, I'm still looking into what is most comfortable for me, in between hospital stays, so its taking me more effort and time than usual. mick Correction, I was not using osm2postgresql but

[Qgis-user] Data capture in QGIS with offline PostGIS

2012-03-19 Thread Nathan Woodrow
Hi all, I'm currently looking at building a data collection program based on QGIS. One of the requirements is that it must have an offline datastore with syncing to the server on demand/timed. I have tried the Offline editing plugin but it's not quite what I was looking for. More looking for