Re: [Qgis-user] What hardware for QGIS

2012-05-31 Thread Harald Hofmann
Hi Neil, I run QGIS on an iMac i3 (12GB RAM) and on a MacBook Pro i7 (8GB RAM). Both work fine. Installation is super easy. Just follow William Kyngesburye's instructions as Lee has already mentioned. I think, and I am neither a GIS nor a QGIS specialist (just a very limited user), combining

Re: [Qgis-user] What hardware for QGIS

2012-05-31 Thread Lee Hachadoorian
Hi Neil, I'm not a Mac user, so these partial answers are based on running QGIS on Ubuntu Linux and also running ArcGIS in a VM. On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:56 AM, wrote: > Hello, > > I am just getting to know QGIS having taken a brief two day overview course > at GISRUK 2012 and realised that it

[Qgis-user] Query Layer / Rule Based Rendering Problem

2012-05-31 Thread James Stott
I have created a query in the DB Manager SQL Window (data is in a PostGIS database). The query is then added to the map as a layer. I copy the style from another layer (rule based style), paste it to my query layer and the polygons disappear from the map and QGIS gives a nextFeature() without sele

Re: [Qgis-user] converting many kml to one shapefile

2012-05-31 Thread Etienne Tourigny
Vector->Data Management->Merge shapefiles but that uses all the files in a specified directory so make sure you put all your kml files in a separate directory Etienne On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Giacomo Fontanelli wrote: > Hello > I have a folder with 15 polygon files in .kml format. > I'v

[Qgis-user] Segfault when try to open project properties or set SRS of a layer

2012-05-31 Thread William Furnass
Hi, I've recently installed QGIS from the ubuntugis repository on a machine running Ubuntu 12.04. I find that I get a segfault whenever I try to open the project properties or set the SRS of a layer. However I can set the project SRS _from_ a layer without QGIS crashing. I'm wondering if the pr

[Qgis-user] converting many kml to one shapefile

2012-05-31 Thread Giacomo Fontanelli
Hello I have a folder with 15 polygon files in .kml format. I've imported those in QGis and i would like to know how to convert all the .kml polygons in a single polygon shapefile. Thank you ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://list

[Qgis-user] What hardware for QGIS

2012-05-31 Thread neil2
Hello, I am just getting to know QGIS having taken a brief two day overview course at GISRUK 2012 and realised that it really is becoming a practical alternative to Arc. One of the many attractions of it is the possibility to also escape from windows. So I am looking at buying an Apple Mac a