[Qgis-user] North Arrow on Print Composer

2012-07-19 Thread P. Sydler
Hi there I am setting up a print composer with QGIS 1.8. What I am missing is a plugin for the North Arrow llike the one that exists for the main QGIS window. I helped myself out with a flash and a "N" on top of it but that's not what I really want. Does anybody have a suggestions? thanks a lot

Re: [Qgis-user] No Decorations Plug-in in QGIS 1.8?

2012-07-19 Thread Etienne Tourigny
They are not plugins anymore but part of qgis core - you can find them in View->Decorations Etienne On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Terry Morse wrote: > I just upgraded from version 1.7.4 to 1.8.0 and can't find the decorations > plug-in, either through "Manage" or "Fetch." Is there some new

[Qgis-user] No Decorations Plug-in in QGIS 1.8?

2012-07-19 Thread Terry Morse
I just upgraded from version 1.7.4 to 1.8.0 and can't find the decorations plug-in, either through "Manage" or "Fetch." Is there some new way to get north arrows, copyright symbols, and scale bars in Lisboa? Thank you, Terry Morse ___ Qgis-user mailing

Re: [Qgis-user] Greek signs export & Attribute table length

2012-07-19 Thread Micha Silver
On 07/19/2012 06:28 PM, stock...@uni-koeln.de wrote: Hi *, I've got two problems - your help would be very much appreciated. 1. Exporting attribute tables as .csv- or .kml-files seems to destruct Greek signs (even in UTF-8) though they're perfec

[Qgis-user] create a tiff multy layer

2012-07-19 Thread Clara Rey Caramés
Hello everybody, I am working with multispectral images, but each band is an independent file and I need to create a multifile image. Does anybody know how to do it with qgis? Thank you! ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists

Re: [Qgis-user] Greek signs export & Attribute table length

2012-07-19 Thread Alexander Bruy
Hi, Ulrich 2012/7/19 : > 2. I can't find a way to extend the length of the string-fields of the > attribute table over 254 signs. Any ideas here? I suppose you use shapefile. In this case, you can't have attributes longer than 255 bytes, this limitation of DBF format (used to store attributes in

[Qgis-user] Greek signs export & Attribute table length

2012-07-19 Thread stockinu
Hi *, I've got two problems - your help would be very much appreciated. 1. Exporting attribute tables as .csv- or .kml-files seems to destruct Greek signs (even in UTF-8) though they're perfectly visible in QGIS itself. Any suggestions? 2. I can't find a way to extend the length of the string

[Qgis-user] AUTO : Daniel Gnerre est absent(e) (retour 06.08.2012)

2012-07-19 Thread Daniel . Gnerre
Je suis absent(e) du bureau jusqu'au 06.08.2012 Bonjour, Je suis actuellement absent et serai de retour le lundi 6 août. Je traiterai votre message à mon retour. Votre message n'a pas été dévié. Daniel Gnerre Remarque : ceci est une réponse automatique à votre message "Qgis-user Digest, Vol

[Qgis-user] Happy 10th birthday QGIS.

2012-07-19 Thread maning sambale
In celebration of QGIS' 10th birthday, I did a workshop in AGSE 2012 FOSS4G track today. Lots of new converts today. http://spatialgalaxy.net/2012/07/18/qgis-is-ten-years-old/ -- cheers, maning -- "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all

Re: [Qgis-user] Is there a limit of loaded files in QGis 1.8 ?

2012-07-19 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Lorenzo, One thing that is worth a try is to use VRT files. See http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_vrt.html With a vrt file you can combine several files that have the same table structure to one virtual file. Maybe it is worth a try? I don't know if the same OS limitations apply then or not.

Re: [Qgis-user] Is there a limit of loaded files in QGis 1.8 ?

2012-07-19 Thread Germán Carrillo
For those who want to try things out, in a Unix shell type: lsof -p 10371 where 10371 is the QGIS process id (so, adjust it). Each time you open a file, enter the same command and you'll see how many files QGIS is opening. Regards, Germán 2012/7/19 maning sambale > would loading the shapefi

Re: [Qgis-user] Is there a limit of loaded files in QGis 1.8 ?

2012-07-19 Thread maning sambale
would loading the shapefile as zip help? On Jul 19, 2012 4:10 PM, "Giovanni Manghi" wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 09:15 +0200, Germán Carrillo wrote: > > Hi, > > > > indeed, it is an operating system (OS) restriction. In my GNU/Linux > > the limit is 1024 by default, but you are able to change i

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem with "add postgis layers" in qgis 1.80

2012-07-19 Thread Bernhard Ströbl
olumns). The detection is now done in a thread, so you can cancel the detection. also as a user - how? Bernhard __ Information from ESET Mail Security, version of virus signature database 7311 (20120719) __ The message was checked by ESET Mail Security. http://www.eset.com

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem with "add postgis layers" in qgis 1.80

2012-07-19 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Bernhard, On Thu, 19. Jul 2012 at 11:01:24 +0200, Bernhard Ströbl wrote: > Therefore QGIS 1.7.4 loads the view with an sql-query e.g. > "upper(geometrytype("the_geom")) IN ('POLYGON','MULTIPOLYGON')" whereas > 1.8 does not. So 1.7 only checked 100 features and detected their > geometry ty

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem with "add postgis layers" in qgis 1.80

2012-07-19 Thread Bernhard Ströbl
ad of all rows. Jürgen sorry for the fuzz, I had the metadata tickbox checke in my 1.7 install it is considerably faster with that setting in 1.8, too Bernhard __ Information from ESET Mail Security, version of virus signature database 7311 (20120719) __ The message

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem with "add postgis layers" in qgis 1.80

2012-07-19 Thread Bernhard Ströbl
w rows in the tables which are not listed geometry_columns instead of all rows. Jürgen sorry for the fuzz, I had the metadata tickbox checke in my 1.7 install it is considerably faster with that setting in 1.8, too Bernhard __ Information from ESET Mail Security, version of virus sign

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem with "add postgis layers" in qgis 1.80

2012-07-19 Thread Bernhard Ströbl
me for me: I use a postgis database with openstreetmap data of my region. The table for (multi-)polygons takes a lot of time to detect the type of elements. Only one table, but lots of elements in there (one for every building...) Greetings, Andre Joost

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem with "add postgis layers" in qgis 1.80

2012-07-19 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Siegfried, On Thu, 19. Jul 2012 at 07:14:31 +0200, siegfried.bl...@lazbw.bwl.de wrote: >'add postgis layers" is very, very slowly in qgis 1.80 when I have many >tables. It needs several (up to 10) minutes until all tables where >"detecting" every time when I want add a postgis layer

Re: [Qgis-user] Is there a limit of loaded files in QGis 1.8 ?

2012-07-19 Thread Andre Joost
Am 19.07.12 10:09, schrieb Giovanni Manghi: On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 09:15 +0200, Germán Carrillo wrote: Hi, indeed, it is an operating system (OS) restriction. In my GNU/Linux the limit is 1024 by default, but you are able to change it. You would need to search how to change it on your OS. See [1

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem with "add postgis layers" in qgis 1.80

2012-07-19 Thread Giovanni Manghi
> Not quiet the same for me: > I use a postgis database with openstreetmap data of my region. The table > for (multi-)polygons takes a lot of time to detect the type of elements. > Only one table, but lots of elements in there (one for every building...) In that DB I have also all the layers (st

Re: [Qgis-user] Is it possibel to set composer grid label units to km instead of meters?

2012-07-19 Thread Giovanni Manghi
Hi, On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 08:32 +0800, Ramon Andiñach wrote: > Absolutely! > > Just underneath where you told the Print Composer to use 1000 for the Segment > size (map units) is a box labeled "Map units per bar unit". Have a play with > that. > > A bit further down is a box for "Unit label" w

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem with "add postgis layers" in qgis 1.80

2012-07-19 Thread Andre Joost
Am 19.07.12 10:09, schrieb Giovanni Manghi: On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 07:14 +0200, siegfried.bl...@lazbw.bwl.de wrote: Hallo ‚add postgis layers“ is very, very slowly in qgis 1.80 when I have many tables. It needs several (up to 10) minutes until all tables where “detecting” every time when I want

Re: [Qgis-user] Is there a limit of loaded files in QGis 1.8 ?

2012-07-19 Thread Giovanni Manghi
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 09:15 +0200, Germán Carrillo wrote: > Hi, > > indeed, it is an operating system (OS) restriction. In my GNU/Linux > the limit is 1024 by default, but you are able to change it. You would > need to search how to change it on your OS. See [1]. yes, it is a OS limit and remem

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem with "add postgis layers" in qgis 1.80

2012-07-19 Thread Giovanni Manghi
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 07:14 +0200, siegfried.bl...@lazbw.bwl.de wrote: > Hallo > > ‚add postgis layers“ is very, very slowly in qgis 1.80 when I have > many tables. It needs several (up to 10) minutes until all tables > where “detecting” every time when I want add a postgis layer. > > Thanks for

Re: [Qgis-user] Is there a limit of loaded files in QGis 1.8 ?

2012-07-19 Thread Germán Carrillo
Hi, indeed, it is an operating system (OS) restriction. In my GNU/Linux the limit is 1024 by default, but you are able to change it. You would need to search how to change it on your OS. See [1]. Regards, Germán --- [1] http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4013 2012/7/19 Juan M. Bernales