Re: [Qgis-user] OsGeo4W-setup

2012-07-24 Thread legiopatrianostra
Hello Andreas, Maybe I was not very clear, I like to work with the dev version, and when I access through the Internet to download the Qgis 1.9.0 (OSGeo4W-setup.exe), the icons of the Qgis 1.9.0 - Desktop and Bowser , does not appear either on the desktop or the Start Menu, All Programs, OSGeo4W

Re: [Qgis-user] OsGeo4W-setup

2012-07-24 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Oliveira, In OSGeo4W you should select the Advanced install option. Then when you select the packages you should select qgis (currently version 1.8x) and qgis-dev (currently version 1.9x). Here is a step-by-step installation instruction:

Re: [Qgis-user] Selecting polygons on attribute

2012-07-24 Thread Andre Joost
Am 24.07.12 14:10, schrieb Zoltan Szecsei: The selects I have tried are: sq21code = C016* and also tried using IN Any ideas what I am doing wrong and what I should try next? The * used as a wildcard in the Windows world is not used in SQL statements. You should try the LIKE operator:

[Qgis-user] objects disappearing when exporting to PDF

2012-07-24 Thread Christy Ihlo
Hello All, I am having a slight problem with some of my symbols disappearing from either the map or the legend when I export my map from the print composer to a pdf. I have tried closing and re-opening the map and also removing the layers and re-adding them. Neither of these options seems to

Re: [Qgis-user] Selecting polygons on attribute

2012-07-24 Thread Micha Silver
On 07/24/2012 03:10 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: Hi, I have a SHP file of some 1.1m polygons, of which I need to select about half of them, and save them as a separate SHP file. The trouble is when I select either via a Query, or via the TABLE

Re: [Qgis-user] Selecting polygons on attribute - Trying OGR

2012-07-24 Thread Zoltan Szecsei
On 2012/07/24 16:41, Micha Silver wrote: On 07/24/2012 03:10 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: Hi, I have a SHP file of some 1.1m polygons, of which I need to select about half of them, and save them as a separate SHP file. The trouble is when I select either via a Query, or via the TABLE using the

Re: [Qgis-user] Selecting polygons on attribute - Trying OGR

2012-07-24 Thread Micha Silver
On 07/24/2012 05:52 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: On 2012/07/24 16:41, Micha Silver wrote: On 07/24/2012 03:10 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: Hi, I have a SHP file of some 1.1m polygons, of which I need to

Re: [Qgis-user] Selecting polygons on attribute - Trying OGR

2012-07-24 Thread Zoltan Szecsei
On 2012/07/24 17:07, Micha Silver wrote: On 07/24/2012 05:52 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: On 2012/07/24 16:41, Micha Silver wrote: On 07/24/2012 03:10 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: Hi, I have a SHP file of some 1.1m polygons, of which I need to select about half of them, and save them as a separate

Re: [Qgis-user] Selecting polygons on attribute - Trying OGR

2012-07-24 Thread Andre Joost
Am 24.07.2012 17:07, schrieb Micha Silver: This worked for me (on a *very* small shapefile. Some of the Name attributes where rest 1, rest 2 etc): ogr2ogr -f ESRI Shapefile -where Name LIKE 'Rest%' waypoints3.shp waypoints.shp Using Windows 7 cmd box, the % will get misinterpreted. But

Re: [Qgis-user] Selecting polygons on attribute - Trying OGR

2012-07-24 Thread Micha Silver
On 07/24/2012 06:11 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: On 2012/07/24 17:07, Micha Silver wrote: On 07/24/2012 05:52 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: On 2012/07/24 16:41, Micha Silver wrote:

Re: [Qgis-user] Selecting polygons on attribute - Trying OGR

2012-07-24 Thread Andre Joost
Am 24.07.2012 17:21, schrieb Micha Silver: I think the problem is the attribute column name begins with a digit. Look what happens when I rename my column from above to 21Name: In the Qgis query form, no error is produced, but all elements are 'found' after renaming the field name to

Re: [Qgis-user] Selecting polygons on attribute - Trying OGR

2012-07-24 Thread Zoltan Szecsei
On 2012/07/24 17:29, Andre Joost wrote: Am 24.07.2012 17:21, schrieb Micha Silver: I think the problem is the attribute column name begins with a digit. Look what happens when I rename my column from above to 21Name: In the Qgis query form, no error is produced, but all elements are

Re: [Qgis-user] Selecting polygons on attribute - Trying OGR

2012-07-24 Thread Micha Silver
On 07/24/2012 06:34 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: On 2012/07/24 17:29, Andre Joost wrote: Am 24.07.2012 17:21, schrieb Micha Silver: I think the problem is the attribute column name begins with a digit. Look

Re: [Qgis-user] Selecting polygons on attribute - Trying OGR

2012-07-24 Thread Zoltan Szecsei
On 2012/07/24 17:39, Micha Silver wrote: On 07/24/2012 06:34 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: On 2012/07/24 17:29, Andre Joost wrote: Am 24.07.2012 17:21, schrieb Micha Silver: I think the problem is the attribute column name begins with a digit. Look what happens when I rename my column from

Re: [Qgis-user] Selecting polygons on attribute - Trying OGR

2012-07-24 Thread Zoltan Szecsei
On 2012/07/24 18:18, Andre Joost wrote: Am 24.07.2012 18:07, schrieb Zoltan Szecsei: Use the Table Manager plugin. (or just open the dbf in OpenOffice and change *only* the name of the column) Which is the Table Manager plugin? I'm just browsing QGIS plugins repository and cannot see

Re: [Qgis-user] Selecting polygons on attribute - Trying OGR

2012-07-24 Thread Micha Silver
On 07/24/2012 07:07 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: On 2012/07/24 17:39, Micha Silver wrote: On 07/24/2012 06:34 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: On 2012/07/24 17:29, Andre Joost wrote: Am 24.07.2012 17:21, schrieb Micha Silver: I think the problem is the attribute column name begins with a digit.

Re: [Qgis-user] Print Composer issue

2012-07-24 Thread Sake Wagenaar
In the Print Composer, put the mouse pointer over the menu bar, click the right button and select both Item properties and Composition. Sake Wagenaar Op 23-7-2012 23:36, John DJ Bennet schreef: While working in Print Composer, I deleted the right-hand windows using the boxes with crosses

Re: [Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] Fwd: qgis 1.8 on MAC: Problem with qwt and more

2012-07-24 Thread Agustin Lobo
Etienne, 2012/7/24 Etienne Tourigny etourigny@gmail.com: Uploaded 0.4.0 as experimental to the main plugin repos. Those interested please test and report here or in the valuetool bugtracker. Also any feedback on the resolved bugs (#4905, #4798, #4796) is appreciated. I've been out in

Re: [Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] Fwd: qgis 1.8 on MAC: Problem with qwt and more

2012-07-24 Thread Agustin Lobo
Yes, actually this is why I thought it had been included as core in 1.8. But meanwhile, having a plugin is a very good solution. Also, we can use the plugin as a testbed and discuss different improvements, like customizing the axes. The table is not enough, you need a graph as soon as you have

Re: [Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] Fwd: qgis 1.8 on MAC: Problem with qwt and more

2012-07-24 Thread Etienne Tourigny
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Agustin Lobo alobolis...@gmail.com wrote: Etienne, 2012/7/24 Etienne Tourigny etourigny@gmail.com: Uploaded 0.4.0 as experimental to the main plugin repos. Those interested please test and report here or in the valuetool bugtracker. Also any feedback on

Re: [Qgis-user] Convert spreadsheet (excel) to vector (shape) of Points

2012-07-24 Thread Carlos Cerdán
Hi Eduardo: Save your data as a semicolon separated CSV file, and in QGIS use layer -- add delimited text layer (QGIS 1.8). It's better to use semicolon to prevent problems with decimal coma. -- Guarda tu información como un archivo de texto CSV, separado por punto y coma. En

Re: [Qgis-user] Convert spreadsheet (excel) to vector (shape) of Points

2012-07-24 Thread pcreso
Hi Eduardo I'm not sure if exporting your data as it is to CSV will work. I think you'll need to create columns with lat long values as decimal degrees to read it in as delimited text with QGIS. Given lon_d (a), lon_m (b) lon_s (c) columns in your spreadsheet you can generate a longitude