Re: [Qgis-user] color ramp plugin broken ?

2012-09-23 Thread Andre Joost
Am 23.09.2012 21:53, schrieb Etienne Tourigny: I haven't made any docs yet, I though it was straight-forward to use, but I guess not. As a software user, I can tell you that this almost never works ;-) First you select the package you want - Use gradients that ship with qgis -> uses the

Re: [Qgis-user] color ramp plugin broken ?

2012-09-23 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 23/09/2012 21:53, Etienne Tourigny ha scritto: > Hi, > > when does this error appear? If at install, let me kow if you can > install other packages, sounds like an installation problem. Any other > text? Please send me a screenshot. Could this be due to your proxy setting? Does the plugin honn

Re: [Qgis-user] Howto: load ArcGIS "mapserver" raster layers

2012-09-23 Thread Alister Hood
Hi everyone, Just a quick follow up, as I've learned it is actually even easier than I described: 1. You can automatically generate a service description xml like this: gdal_translate "http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer?f=json&pretty=true"; ESRI_world_i

Re: [Qgis-user] "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal" people?

2012-09-23 Thread Etienne Tourigny
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Even Rouault wrote: > Le dimanche 23 septembre 2012 21:58:30, Etienne Tourigny a écrit : >> Hi Even, >> >> can you comment on using the java jackcess library? It's probably the >> only cross-platform solution. Does it support normal mdb files, and if >> not, can it

[Qgis-user] Colour field in the style box

2012-09-23 Thread Rhys A.D. Stewart
Greetings all!, Hope all is well. I think it would be great if their was a colour field in the same vein as the rotation and scale fields in the Layer Properties/Style dialog box. That way one could just pull the colour for the feature straight from the provider. Would also reduce compute time if

Re: [Qgis-user] Fwd: "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal" people?

2012-09-23 Thread Johan Nilsson
According to this, ERSI recommend file geodatabase over personal geodatabas and arcsde are for multiuser system and need additional software and licenes, I tthink. So If you only have Arcgis they recommend file database och personal geodatabase, not ArcSDE. I think. http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisd

Re: [Qgis-user] "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal" people?

2012-09-23 Thread Even Rouault
Le dimanche 23 septembre 2012 21:58:30, Etienne Tourigny a écrit : > Hi Even, > > can you comment on using the java jackcess library? It's probably the > only cross-platform solution. Does it support normal mdb files, and if > not, can it benefit from your recent additions? > > http://www.gdal.or

Re: [Qgis-user] color ramp plugin broken ?

2012-09-23 Thread Etienne Tourigny
Hi, when does this error appear? If at install, let me kow if you can install other packages, sounds like an installation problem. Any other text? Please send me a screenshot. If not, is the error is when downloading a color ramp archive? If so, which one? This plugin is still marked Experimenta

Re: [Qgis-user] "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal" people?

2012-09-23 Thread Bernd Vogelgesang
yeah, i'm really passionate with that stuff! ;) ok, so that means that there is something in the pipeline and will be available sooner or later (and from my experience with the great development of qgis in the past hopefully sooner than later) Many thanx Bernd Am 23.09.2012, 21:01 Uhr, sc

Re: [Qgis-user] "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal" people?

2012-09-23 Thread Even Rouault
Le dimanche 23 septembre 2012 20:54:06, Bernd Vogelgesang a écrit : > > I've just added some magic to the OGR ODBC driver in GDAL trunk (GDAL > > 2.0dev) > > so that it can open directly non-spatial MDB databases on Windows. > > > > Note: this is just a shortcut for the "normal" syntax that should

Re: [Qgis-user] Fwd: "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal" people?

2012-09-23 Thread Andrea Peri
Yes is true. Esri don't recommend the personal-gdb. Esri recommend the arcsde version. Because the access db is slow and with size limit (2GB). The spatialite instead has not a size limit and is fast. :) But I guess there is another more important question: spatialite work in double precision in

Re: [Qgis-user] "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal" people?

2012-09-23 Thread Bernd Vogelgesang
I've just added some magic to the OGR ODBC driver in GDAL trunk (GDAL 2.0dev) so that it can open directly non-spatial MDB databases on Windows. Note: this is just a shortcut for the "normal" syntax that should work currently : ogrinfo ODBC:DRIVER=Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb);DBQ=filename

Re: [Qgis-user] color ramp plugin broken ?

2012-09-23 Thread Andre Joost
Am 23.09.2012 17:07, schrieb Andrea Peri: Hi, try-ing to install the plugin Color-Ramp. I see this error: The plugin is broken, Python said: socket error. I try to install it on qgis-dev (58ba3f0) from osgeo-setup. Anyone has succesfull installing it ? I guess you talk of the colorrampmanage

Re: [Qgis-user] "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal" people?

2012-09-23 Thread Even Rouault
Le samedi 22 septembre 2012 00:59:43, Bernd Vogelgesang a écrit : > Hi there, > from a talk at the German User Meeting today in Kassel (thanx to Claas for > the organization), i got the impression that ONE important thing in qgis > is still missing: > Direct support for normal access databases! >

Re: [Qgis-user] Fwd: "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal" people?

2012-09-23 Thread Johan Nilsson
But ESRI does NOT recommend to use personal-geodatabases as i show in a link, above. It's get slow around 500Mb and have a maximun limit of 2GB for instance. /Cheers 2012/9/23 Andrea Peri > I guess who buy an arcgis, should still use it. :)) > > If an user is happy with the results of arcgis

[Qgis-user] Fwd: "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal" people?

2012-09-23 Thread Andrea Peri
I guess who buy an arcgis, should still use it. :)) If an user is happy with the results of arcgis and its personal-geodatabse. AFAIK arcgis and personal-geodatabase, has a simpatic mechanism to transform the coords in a quantized value coords. It a curious mechanism perhpas the best an human can

[Qgis-user] color ramp plugin broken ?

2012-09-23 Thread Andrea Peri
Hi, try-ing to install the plugin Color-Ramp. I see this error: The plugin is broken, Python said: socket error. I try to install it on qgis-dev (58ba3f0) from osgeo-setup. Anyone has succesfull installing it ? -- - Andrea Peri . . . . . . . . . qwerty àèìòù -

[Qgis-user] Fwd: gfx in WSG 84 added to another CRS (EPSG:3021)

2012-09-23 Thread Johan Nilsson
If i said in the beguinning of my post I can transform, by save layer as shape, and there choose the RT90 coordinate-system (it say it is in wsg 84). It just when I add a different layer, the transformation to metric system, it's fail. /Cheers -- Forwarded message -- From: Bo Vict

Re: [Qgis-user] Fwd: "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal" people?

2012-09-23 Thread Bernd Vogelgesang
Dear list, thanx for sharing your insights on spatialite etc. (i like spatialite as well very much and also prefer the spatialite_gui for e.g. importing files cause it' way faster), but as André stated, this thread was originally about MS Access databases support in QGIS. Of course i would

Re: [Qgis-user] gfx in WSG 84 added to another CRS (EPSG:3021)

2012-09-23 Thread Johan Nilsson
Don't work May it be that CRS have at least to components? Projections (Shape-models of the earth) and Coordinate-system (defined as a grid from Equator and Greenwich, but different according to the place on earth), and Enable 'on the fly' reprojections don't change units from degrees to the metric