Re: [Qgis-user] Fwd: joining vector layers

2014-03-27 Thread Anita Graser
Am 26.03.2014, 22:52 Uhr, schrieb Martin Harvey kitenet...@googlemail.com: Many thanks for the replies, I think I've got that working now (although it is taking a very long time for the process to complete, think I was too impatient the first time round!). Hi Martin, SAGA Add polygon

[Qgis-user] Buffer distance doubt

2014-03-27 Thread Luis Miguel Royo Pérez
Hi everyone, I've got a doubt about buffer in the field Distance... why are multiple of 100km? I mean, if I insert *1*, the buffer is about *100*km, and so on. Anyone can resolve my doubt? Thank you!!! ___ Qgis-user mailing list

Re: [Qgis-user] Buffer distance doubt

2014-03-27 Thread Zoltan Szecsei
errr.. never worked with QGIS buffers, and you haven't given much info, but: Is your coord system LatLong? Depending on your latitude, 1 degree can be about 100km HTH, Zoltan On 2014/03/27 11:23, Luis Miguel Royo Pérez wrote: Hi everyone, I've got a doubt about buffer in the field

Re: [Qgis-user] Fwd: joining vector layers

2014-03-27 Thread Martin Harvey
Wow, thanks Anita, that looks very useful - my Join query did eventually work but it took 10 hours, will certainly try the Add polygon attributes to points next time. Martin -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Fwd-joining-vector-layers-tp5131355p5131464.html

[Qgis-user] The QGIS Podcast Episode 5 - Top Tips for QGIS and interview with Jeffrey Johnson

2014-03-27 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi All Just a note to say that the QGIS Podcast episode 5 is now online. To listen to the podcast using the web player, and to view the show notes, please visit [1]. You can also find a link on that page to subscribe to the QGIS Podcast using your podcast client. If you would like to contribute

[Qgis-user] QGIS and File Geodatabases

2014-03-27 Thread Joseph Sloop
Can QGIS 2.0 handle file geodatabases prior to ArcGIS 10.0? Thanks, Joseph _ Joseph Sloop PhD Student University of North Carolina at Greensboro Department of Geography jbsl...@uncg.edu ___ Qgis-user mailing list

[Qgis-user] QGIS and File Geodatabases

2014-03-27 Thread Joseph Sloop
Can QGIS 2.0 handle file geodatabases prior to ArcGIS 10.0? Thanks, Joseph _ Joseph Sloop PhD Student University of North Carolina at Greensboro Department of Geography jbsl...@uncg.edu ___ Qgis-user mailing list

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS and File Geodatabases

2014-03-27 Thread Guido Stein
I don't think so. The File GDB format prior to 10 is not supported by the API. -Guido On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Joseph Sloop jbsl...@uncg.edu wrote: Can QGIS 2.0 handle file geodatabases prior to ArcGIS 10.0? Thanks, Joseph _ Joseph Sloop PhD

[Qgis-user] How to update the geometry of a table

2014-03-27 Thread Rhys A.D. Stewart
Greetings all, I have a couple hundred rows of a table that I would like to update with new coordinates, I'm trying to figure out how to do this in QGIS (i.e. i know i can do this through the sql tool). I can't see a way to modify the geometry directly in the field calculator. I'm trying to do

Re: [Qgis-user] How to update the geometry of a table

2014-03-27 Thread Saber Razmjooei
Rhys From Vector menu Geometry Tools Add/Export geometry columns. Cheers, Saber From: qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Rhys A.D. Stewart Sent: 27 March 2014 14:24 To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [Qgis-user] How to

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem opening .GDB (v 10.1) using QGIS

2014-03-27 Thread cdp
That's the process I used to open the file. ESRI FileGDB was selected by default. Still no luck. The data is supposed to be an Esri file geodatabase created with ArcGIS 10.1. The data is stream network data from the BC provincial government and can be found at the following FTP location if

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem opening .GDB (v 10.1) using QGIS

2014-03-27 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:32 AM, cdp cdapo...@synergyaspen.ca wrote: The data is supposed to be an Esri file geodatabase created with ArcGIS 10.1. The data is stream network data from the BC provincial government and can be found at the following FTP location if anyone wants to try it out

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem opening .GDB (v 10.1) using QGIS

2014-03-27 Thread Eric Goddard
I have gdal built with FileGDB support and I was unable to open the geodatabase; QGIS gave an invalid datasource error. Arcpy reports that it is indeed a version 10/10.1 database though. Using ogrinfo -al FWA_LINEAR_BOUNDARIES_SP.gdb reports that it was successfully opened: INFO: Open of

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS and File Geodatabases

2014-03-27 Thread Alex Mandel
It might be possible with the experimental OpenFileGDB driver http://erouault.blogspot.com/2014/01/ogr-openfilegdb-driver.html Thanks, Alex On 03/27/2014 06:29 AM, Guido Stein wrote: I don't think so. The File GDB format prior to 10 is not supported by the API. -Guido On Thu, Mar 27,

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem opening .GDB (v 10.1) using QGIS

2014-03-27 Thread cdp
so did both of you successfully open the file in QGIS but QGIS did not present the theme picker? When I open the file I only receive a red bar across QGIS which tells me something must also be wrong with my setup. I installed the GDAL GBD library in QGIS...are there other libraries that need to

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS and File Geodatabases

2014-03-27 Thread Even Rouault
Selon Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com: It might be possible with the experimental OpenFileGDB driver http://erouault.blogspot.com/2014/01/ogr-openfilegdb-driver.html Well, I hope it is not that experimental ;-) Actually, it works on that dataset. $ ogrinfo -ro

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem opening .GDB (v 10.1) using QGIS

2014-03-27 Thread Eric Goddard
In another thread about QGIS and FileGeodatabases, there is a link to the OpenFileGDB driver [1]. It mentions a different type of compression that the fileGDB API doesn't support. It doesn't appear that the FWA_LINEAR_BOUNDARIES_SP.gdb has that type of compression so it should be able to load in

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem opening .GDB (v 10.1) using QGIS

2014-03-27 Thread Even Rouault
Selon Eric Goddard egoddard1...@gmail.com: In another thread about QGIS and FileGeodatabases, there is a link to the OpenFileGDB driver [1]. It mentions a different type of compression that the fileGDB API doesn't support. It doesn't appear that the FWA_LINEAR_BOUNDARIES_SP.gdb has that type

[Qgis-user] Plugins documentation

2014-03-27 Thread Pedro Jorge de Sousa Ferreira
Hi, For those who don't have, I would like to suggest to the developers of new, or existing plugins available in the plugin repository to produce some sort of documentation explaining how to use their plugin. It's annoying and some times frustrating, trying to figure out how a plugin works, simply

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem opening .GDB (v 10.1) using QGIS

2014-03-27 Thread Clifford Snow
Even, How do we get the OpenFileGDB driver? On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Even Rouault even.roua...@mines-paris.org wrote: Selon Eric Goddard egoddard1...@gmail.com: In another thread about QGIS and FileGeodatabases, there is a link to the OpenFileGDB driver [1]. It mentions a

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem opening .GDB (v 10.1) using QGIS

2014-03-27 Thread Even Rouault
Selon Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us: Even, How do we get the OpenFileGDB driver? It is in the development version of GDAL. So for now you have to compile GDAL from sources. But the development version should be released as GDAL 1.11 within one month I think. Then the QGIS team will

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem opening .GDB (v 10.1) using QGIS

2014-03-27 Thread Randal Hale
I was able to open FWA_Watershed_Boundaries_SP.gdb in ArcGIS 10.2 - but not in QGIS 2.2. OGRinfo would open it - but I couldn't seem to get a list of layers. Randy - Randal Hale, GISP North River Geographic Systems, Inc http://www.northrivergeographic.com 423.653.3611

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem opening .GDB (v 10.1) using QGIS

2014-03-27 Thread Saulteau Don
This is because something changed in ArcGIS = 10.x on how they apply the BC Albers projection (EPSG:3005). Those datasets now have to be opened in ArcGIS and the projection has to be Defined as BC Albers, because it's using PCS_Albers (projection name), gdal sees this as a custom projection so it