Re: [Qgis-user] Testing OSGeo4W 64bit

2013-08-28 Thread Brad Nesom
I am still not successful with the install. I have tried several times using different folders than the 32 install and it creates all the folders (both the application and the http download), also the application group that I select (different from 32 bit) is there. But there are no links created

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 1.8: How to produce a sheet line system map?

2013-03-01 Thread Brad Nesom
in arcmap I can setup ddp (data driven pages). Run a tool to split my alignment by a given length, and then tell ddp to create a sheet for each segment. Which is ok until your segments go from north-south to east-west orientation (makes you decide whether to rotate the page or not or make a square

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 1.8: How to produce a sheet line system map?

2013-03-01 Thread Brad Nesom
to shorten the process(and make the system a bit more uniform). What I do is 1. decide on the paper size I want, 2. create a shapefile with that size polygon, 3. scale, rotate and move that polygon up to world coordintates, 4. copy that polygon and move each one along alignment. 5. Edit the page in

Re: [Qgis-user] Opening gdb files

2013-02-05 Thread Brad Nesom
Did you choose add vector data, folder? then browse to the folder.gdb. > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Paul Lens wrote: > >> Hi List, >> >> I cannot open gdb files, using QGIS 1.8.9 GDAL/OGR 1.9.2 on windows >> Vista sp2. >> >> According to the post: "http://gis.stackexchange.com/** >> que

Re: [Qgis-user] Opening gdb files

2013-02-05 Thread Brad Nesom
Did you choose add vector data, folder? then browse to the folder.gdb. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Paul Lens wrote: > Hi List, > > I cannot open gdb files, using QGIS 1.8.9 GDAL/OGR 1.9.2 on windows Vista > sp2. > > According to the post: "http://gis.stackexchange.com/** > questions/26285

Re: [Qgis-user] How to join shapefile tables via their FIDs?

2012-12-03 Thread Brad Nesom
actually I think you probably want the intersect command. I don't see it in the help so. Vector> geoprocessing tools> intersect. Choose your point file first and the polygon layer to overlay with it. it will append all attributes from the polygon layer to the point layer. Then you can join the poly

Re: [Qgis-user] How to join shapefile tables via their FIDs?

2012-12-03 Thread Brad Nesom
+1 dedicated primary key field each time an object is edited (split/delete/merge) the fid is thrown away and renewed. This is at the base level. It has to be that way to keep the relationship between the diffent files "in" the shapefile related. (i.e. dbf, shx, shp). As haubourg suggests - create a

Re: [Qgis-user] DXF EXPORT

2012-10-02 Thread Brad Nesom
I see it in qgis 1.9.0 gdal 1.9.1-2 On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Zirneklitis wrote: > LWPOLYLINE handle should not be zero: > > http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4381#note-5 > > Reincarnation of old bug? > > > What is the QGIS and GDAL versions? > > > Karlis > > > the_sloth wrote: >> >> Ok, I am usi

Re: [Qgis-user] DXF EXPORT

2012-09-27 Thread Brad Nesom
problem is that gdal starts writing objects out with a zero handle (which is an internal guid for autodesk) I had been using 1.8 but just installed 1.9.0 and gdal 1.7.3 and still get the same error. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Brad Nesom wrote: > The error might help. > If it happens

Re: [Qgis-user] DXF file & geometry

2012-06-19 Thread Brad Nesom
that is probably the insert (anchor?), the centroid, label point, and the line list that make up the polygons. On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Philippe de FRANCLIEU < p...@parcellesetpolygones.fr> wrote: > ** > Hi, > > The geometry of a DXF file (french PCI-DXF) is defined as Polygon in the > me

Re: [Qgis-user] FW: Problem with Ubuntu 12

2012-06-14 Thread Brad Nesom
and some of us may not even understand. I have kubuntu. Something said here seems to mean that is (KDE) unity? but don't understand if that is true. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Etienne Tourigny wrote: > Agreed - but many Unity users might not, so it should at least work as > expected... >

Re: [Qgis-user] Digitizing Idea...

2012-03-21 Thread Brad Nesom
or autocad rasters snap. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=2600114&siteID=123112 On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:58 AM, maning sambale wrote: > A qgis version of Arc' R2V? > > > http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc98/proceed/to200/pap195/p195.htm > > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 a

Re: [Qgis-user] KML import into QGIS problems and confusion

2012-02-10 Thread Brad Nesom
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:41 AM, spiderplant0 wrote: > I am having problems importing KML vectors into QGIS. > To try and figure out whats going wrong I carried out an experiment... > > In QGIS, created a simple vector shapefile containing one polygon (set to > EPSG900913). > Used QGIS to save it

Re: [Qgis-user] files dwg in QGIS

2011-12-19 Thread Brad Nesom
one use it? DWG support in FDO would be one reason to look > into FDO. > > Andreas > > On 12/19/2011 08:50 PM, Brad Nesom wrote: > > I believe dwg is supported in the fdo library. > > I have often wondered what kept the qgis dev from using fdo? > > http://fdo.osgeo.o

Re: [Qgis-user] files dwg in QGIS

2011-12-19 Thread Brad Nesom
I believe dwg is supported in the fdo library. I have often wondered what kept the qgis dev from using fdo? http://fdo.osgeo.org/OSProviderOverviews.html I do see some overlap but adding eliminating providers is a simple task (that even I can do). On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Even Rouault wrot

Re: [Qgis-user] new xytools plugin: now open and save simple Excel files

2011-12-15 Thread Brad Nesom
ncluded the function "export table to excel". > > Thanks > > > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Brad Nesom wrote: > >> Filipe, >> You should note that excel does that on it's own. >> if you look at your data and there is a small green triangl

Re: [Qgis-user] new xytools plugin: now open and save simple Excel files

2011-12-15 Thread Brad Nesom
Filipe, You should note that excel does that on it's own. if you look at your data and there is a small green triangle in the upper left corner, that means the data is "available" to be formated as numeric. simply select all the cells that show that (don't select the column heading name) and then

Re: [Qgis-user] Transparency of categorized layers

2011-11-14 Thread Brad Nesom
you might try applying the transparency before categorizing. On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Roger André wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a way to apply a uniform amount of transparency to every category > in a categorized layer? In other words, to treat the categorized layers as > a single group

Re: [Qgis-user] Scale seems strange in

2011-11-02 Thread Brad Nesom
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Re: [Qgis-user] Scale seems strange in

2011-11-02 Thread Brad Nesom
I am thinking rather than that it is just the fact that when you use degrees, moving in the map would give you a different scale. Because every time you move north or south you have changed the length of the x distance. If you pan left and right (very carefully) do you see the scale not change?

Re: [Qgis-user] RE: [Qgis-community-team] Problem changing a shapefile's coordinates

2011-09-28 Thread Brad Nesom
we like to hear about the solutions. (esp when they are silly). I was about to suggest gdal for raster re-project. but knew you would need the original projection. glad to hear. 2011/9/28 giannis Nj > Problem solved guys, than you all for the help. > > > > > -- >

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem changing a shapefile's coordinates

2011-09-27 Thread Brad Nesom
my suggestion is load each file seperately by itself. find a location in the file tha tis at least close to the same point for each.note the coordinates of the project. if all the files are in fact lat lon (4326) the values should be like 35, 98. or 35, -98 if they are 100k size there is a good c

Re: [Qgis-user] Reset GISDBASE for GRASS plugin

2011-09-20 Thread Brad Nesom
\GrassData However since updating my osgeo4w installation I now have no .grass6 file. And there is a .grassrc6 file and a .grasswx6 file. grass starts (standalone) but the error in qgis persists. On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Micha Silver wrote: > On 19/09/2011 17:21, Brad Nesom wrote: > &g

[Qgis-user] Re: Natty apt key

2011-09-04 Thread Brad Nesom
W: GPG error: http://qgis.org natty Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1313318730 KEYEXPIRED 1313318730 KEYEXPIRED 1313318730 On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Brad Nesom wrote: > Still trying, > Now using synaptic package manager, and changing settings to

[Qgis-user] Re: Natty apt key

2011-09-04 Thread Brad Nesom
-common_1.7.0~natty1_all.deb Size mismatch W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu/pool/main/q/qgis/qgis-plugin-grass-common_1.7.0~natty1_all.deb Size mismatch On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Brad Nesom wrote: > I upgraded to natty this weekend and

[Qgis-user] Natty apt key

2011-09-04 Thread Brad Nesom
I upgraded to natty this weekend and am trying to get my qgis up and running again. When I use the apt key from the qgis.org website I still get 2010 expired 8-14-11 Is there a new key for natty? ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http:/

Re: [Qgis-user] change CRS of layer

2011-07-31 Thread Brad Nesom
as long as the incorrect layer is shp. you can delete (rename would be better) the prj file. On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Matt Boyd wrote: > If the layer isn't being picked up correctly in the first place I'd go: > > create new project: set project CRS to the one the layer is in > load the v

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Multiple geometries in an import file (Darryl Bailey)

2011-07-25 Thread Brad Nesom
The benefit of object oriented programming. ESRI has the network analyst extension, schematics extension, which together allow the topology to be accurately described (network analyst) and the data to be simplified for cartographic (schematic) purposes. Along with full support for many RDBMS rules

Re: [Qgis-user] Mapbooks with Easyprint

2011-07-14 Thread Brad Nesom
hello Giovanni, I added this repository last week also. I was not included in my osgeo4w install. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Alexandre Neto wrote: > Hello Giovanni, > > I have the one installed by default with QGIS 1.7. Version 1.2.1. And that > Repository was not available. I had 12 repo

Re: [Qgis-user] Batch query web database

2011-07-12 Thread Brad Nesom
Perhaps just build an attribute with the link in it? In most cases the atttribute table would be displayed in a seperate window anyway. so if the browser is the seperate window so what? On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Lee wrote: > Not necessarily a qgis question, but one which is in our real

Re: [Qgis-user] win7 install prob osgeo4w

2011-06-24 Thread Brad Nesom
not the same message as mine but it is in the /bin. I am having a problem installing osgeo4w on win7. It downloads and then starts install and comes to cygwin and says stop any instances of cygwin running or continue with restart. ___ Qgis-user mailing li

Re: [Qgis-user] scale dependent point clustering (for visualization only)

2011-06-01 Thread Brad Nesom
something similar to this? http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/flex/samples/index.html?sample=FeatureLayerClustering I don't mean for the post to irritate. It is such an elegant solution (although a web solution) I just had to show it. Maybe someone can work some magic in qgis. On Fri, May 27, 201

Re: [Qgis-user] 1-band raster plugin and grass r.colors

2011-05-19 Thread Brad Nesom
Hello Benoit, Did you leave out the reference to [1]? On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Benoit wrote: > Hi Maning, > > Short answer: No. > > I've only included a few default rules from Grass. > > Note that "1-band raster colour" plugin is based on colour palette files > (one file per palette),

[Qgis-user] enceladus image

2011-05-13 Thread Brad Nesom
I thought this was a nice photo of a version gone by. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110512.html ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] Python Code to Clip Vector layers

2011-05-10 Thread Brad Nesom
Did you look in arcpy? On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Saber wrote: > For basic clipping, you can try ogr2ogr tool. Its a command line tool which > you can write shell scripts for. > > Cheers > Saber > > DelphineJB wrote: > > >I am new to Python programming and relatively new to QGIS. So bewar

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: ArcInfo gdb file system

2011-04-25 Thread Brad Nesom
rs, > sam > > On 4/25/11, Brad Nesom wrote: > > to help clarify. The file geodatabase format for esri is a folder > structure > > with a name like mydata.gdb (folder name). There are many, many files in > > that folder. The file containing gps data would be the g

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: ArcInfo gdb file system

2011-04-25 Thread Brad Nesom
to help clarify. The file geodatabase format for esri is a folder structure with a name like mydata.gdb (folder name). There are many, many files in that folder. The file containing gps data would be the garmin file. There are differences in the two files. Easily identifiable though because one is

[Qgis-user] update osgeo4w problem

2011-03-25 Thread Brad Nesom
I have been attempting to update my osgeo4w through the installer and thought it was a problem on my end. I have been watching now and noticed that it stops at the same place each time. The xerces-c-vc9-3.1.1-1.tar.bz2 seems to be the problem. Does anyone else have this problem through osgeo4w in

Re: Large shape files and databases. WAS: [Qgis-user] Very slow performance with large SHP files, with over 200k objects

2011-03-07 Thread Brad Nesom
http://workshops.opengeo.org/postgis-intro/creating_db.html very nice demo and documentation here. On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Matt Boyd wrote: > Hi Richard, > the postgis extensions to the Postgresql database work very well in my > experience. > > If you're using windows a google search wi

[Qgis-user] Grass Plugin

2011-01-28 Thread Brad Nesom
I have had this problem for all time on xp, osgeo4w. updating and new dev, nothing has fixed it. Now I find a page that says this env is not supposed to be used anymore. 1. Is this just my problem? 2. Does anyone know how to fix it? G_getenv(): Variable GISDBASE not set Grassbook chapter 11 says:

Re: [Qgis-user] qgis forum registration problem...

2011-01-16 Thread Brad Nesom
may be too obvious... check your junk email? On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 7:00 AM, alain wrote: > Hello! > > Some weeks ago, I tried to register to Qgis forum (http://forum.qgis.org/ > )... > I submit the first form, waiting for the activation mail, but never had > it... > > If I try to log on, I've

Re: [Qgis-user] problems with pdf

2011-01-14 Thread Brad Nesom
Very nice! On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:29 AM, MORREALE Jean Roc wrote: > GDAL 1.8.0 will be able to load geopdf, that's already a first step in that > direction > > Le 14/01/2011 16:27, Brad Nesom a écrit : >> >> my thought is... All geospatial software should utilize

Re: [Qgis-user] problems with pdf

2011-01-14 Thread Brad Nesom
my thought is... All geospatial software should utilize geo-pdf output. On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > On 01/12/2011 03:31 PM, Matthias Grotelüschen wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I save a qgis-project as a pdf. >> I open this pdf with Adobe Acrobat 9.2. >> After opening this data

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Newbie question - gml files

2011-01-04 Thread Brad Nesom
if these were all point files and especially there are no files with polygons involved, you could perhaps export to excel and modify then re-import from text. You would want to be sure to keep as many decimals as possible to maintain accuracy. On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Micha Silver wrote: >

[Qgis-user] Grass plugin problem

2010-12-06 Thread Brad Nesom
I have problems with the grass plugin. I can run grass (osgeo4w installation), and have set up the environment so that it starts. When I try to run the grass layer plugin from qgis (1.6 stable) I get an error that "G_getenv(): Variable GISDBASE not set. I have a path in my windows envir. for GISRC

[Qgis-user] ogr connections

2010-12-02 Thread Brad Nesom
Using osgeo4w 1.5, when I go to add vector layer and select file type, navigate to my esri pgdb. I get a not a valid or recognized data source. If I use the database type I get a page that defaults back to type odbc even though I just chose esri personal geodatabase in the previous dialog, it also

Re: [Qgis-user] overview in the composer

2010-11-22 Thread Brad Nesom
Actually in ESRI you can have (ver10) data driven pages, (9.3x) DSmap book, (AutoDesk Map) map books and sheet sets. Each allows to build a book indexed from a grid or alignment with specified data and elements at specified scales within the cells (selected, or all). All three software can also ha

Re: [Qgis-user] image vectorization

2010-11-15 Thread Brad Nesom
"and then go for vectorization." I have attempted the gdal polygonize (I really want lines) and the contour with no good results. Is r.thin the correct (or even an acceptable) direction to go for vectorization? If using classification in qgis what is created? another image to use for vectorization

Re: [Qgis-user] using manageR

2010-11-12 Thread Brad Nesom
I am running 2.11.1 on xp and it works in my 1.6 and 1.5 and manager 1.0 i think I remember a post about this fairly recently that explained how to get the updates. I will look a bit later and see if I can locate. On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Dr. F. Patrick Graz wrote: > Hi all, > I have tri

[Qgis-user] satellite band manipulation

2010-10-07 Thread Brad Nesom
I am interested in applying the theory described in the linked article to a satellite image. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.140.5218&rep=rep1&type=pdf My goal is to depict hot spots on the earth surface. My problem is I am not very mathematically inclined and I don't progr

[Qgis-user] postgis problem 1.5

2010-08-03 Thread Brad Nesom
Having a problem connecting to postgis. I get successful verification on the test connection but inval privileges when I use connect. However I just opened 1.6 and connected successully to the same ddataset. Anyone verify this? ___ Qgis-user mailing list

[Qgis-user] check Qgis version

2010-08-03 Thread Brad Nesom
version 1.6 r13999 In the check qgis version dialog under the help pulldown it says the following. The current released version of QGIS is 1.4.0 "Enceladus". The development version (1.5.0 AKA Trunk) contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements Details on changes can be found by examining the

Re: [Qgis-user] US Windfarm shapefile

2010-07-01 Thread Brad Nesom
Still no shape but here is buildout within a 48 nm radius of your lat lon. https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/gisTools/gisAction.jsp?action=showWtBuildOutToolForm On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Gerald Creager wrote: > Title pretty much says it all, although I'm especially interested in > Texas

[Qgis-user] mapfile plugin

2010-06-17 Thread Brad Nesom
I attempt to install the UMN mapfile tools ver 0.3 plugin and get an error that the plugin is broken. Is this for an older qgis version? I am running 1.5 ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-use