[Qgis-user] Retirement & Future QGIS Support Options

2024-05-28 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
Hi Everyone, In a month I will be retiring from US federal government service. For the last few years my efforts were on promoting open source GIS software for government use. I've had some success but wish it would have been easier. I am the author of 12 official QGIS plugins,

Re: [Qgis-user] Advance Digitising Tools- compass bearings

2024-05-17 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
Phil, The Shape Tools plugin has an "Azimuth distance digitizer" and for what you are talking about an "Azimuth distance sequence digitizer". With the latter function you click on a starting location and then give a list of azimuth, distance sequences. I have used this for old surveys like this.

Re: [Qgis-user] Kmz rendering very slow

2024-02-23 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
Agreed. Google Earth simply cannot handle large amounts of data. Calvin On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 8:38 AM Kobben, Barend (UT-ITC) via QGIS-User < qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Not really. KMZ/KML is a simple dataformat not suitable for such large > amounts of data. It eg does not support

[Qgis-user] Vector layer WKT attribute to new layers

2024-02-21 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
I came across a point vector layer that had a WKT object as one of the attributes. The WKT object could be a point, line, polygon, multi-point, multi-line, or multi-polygon and there could be a mixture of these in the same vector layer. I added an algorithm to the Lat Lon Tools plugin that

Re: [Qgis-user] Distance measurement from Center - Buffer

2024-02-13 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
You can always use the Shape Tools plugins to draw a circle around the points. It uses Geodesic calculations so you don't need to convert to another projection. Calvin On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 9:31 PM krishna Ayyala via QGIS-User < qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Chris, > Thanks for the

Re: [Qgis-user] Should my QGIS 2 Plugins be removed from plugins.qgis.org?

2024-01-29 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
I'm surprised that QGIS 2 is still being used. In that case I will leave my QGIS 2 plugins in the repo. Calvin On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 12:41 PM Andrea Giudiceandrea via QGIS-User < qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > > Greg Troxel gdt at lexort.com > > Fri Jan 26 07:21:47 PST 2024 > > > It will

Re: [Qgis-user] Should my QGIS 2 Plugins be removed from plugins.qgis.org?

2024-01-26 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
I don't know about that question for sure, but I suspect that if they were not ported to QGIS 3 then they are not likely being used. Some plugins became deprecated because QGIS 3 integrated their capabilities into its core algorithms. In my case I ported all my QGIS 2 plugins to QGIS 3. On Fri,

[Qgis-user] Should my QGIS 2 Plugins be removed from plugins.qgis.org?

2024-01-26 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
I am wondering whether it is time to remove my QGIS 2 plugins from plugins.qgis.org. It seems like everyone should be using QGIS 3 now and if they are not, they should be. What are your thoughts? All of my QGIS 2 plugins are much less capable than my version 3 plugins. Thanks, Calvin

[Qgis-user] New Shape Tools Processing Algorithms

2023-10-16 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
I added two new Shape Tools (https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/shapetools/) processing algorithms. Shape Tools has a number of geodesic shapes that can be generated from a point vector layer using parameters from the processing dialog box or from the vector layer's attribute table. What Shape Tools

[Qgis-user] Earth, Sun, Moon, and Planets Field Calculator Expressions

2023-09-08 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
I updated the Earth, Sun, Moon, and Planets plugin to include some field calculator expressions. If there are other expressions that you think should be made available, let me know. https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/earthsunmoon/ Note that you need to "pip install timezonefinder skyfield"

[Qgis-user] New Day/Night Terminator Algorithm

2023-08-29 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
I released a new "Day/Night terminator" algorithm as a part of the "Earth, Sun, Moon, & Planets" plugin. I was able to get some help to implement the algorithm that does the work. https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/earthsunmoon/ The new algorithm creates vector layers for the day/night terminator

Re: [Qgis-user] Dot Density Symbology

2023-07-27 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
This may not be an answer to your question, but the Density Analysis plugin (https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/densityanalysis/) will create a uniform set of polygons over an area of interest with a NUMPOINTS attribute of the number of points are contained within the polygon. The NUMPOINTS value

[Qgis-user] New Earth, Sun, Moon, Planets QGIS Plugin

2023-04-26 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
I developed most of this plugin some time ago, but have never liked publishing a plugin that was not self contained meaning that it has no depancies on other Python libraries not supplied by QGIS or data too large to include. Meet the Earth, Sun, Moon, and Planets plugin. For a particular date &

[Qgis-user] New Date/Time Tools Plugin Update

2023-04-24 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
I updated the Date/Time Tools plugin. https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/datetimetools/ The functionality is the same, but I needed to update the timezonefinder python library. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you see it, because of changes in the library, it is no longer practical to

[Qgis-user] Jobs supporting QGIS

2023-03-27 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
Hi Everyone, Since 2016 I have been supporting QGIS within the US Federal Government. You can see my QGIS plugin contributions here: https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/author/C%20Hamilton/ Unfortunately, I have been told to quit further QGIS development by my current organization and I have a

[Qgis-user] Shape Tools New Capabilities - Compass cardinal directions

2023-03-10 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
I thought I would highlight a couple of updates to the Shape Tools plugin. For those who are not aware, Shape Tools has a measuring tool that not only includes the distance from point A to B, but also displays the azimuth from A to B and from B to A. It shows each segment with these features and

[Qgis-user] What QGIS plugin development should I work on this year?

2023-01-26 Thread C Hamilton via QGIS-User
Hi QGIS users, I am looking for ideas for what QGIS development I should be working on this year. My plugin development over the years has focused on capabilities that were missing at the time or algorithms that made QGIS user's lives easier. Here are the plugins I've developed so far.

Re: [Qgis-user] Coordinate display in different coordinate systems

2022-10-28 Thread C Hamilton via Qgis-user
The Lat Lon Tools plugin has a coordinate display dialog where you click on a point and it displays it in many different coordinate systems. On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 9:30 AM Tanja Hartinger via Qgis-user < qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > Hello > I have a question about the coordinate display.

[Qgis-user] Proper Way to Unload A Toolbar

2022-10-25 Thread C Hamilton via Qgis-user
I see several ways developers have created custom toolbars and then removed them and I am wondering if there is a preferred way. In the initGui of the plugin we would have something like this: self.toolbar = self.iface.addToolBar('My Toolbar')

[Qgis-user] Lat Lon Tools Gets New Capabilities

2022-09-27 Thread C Hamilton via Qgis-user
Yesterday, Lat Lon Tools was updated to version 3.6.5 ( https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/latlontools/). This release includes the following: 1. Lat Lon Tools can now snapshot H3 geohash coordinates and zoom to H3 coordinates. H3 is a fantastic library that I have started working with, but you

Re: [Qgis-user] Jenks Raster Styling?

2022-09-15 Thread C Hamilton via Qgis-user
Andrea, Thanks for your response and glad to see someone else interested in this. I was asked about how difficult it would be to implement as a plugin, but I think it would be best as a core capability. Like always there needs to be a funding source. I reached out to some of my colleagues to see

[Qgis-user] Jenks Raster Styling?

2022-09-14 Thread C Hamilton via Qgis-user
With Graduated vector symbology there are various modes such as Equal Count, Equal Interval, Logarithmic scale ,Natural Breaks (Jenks), Pretty Breaks, and Standard Deviation to apply the graduated style to the vector data. With raster styling there are only "Interpolation" options Discrete,

[Qgis-user] More QGIS Density Analysis Updates and Some Time Comparisons

2022-08-18 Thread C Hamilton via Qgis-user
Anyone dealing with heatmaps or density estimation will be interested in this plugin. https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/densityanalysis/ QGIS natively has the Heatmap (Kernel Density Estimation) algorithm which is powerful and produces a heatmap image that can then be styled and displayed. Each

Re: [Qgis-user] Shapefile to KML conversion

2022-07-09 Thread C Hamilton via Qgis-user
Creating a KML that large is usually not a good idea, but if you still want to try it install the KML Tools plugin. It can usually handle larger data sets. Best wishes, Calvin > On Jul 9, 2022, at 6:19 PM, krishna Ayyala via Qgis-user > wrote: > > Hello, > I have a shapefile of size 5GB. I

[Qgis-user] QGIS Density Analysis Plugin Update

2022-06-27 Thread C Hamilton via Qgis-user
I recently released the Density Analysis plugin and today I had a new update that provides a polygon raster density analysis algorithm along with a processing algorithm to style the raster with a heatmap. https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/densityanalysis/ I have a very narrow window in which I

Re: [Qgis-user] PyQGIS code on raster image - What am I doing wrong?

2022-06-23 Thread C Hamilton via Qgis-user
Andrea, Thanks so much. I'm not sure I would have figured that out on my own. I also found that I needed to include the min and max values from the statistics. Here is my final code if anyone else is trying to do this. layer = iface.activeLayer() provider = layer.dataProvider() stats =

[Qgis-user] PyQGIS code on raster image - What am I doing wrong?

2022-06-22 Thread C Hamilton via Qgis-user
I am trying to automatically style a singlebandgray raster image with one of the singlebandpseudocolor color ramps. When I run this code in the QGIS Python console the raster image disappears. If I look at the image "Properties" everything seems to be set correctly and it does appear when Apply or

[Qgis-user] New Density Analyses Plugin

2022-06-16 Thread C Hamilton via Qgis-user
I want to share a new vector based density analysis plugin sooner rather than later. My work priorities are being rearranged so that I will not be able to do new development or new features, but only fix bugs if they arise. Here is the new plugin. Please test it out and give me any feedback. I

Re: [Qgis-user] visualize and export coordinates of centroids

2022-05-24 Thread C Hamilton via Qgis-user
Once you have your centroids you can use the Lat Lon Tools plugin and run the "Point Layer to Fields" algorithm to extract the geometry and add it to one or two attribute fields. You can also specify the CRS that you want it in and what format (ie. decimal degrees, DMS and a lot of other formats)

Re: [Qgis-user] Change properties of multiple layer at once

2022-04-04 Thread C Hamilton via Qgis-user
I have been working on a plugin and as a part of its capabilities is to be able to use a .qml file or the style on the clipboard to apply it to all selected layers including groups of layers. It would be a very similar process to adjust the opacity or stroke style. On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 6:04 AM