Re: [Qgis-user] Download paths from OpenStreetMap

2020-02-26 Thread Clifford Snow
It is possible to download paths from OpenStreetMap. The easiest way would be use use overpass-turbo.eu. Here is a sample query to load all paths in Montana. http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/R65. If the query is too large for overpass, the area can be split into smaller sections. Another option is to use

Re: [Qgis-user] Raster edge detection - Raster -> Vector

2019-09-25 Thread Clifford Snow
I don't know about QGIS, but OSM has a tool RapidID, developed by Facebook, that looks at imagery and digitizes roads. RapidID is a tool for mapping in OpenStreetMap. It shows missing roads. To use in New Zealand, you'll need to report an issue request New Zealand be added to the location. You can

Re: [Qgis-user] How to download and use layers from the website of the Maine Office of GIS

2019-05-20 Thread Clifford Snow
Ted, Can you provide a link to some of the data that QGIS doesn't recognize? On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 1:48 PM Ted Butler wrote: > 4 years ago, with an earlier version and an older laptop, I could load, > edit and print many layers at a time. Now, I can’t get wGIS to recognize > them. Please help

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS to load spefific OpenStreetMap data

2019-05-14 Thread Clifford Snow
Stefan, Let me make one suggestion to Jorge's overpass query. By using the Overpass-Turbo Wizard search for shop=bakery or shop=supermarket in Zurich. By adding in Zurich, the query will leave out objects in adjacent cities. >From the overpass turbo webpage, export the data as a geojson to load in

Re: [Qgis-user] Can't find Python

2018-11-01 Thread Clifford Snow
, 2018 at 6:29 PM Clifford Snow > wrote: > >> >> >> I did use your package but didn't install the python3-qgis. After I >> originally installed qgis, I went searching for a python qgis package but >> must have missed it. Shouldn't it be required by

Re: [Qgis-user] Can't find Python

2018-11-01 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 9:34 AM Daniele Viganò wrote: > Hi Clifford, > > how did you installed QGIS 3.4? Are you using my packages ( > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dani/qgis/)? > > Have you installed the 'python3-qgis' package? > > $ sudo dnf install qgis python3-qgis > > > Daniele, Tha

[Qgis-user] Can't find Python

2018-11-01 Thread Clifford Snow
I have a new Fedora 28 system with QGIS 3.4 that can't seem to find python. Both versions 2 and 3 of python are installed and being used by other applications. My guess is that I need to export a path variable for QGIS to find. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_se

Re: [Qgis-user] Question

2018-11-01 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:51 PM mayank agarwal wrote: > I was working on a detailed map development of a certain state (Andhra > Pradesh) > in India. This would be useful in disaster management and would be > accessible by all. > Openstreetmap does not provide detailed features of the place tha

Re: [Qgis-user] Question

2018-10-31 Thread Clifford Snow
I don't believe it's possible to get Google data. Which is one of the reasons for the success of OSM. For my curiosity, what Google data do you want that's not in OSM? Clifford On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:27 PM mayank agarwal wrote: > Hello, > > I want to import data from Google earth in form o

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 3.2.3 on MacOSX unstable, have to re-install

2018-09-28 Thread Clifford Snow
3.2.3 is working fine on my mac. The Mac is running High Sierra. I would recommend completely reinstalling it and all the dependencies as you suggested. Under QGIS 2.18 the setting were in the users home directory. I think your settings are kept in /Users/YourUserName/Library/Applications Support

Re: [Qgis-user] Selecting features from a spatial layer based on a list in an Excel file

2018-03-26 Thread Clifford Snow
If I understand your challenge, you want to join a spreadsheet with id to existing id in a spatial layer. If that is the case, there is a good article on Stackexchange should give you some tips how to accomplish it. https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/182281/how-to-join-data-from-excel-to-an-a

Re: [Qgis-user] How to get web map layers on QGIS 3 on Mac

2018-03-26 Thread Clifford Snow
Alan, Try opening your data first then bring in the xyz layer once QGIS knows the projection of your data. On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 7:00 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > OK zoom to layer shows what I am expecting. > > I am completely new to QGIS so it is all a bit of a mystery to me. > > Though I did have

Re: [Qgis-user] How to get web map layers on QGIS 3 on Mac

2018-03-25 Thread Clifford Snow
When you zoom to your layer, what appears? Is it possible that your layers projections is wrong? It's happened to me a number of times. On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 7:26 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > Yup it works - thanks > > But it is not showing my layer on top of the base layer - I don't see > my stuff

Re: [Qgis-user] How to get web map layers on QGIS 3 on Mac

2018-03-25 Thread Clifford Snow
Alan, Here is the resources page [1] from our local QGIS user group. Second from the bottom is Tile Server {XYZ} Basemap Import. If you open the python script link, the script will add all of the websites from the QGIS 2.0 quickmap plugin. It worked perfectly on my Mac. Clifford [1] http://psqgi

Re: [Qgis-user] Idea: Crowd-sourcing a batch-georeferencer plugin withQR code ?

2018-02-03 Thread Clifford Snow
Let me echo Brent Fraser suggestion to look at Field Papers, fieldpaper.org. They accomplish what you are looking for. Each page of the field paper has a QR code for georeferencing. Not only that they can be loaded in as a baselayer in OSM editors. The site fieldpapers.org has a simple walk through

[Qgis-user] Cool Features of QGIS

2017-12-05 Thread Clifford Snow
I'm doing a short presentation on Open Source GIS software this Friday. My audience are 99% arcgis users. I'd like to tell them about a couple WOW features in QGIS that ESRI doesn't provide or is just a pain to do. I have never used ArcGIS so I'm struggling. Any suggestions would be most appreciat

Re: [Qgis-user] Anybody knows how to download OSM Turn Restrictions?

2017-08-30 Thread Clifford Snow
Overpass can grab turn restrictions. Read the wiki[1] for information on how turn restrictions are tagged. For example, this query [1] grabs all turn restrictions in my county. Once the query has run download a geojson for loading into QGIS [out:json][timeout:25]; // fetch area “skagit county” to

[Qgis-user] Slack Channel

2016-10-26 Thread Clifford Snow
I noticed a QGIS Slack [1] channel. Does anyone know how to get an invite? Thanks Clifford [1] qgis.slack.com -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List i

Re: [Qgis-user] How to "clip" a county shape file

2016-10-03 Thread Clifford Snow
Emily, You should be able to filter your data by county. Once the filter is in place you could look at attribute data to see all the data. Can you tell us what you are trying to accomplish so we can help with a better answer? Clifford On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Emily Saunders wrote: > To

Re: [Qgis-user] Raster Conversion Missing in Mac OSX 2.14.3

2016-08-26 Thread Clifford Snow
erences, or open the Gdal Tools Settings and delete all > the Gdal paths, then restart QGIS. > > > On Aug 24, 2016, at 2:51 PM, Clifford Snow > wrote: > > > > Agustin, > > Thanks for the screen shots. Mine is the same except that I'm running > 1.11.4 version

Re: [Qgis-user] Raster Conversion Missing in Mac OSX 2.14.3

2016-08-24 Thread Clifford Snow
Agustin, Thanks for the screen shots. Mine is the same except that I'm running 1.11.4 version of OGR. There doesn't seem to be any settings option that would cause some of the raster options to be missing. I feel like I'm missing something obvious. Thanks for the help. I may just reinstall. --

[Qgis-user] Raster Conversion Missing in Mac OSX 2.14.3

2016-08-23 Thread Clifford Snow
On linux, running Fedora 24, QGIS version 2.14.3 has a Raster->Conversion menu option, yet the same version on a Mac the conversion option is missing. The plugins seem to be similar. Does anyone have a suggestion of how I enable the feature? I'm looking for the polygonize (raster to vector) tool.

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Server

2016-02-24 Thread Clifford Snow
gt; The server is running on: > http://sigum.di.uminho.pt/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi > > The client is avilable at: > http://sigum.di.uminho.pt > > I hope it helps. > > Regards, > > J. Gustavo > > > > Às 00:44 de 20-02-2016, Clifford Snow escreveu: > >&g

Re: [Qgis-user] GPS tracking for long distance hike

2016-02-20 Thread Clifford Snow
I use a garmin eTrex20. 600km is a long way. I would suggest bring along extra AA batteries. The garmin takes 2 AA batteries. The OpenStreetMap wiki [1] has a lot of information on tracking devices. You may be able to find a device better suited to your needs there. Clifford [1] https://wiki.ope

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Server

2016-02-19 Thread Clifford Snow
G_DIR}/qgis-web-client-access.log combined On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:35 PM, Luca Manganelli wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 8:08 AM, Clifford Snow > wrote: > > Now I'm getting a .cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi was not found > > Where is your qgis_mapserv.fcgi loca

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS Server

2016-02-18 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Luca Manganelli wrote: > Try to remove the FcgidIOTimeout row in your configuration file. with the timeout removed, the error moved to the next line. using a2enmod fgcid solved the timeout error. Now I'm getting a .cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi was not found

[Qgis-user] QGIS Server

2016-02-18 Thread Clifford Snow
I'm trying to get the server running on a ubuntu machine. Apache2 works fine, but when following the steps to configure the QGIS Server [1] apache complains "The apache2 configtest failed." The error is Invalid command FcgidIOTimeout. It appears that libapache2-mod-fcgid isn't installed, but I ver

Re: [Qgis-user] ARCGIS Geodatabase import

2016-02-08 Thread Clifford Snow
QGIS should be able to open FileGDB. When opening the vector file, select "directory" instead of file. You will be prompted to select which layers you want to add. To verify if your gdal is capable of opening FileGDB, you can run "ogrinfo --formats" to get a list of supported formats. Clifford O

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS big fail in deleting Shapes!!

2016-01-19 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Saber Razmjooei < saber.razmjo...@lutraconsulting.co.uk> wrote: > In general, QGIS and other GIS/non-GIS proprietary software come with > bugs. The reason developers haven’t fixed this bug and other bugs is due to > lack of resources (time, money). Proprietary so

Re: [Qgis-user] best way to download Large datasets from OSM

2016-01-14 Thread Clifford Snow
I just found this [1] morning. Looks like a good way to get started. I does require installing PostGIS. The instructions are for Linux but Boundless geo has installation pages for OS X and Windows. I have no experience on Windows. The advantage of using a database back end is being able to run quer

Re: [Qgis-user] Projections Not Recognized

2015-11-15 Thread Clifford Snow
eters to match. > > Thanks, > Alex > > On 11/15/2015 02:43 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > > Alex, > > You got me thinking that I have the wrong projection. epsg.io lead me to > > 2926 and 2927. > > > > However, both of those are in the QGIS. Assuming that QGIS us

Re: [Qgis-user] Projections Not Recognized

2015-11-15 Thread Clifford Snow
new, like me, it helps knowing the projections. Thanks, Clifford On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Alex Mandel > wrote: > >> http://epsg.io/102348 > > > I didn't catch the HARN. And the 10348 and 10349 a

Re: [Qgis-user] Projections Not Recognized

2015-11-15 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > http://epsg.io/102348 I didn't catch the HARN. And the 10348 and 10349 are both in meters. I'm getting NAD83_HARN in feet which doesn't match the definition of 10349. And 10749 is in feet but not with HARN. So maybe it isn't in the table.

[Qgis-user] Projections Not Recognized

2015-11-15 Thread Clifford Snow
Local governmental agencies in Washington State use the projection, Washington State Plane North and State Plane South. I believe they are ESRI: 102748 and 107349. When opened in QGIS they appear as USER:11. These reference systems are included in the list (srs.db). I'm wondering why QGIS doesn

Re: [Qgis-user] Adding postgis views to qgis

2015-10-20 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Piotr Kania wrote: > In my postgis database I have multipolygon layer 'public.polygons' > (gid,geom), I'd like to see vertices of those layer during editing, that's > why I thought of postgis view. I create that in database: > > CREATE VIEW points_of_polygons AS S

Re: [Qgis-user] How to display SID raster on QGIS 2.10 PISA Kubuntu 15.04 ?

2015-08-20 Thread Clifford Snow
Last night at a cugos.org meeting, I learned how to compile GDAL with MrSID capabilities. The system he used as a chromebook. You can find the instructions in the link below. I believe that QGIS uses your system's GDAL installation for most of its operations. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26

Re: [Qgis-user] database Mexico

2015-07-17 Thread Clifford Snow
Have you looked into OSM data? You can get a Mexico Planet file from http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america.html. It is only 88Mb. If you wanted to look at connections to cities in the US, you could pull the border states individually. I can't remember if QGIS will read PBF format files, but sh

Re: [Qgis-user] Export .shp file to .osm file format

2015-07-07 Thread Clifford Snow
The ogr2osm python script works great for converting shapefiles to .osm files. I use the one found at https://github.com/pnorman/ogr2osm. ogr2osm allows you to create a translation script to convert shapefile features to osm tags. The github repository includes examples of the translation tables.

[Qgis-user] New QGIS User Group

2015-06-12 Thread Clifford Snow
27;ve never used QGIS before or you're a seasoned user or developer. Join our Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/Puget-Sound-QGIS-Users-Group/> [1] to learn about upcoming meetings. Clifford Snow [1] http://www.meetup.com/Puget-Sound-QGIS-Users-Group/ -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.

Re: [Qgis-user] OSM data gaps

2015-05-08 Thread Clifford Snow
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:55 PM, JOE LEMONNIER wrote: > I've download the OSM data from Vector>open street map> download data. > Then imported the topology from xml then exported to Spatialite specifying > poly lines. When do this for the span of lower Manhattan in New York City, > I get a beautif

Re: [Qgis-user] OSM download error

2015-04-22 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Simon Lange wrote: > It has been discussed several times, yet, I cannot figure out how to > download open street maps layer for the sake of using the features (roads, > parks etc.). instead, after choosing one of the three options (loading from > canvas, manual...

Re: [Qgis-user] US Tiger files

2015-01-04 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Chuck Young wrote: > Hello. I am working with some Tiger files from the US Census. I have > several files which contain road data, water, etc. There are also Address > files but these contain no .prj files. I would like to know what I need to > do to get this

Re: [Qgis-user] using QGIS with Java 7?

2014-10-15 Thread Clifford Snow
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Richard Welty wrote: > i am now setting up on a freshly built Macbook Air running 10.9.5 and > the QGIS installer is insisting on Java 6; i have Oracle's Java 7 installed > and have no particular interest in adding the older SDK to this system. > is there any part

[Qgis-user] Georeferencer create wld instead of tfw

2014-09-24 Thread Clifford Snow
I'm curious why the georeferencer creates a wld world file instead of a tfw. Reading other sites, appending a w on to the raster filename seems to be the standard convention. I just created my first georeferenced tif. I missed the wld world file and thought I'd had done something wrong. Now that I

Re: [Qgis-user] OpenLayers available in 2.4?

2014-07-25 Thread Clifford Snow
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Chrest, David wrote: > I have seen a few messages regarding the availability of the popular (my > favorite) OpenLayers plugin in 2.4. Is this available for use in 2.4? Is it > already installed with 2.4 or do users have to install it separately? What > is the curr

Re: [Qgis-user] OpenLayers plugin QGIS 2.4

2014-06-29 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Claas Leiner wrote: > There is no way to install the OpenLayers-Plugin in QGIS 2.4.? > That would be bad for this very successful new version. > I believe that OpenLayers is included by default in 2.4. Make sure that all of the dependencies are met otherwise you

Re: [Qgis-user] Problem to download data from "OpenStreetMap"

2014-05-30 Thread Clifford Snow
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Caroline Kwan wrote: > As per QGIS 2.2 user guide, I can download data from "Opensteetmap" when > connecting with OSM server, how could I connect with the server?. Would > you please give me a hand? I've been using QGIS for the past couple of years so not much

Re: [Qgis-user] Importing open street map .osm files

2014-05-27 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Andre Joost wrote: > This is only useful with QGIS for the smaller areas. The larger files > should be filled directly into a Postgis database with osm2pgsql. > > Another choice is to use GDAL to populate a spatialite db outside of QGIS, > or use Add vector layer i

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 wrote: > Selon 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 A

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 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 on > their end (no lo

Re: [Qgis-user] offline address geocoding

2014-01-05 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:28 PM, David Hiers wrote: > As you know, its all about location. After the quake/tsunami flattens the > pacific northwest, we'll be flooded with damage reports, support requests, > pop-up shelter locations, etc, all of which will probably be expressed in > terms of street

Re: [Qgis-user] offline address geocoding

2014-01-05 Thread Clifford Snow
David, I'm a volunteer contributor to OpenStreetMap. A few of us are working to import addresses into OSM. (Although not all countries have addresses.) I had not considered addresses useful for disaster preparedness. Can you help me understand how address help? Thanks, Clifford On Sun, Jan 5, 20