Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS.org new website now online

Tim Sutton via QGIS-User writes: > 拾 The new website is now online! Visit https://qgis.org to try it out. We > have spent a *lot* of time trying to QA things but undoubtedly there will > still be some *gremlins* in the works. Please file issues here >

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 3.38 for MAC Intel downloads as 3.36.3

Garth Fletcher via QGIS-User writes: > It would be very helpful if the Mac download file names included the > version info. > For example: >  "qgis-macos_3_34_7-ltr.dmg"   instead of just "qgis-macos-ltr.dmg" I'll second this, and say that a filename with varying contents is bad practice and

[Qgis-user] trip report from recent toot about plugin blog page

Recently I saw a toot announcing a blog post about new/updated plugins. This is comments about my experience from that, hoping it is helpful. 1) It's great there was a toot (mastodon) instead of on some centralized site where you have to agree to surveillance to be allowed to see it. 2) It

Re: [Qgis-user] problem when opening projects in open instance

Garth Fletcher via QGIS-User writes: > Just ran into same problem. > I created 2 separate .qgz projects using QGIS 3.34.7 under Mac OSX 10.13.6 > > I transferred the qgz files to a Windows installation of QGIS 3.34.7 > and only one would open. > The other resulted in the "Unable to unzip

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

Philip Ryan via QGIS-User writes: > Hello, > I am trying to digitise a series of old gold lease "portion plans" > produced in the 1880s in Australia by a mining surveyor using a > compass and chain. The data for each gold lease includes a table of 1) > compass bearings in degrees and 2) distance

Re: [Qgis-user] Vermont Coordinate System

Well, I learn something new every day! https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2024/Docs/ACTS/ACT086/ACT086%20As%20Enacted.pdf But it does look like adopting the SPCS, at first glance. ___ QGIS-User mailing list QGIS-User@lists.osgeo.org List info:

Re: [Qgis-user] Vermont Coordinate System

Chris Olson via QGIS-User writes: > Is it possible to have the Vermont Coordinate System (VCS) used by QGIS? I'm in MA and have never heard of it. Feel free to send a reference to it, here or offlist. This might be a state plane coordinate system. But it might not be.

Re: [Qgis-user] How to connect qfield to GPS RTK

david cebrian via QGIS-User writes: > I have read the qfield documentation but I still don't know how to > connect my RTK to qfield in order to do a topographic survey. I am > using android and the latest version of qfield. QField has a settings page for positioning and you can add sources. It

Re: [Qgis-user] Announce - migrate our mailing lists to Discourse

Tony Bazeley via QGIS-User writes: > I'm not against new communication channels, but imagine the maximum benefit > would be obtained by adding a discourse channel while keeping the mailing > list > channel, and perhaps reviewing use after a period of time. That's a great point, and I should

Re: [Qgis-user] Announce - migrate our mailing lists to Discourse

What I meant mostly is two things: People like me tend not to be happy about things turning into forums and are likely to participate less. As an example, openstreetmap moved from mailinglists to forums and I have not, so I interract far far less and spend more time on other things. I

Re: [Qgis-user] Announce - migrate our mailing lists to Discourse

Régis Haubourg via QGIS-User writes: > With this move, we hope that we can counter the current fragmentation > and streamline our discussions. Please fell free to react. I'm unhappy about this, as I suspect are others who have been in the Free Software world a long time. I expect that this

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

C Hamilton via QGIS-User writes: > 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

Re: [Qgis-user] Migrating QGIS User mailing list to OSGeo Discourse, yes or no?

Alexandre Neto via QGIS-User writes: > Seems that OsGeo is providing a Discourse instance. Discourse seems to > be something that can work both as a mailing list and a forum. The Yes, osgeo has set up discourse, but from lurking I would not describe it as having passed acceptance testing. My

Re: [Qgis-user] International/Local Labeled World Basemap in QGIS. Protomaps?

Richard Duivenvoorde writes: > On 10/24/23 13:40, Greg Troxel via QGIS-User wrote: >> I am not sure how I feel about "range requests are the right answer" vs >> tiles, as from a CS viewpoint it seems to be the same thing and it feels >> a little like "you

Re: [Qgis-user] International/Local Labeled World Basemap in QGIS. Protomaps?

Richard Duivenvoorde writes: >>I am unclear on how we are dealing with the required OSM attribution >>in qgis. I have added OSM tiles with quickosm, and the main map view >>lacks attribution. I did publish a pdf map of local conservation, and >>I was careful in the map composer

Re: [Qgis-user] International/Local Labeled World Basemap in QGIS. Protomaps?

Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-User writes: > Looking at Protomaps [0], and see that it's tools are OpenSource, data > from OSM data, and you should be able to host a 110Gb file via CDN as > basemap. Two more thoughts: I, and I suspect many others, often want basemaps for a much more

Re: [Qgis-user] International/Local Labeled World Basemap in QGIS. Protomaps?

Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-User writes: > Looking at Protomaps [0], and see that it's tools are OpenSource, data > from OSM data, and you should be able to host a 110Gb file via CDN as > basemap. I have been hearing about this and due to excitement inertia I am still in the stage of finding

Re: [Qgis-user] Qgis & photos (google street view) : Downloading photos and use its for atlas?

celati Laurent via QGIS-User writes: > I would therefore like to be able to add map items dedicated to Google > streetview photos to this atlas. Do you know what ways there are to first > save/download Google StreetView photos? Will the uploaded photos be > geotagged/geocoded? Then, the idea

Re: [Qgis-user] Data Privacy

Toby Clemett via QGIS-User writes: > If a company or organisation decided to open locally stored sensitive > location data within Vanilla QGIS, would the information stay on the > user's hard drive and not be shared with QGIS or anyone else > externally? If you configure an online tiled map

[Qgis-user] redesign of qgis web site

I saw on mastodon something about web site redesign. One aspect of the current site that is very good is limited third-party resources, and no apparent tracking. There are images loaded from live.staticflickr.com, and it would be nice to avoid that. In my experience redesigns often involve

Re: [Qgis-user] Georeference DSM files in QGIS Using Georeferencer

Richard McDonnell via QGIS-User writes: > It appears that, when you georeference an image which already contains > reference information it in effect applies a shift to the outputs. > One solution might be one of the options suggested >

Re: [Qgis-user] Georeference DSM files in QGIS Using Georeferencer

Mark C Quilter via QGIS-User writes: > We flew the same site last month and produced orthomosaic, point cloud, and > DSM. However, we were not able to put out ground control so we needed to > rectify the images in QGIS so they would align with the 20213 imagery and > models. We were able to

Re: [Qgis-user] Installing on MacOS

Garth Fletcher via QGIS-User writes: > If you could upgrade to OS X 10.13 (High Sierra) then you could run > QGIS 3.30. generaly people upgrade as far as they can, but I agree that 10.12 is odd, vs 10.11 or 10.13, both of which are terminal on various hardware, due to apple deciding that old

Re: [Qgis-user] Sicherheitslücke [ CVE-2023-36664 ] Ghostscript in Qgis?

Ronny Kerlin via QGIS-User writes: > We have an important question regarding a recent vulnerability [ > CVE-2023-36664 ] affecting Ghostscript > > There are also corresponding GS libraries in #QGIS 3.28.4. qgis is source code. I just looked quickly, and did not find any ghostscript. In the

Re: [Qgis-user] Z and Elevation

Manolo Terranova writes: > EPSG 32632 The zip had a shapefile tagged as 32632, with (per ogrinfo): Name: String (16.0) Code: String (60.0) Northing: Real (18.5) Easting: Real (18.5) Elevation: Real (18.5) OGRFeature(Ponti):0 Name (String) = cs004 Code (String) = pn

Re: [Qgis-user] Z and Elevation

Sebastian Gutwein via QGIS-User writes: > Manolo, > You may already know this and be asking a deeper question that I am not > understanding but in case you are not: > The Z is the value derived from the geometry itself that QGIS uses to draw > the location of the point. > The Elevation is an

[Qgis-user] pegged CPU and vast RAM usage saving Layer Definition File

I am using qgis 3.28.7, built under pkgsrc on NetBSD 9 amd64. Generally things work well, aside from this problem. My machine has 24 GB of RAM. For plugins I have QField, geoscience, Lat Lon Tools, CoGo, DB Manager, Numeric Digitize, Quick Map Services, Quick OSM, SLYR CE. None of that seems

Re: [Qgis-user] Technical specifications

Sébastien LAGARDE via QGIS-User writes: Keep in mind that I have not used QGIS in a super serious way, and haven't even tried to figure out how much resources it needs, other that on my desktop (a hand-me-down machine that was high end in 2014, with 24 GB RAM), it runs fine. There's a huge

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use

Mike Flannigan writes: > What is ITAR?  When I look up ITAR I get: > International Traffic in Arms Regulations > > Ah, I see that is it: > > "ITAR rules is a precondition of receiving controlled > goods and technologies from a U.S. company." > > We are running into that with a project I am

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use.

jhubbslist--- via QGIS-User writes: > I made a decision a long time ago to stick with QGIS and other Open > Source software for GIS purposes because my access to ESRI products > depends on an employer's or client's paying for it; if I no longer > have that employer or client, I'll lose that

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use.

Simon via QGIS-User writes: > Now, a large portion of the information regarding the buildings and > their locations is confidential, and so I'm wondering if the > geodatabase and layer that I plan to create will be safe and > protected, or if other users will have access to them since QGIS is >

Re: [Qgis-user] How can I change the projection center

JOE LEMONNIER via QGIS-User writes: > Is there a simple way to change the projection center from the prime > meridian? On checking the web, I see posts from three years ago > suggesting awkward workarounds. Is there a simple way? Your question presupposes a lot and leaves out the details and is

Re: [Qgis-user] Geopackage slow on NAS if not read-only

Neil B via QGIS-User writes: > When you open a GPKG, meaning you are accessing data from the file, the > -wal file and its partner the -shm file are created in the same directory > as the GPKG file. The WAL file is created to implement atomic commit and > rollback. At the file system level, if

Re: [Qgis-user] Problems with transformation including height values

Bo Victor Thomsen via QGIS-User writes: > Hi list - > > I have a problem with transforming a csv file containing x,y /and /z > values from EPSG:4326 to EPSG:7416, i.e I want to transform the height > value from LongLat/ WGS84 ellipsoid height to UTM32/Etrs89 with > vertical reference DVR90.

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

Great place to ask IMHO. These is a combination of a suggestion and a fish for an answer that tells me no work is needed. I don't know how widespread the audience is relative to your standards. 1) Consider someone with a local coordinate system establish with a total station or similar

Re: [Qgis-user] importing GeoPDF

JOE LEMONNIER via QGIS-User writes: > Is there a way or a plugin that allows me to import GeoPDF file such > as USGS topos into QGIS as vectors? I’m using version 3.22.6 and > trying to import with Layer>AddLayer>Add Vector Layer, but it gives a > message “ Invalid Data…" (Given that there is

Re: [Qgis-user] importing GeoPDF

JOE LEMONNIER via QGIS-User writes: > Is there a way or a plugin that allows me to import GeoPDF file such > as USGS topos into QGIS as vectors? I’m using version 3.22.6 and > trying to import with Layer>AddLayer>Add Vector Layer, but it gives a > message “ Invalid Data…" > Thanks in advance,

Re: [Qgis-user] Generate XYZ Tiles in QGIS from OSM? Broken?

Richard Duivenvoorde via Qgis-user writes: > I tried to create a small off line version of OSM for a municipality from a > OpenStreetMap xyz layer. > More or less like this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWGkW0_DrHo Do you mean "bulk download tiles"? If so, your client may be blocked

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS and geopackages in sharepoint environement

Guido Häfliger via Qgis-user writes: > We are discussing in our company to switch from local fileserver/NAS > to Sharepoint (hosted in cloud). Will QGIS-projects and geopackages > work on sharepoint environment or do we have to expect a lot of > troubles? Have anybody experience with QGIS and

Re: [Qgis-user] excessive threads?

"Johannes Kröger (WhereGroup) via Qgis-user" writes: > Am 31.07.22 um 18:11 schrieb Mike Stanton via Qgis-user: >> >> It all depends on the module you are running and whether it >> effectively uses the “-multi” option with “all_available_cores” and >> of course how many cores are available on

Re: [Qgis-user] excessive threads?

I do understand that threads could help parallelization, eitehr using multiple cores, or just allowing IO in parallel. chris hermansen writes: > Does it seem like you have one thread per layer for reading plus one for > rendering plus one for user input? I don't know how many layers I have

[Qgis-user] excessive threads?

(I realize excessive is relative. Back when I was young, we didn't have any threads at all) My desktop is NetBSD 9, I ran out of threads, and found that qgis 3.22.8 was using 157 threads, much more than I expected. Yes, I know 157 is not a super large number, and that the limit of 1024

Re: [Qgis-user] SOLVED: Offline background map for large regions

Andreas via Qgis-user writes: > I will stick with the 180 GB spatialite db (though being a little > unhappy with the size), but applying a redy-to-go osm style I found on > the net reduced the details of the lower scales, so it stays useable > when staying there. The style has only 3 zoom

Re: [Qgis-user] Replay GPS data

Brent Wood via Qgis-user writes: > I have a log file of GPS NMEA messages captured during a survey. > > I'm working with QGIS for real time data capture during these surveys. > > For demo/training/dev purposes I'd like to pass the file of GPS messages into > QGIS via teh GPS panel to simulate

Re: [Qgis-user] Offline background map for large regions

Andreas via Qgis-user writes: > Currently I have an older core i7 with 8 GB RAM running QGIS Desktop > 3.10 on Linux Mint 20.3, which I know is already obsolete but it's in > the repositories of this most recent Linux Mint LTS version, and I need > a stable system that does not break due to a

Re: [Qgis-user] Dimensioning in QGIS

IainS via Qgis-user writes: > Is there a tool for adding dimensions in QGIS. For those who are wondering > what I am talking about, it is common in CAD drafting to add dimensions to > what you have drawn and this is a whole part of a CAD program where you can > format dimensions .etc. > > I

Re: [Qgis-user] [QGIS-Developer] Use of NE(SW) in the showing of (ordered) coordinates within QGIS

Richard Duivenvoorde writes: > I think we should never copy the characters, only numbers ( well, > except when using W/S/E/N :-) ).. Having thought a bit more this seems very tricky. > I also understood from somebody that when using latlon coordinates the > minus sign is actually redundant,

Re: [Qgis-user] [QGIS-Developer] Use of NE(SW) in the showing of (ordered) coordinates within QGIS

Richard Duivenvoorde via QGIS-Developer writes: > In 3.24 you will see something like "WGS84 5.2 52,3" > While in master it shows: "WGS84 52.3N 5.2E" (note the N and E) > > For WGS84 I think this is normal (to show WSEN), but for other crs's I > think it is overkill? > > In 3.24: "EPSG:28992

Re: [Qgis-user] Help with scales in print layouts for geographic CRS

A further suggestion, which may be too much. UTM, and the various LCC used in the US at State Plane Coordinate Systems, have x/y coordinates that are nominally in meters (well, the older ones used ft or ftUS). Central meridian or standard parallel scale factors are chosen to make distance

Re: [Qgis-user] Help with scales in print layouts for geographic CRS

Nyall Dawson writes: > I've been thinking about introducing a new warning when exporting > layouts, which would look something like this: > > 1. For each scale bar, look at the referenced map > 2. Measure the scale using multiple lines, each across the > top/middle/bottom horizontally and

Re: [Qgis-user] Help with scales in print layouts for geographic CRS

Nyall Dawson writes: > In all cases (projected OR geographic) the scalebar logic is: > > 1. Create a horizontal line across the width of the layout map > 2. Calculate the length of that line using great circle/ellipsoidal > calculations, based on the project's ellipsoid settings. > 3. Compare

Re: [Qgis-user] Help with scales in print layouts for geographic CRS

Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user writes: > On 6/04/22 11:34, Greg Troxel via Qgis-user wrote: >> Jorge Gustavo Rocha via Qgis-user writes: >> >> 2) Using a geographic CRS, the same 150mm x 150mm map, at the same >>> 1:1 scale, the area is bigger then

Re: [Qgis-user] Help with scales in print layouts for geographic CRS

Jorge Gustavo Rocha via Qgis-user writes: > I need you help to understand how scale works with geographic > coordinate systems. A good question. > This is my use case: It seems like your minimal example to show what doesn't work like you think it should, instead of what you want to do, but

Re: [Qgis-user] question about DATE of satellite ESRI and Google basemaps in QuickMapServices Plugin

Nick Jadallah via Qgis-user writes: > I have installed QuickMapServices for QGIS to have more basemap options. I > have used the "Google Satellite" and "ESRI Satellite" basemaps. It just > occurred to me that the YEAR in which these maps were published (i.e. which > year the satellite image