[Qgis-user] problem with QGIS 1.7 --snapshot?

2011-08-02 Thread Jim Hammack
I have a simple project which includes a BlueMarble geotiff background, a shapefile of U.S. state boundaries, and several shapefiles of projected tropical storm tracks. When I save an image of the map interactively using the Save as Image menu item, the resulting png file accurately reflects

[Qgis-user] applying symbology to multiple layers in a group

2011-03-08 Thread Jim Hammack
I have 199 point shapefiles of water depths that I would like to display and edit using QGIS. Since all of these shapefiles are in one geographic area, I would like the symbology to be the same for all the files, but don't want to point click to setup

Re: [Qgis-user] applying symbology to multiple layers in a group

2011-03-08 Thread Jim Hammack
: On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:24:37 -0600 Jim Hammack hamm...@gotslack.org wrote: Do you have any ideas on why I cannot group the layers? Layer should be dragged to the bottom of the group and then you should see a blue line which marks position where layer will be added

Re: [Qgis-user] applying symbology to multiple layers in a group

2011-03-08 Thread Jim Hammack
Alexander, Okay, now I see it and it is working. I was trying to place the line *on* the group icon and not below it, so the layer would jump above the group. The images were very helpful. Thank you very much.

Re: AW: AW: Re: Fwd: [Qgis-user] QGIS Near

2010-10-22 Thread Jim Hammack
- Originalnachricht - Von: "Jim Hammack" hamm...@gotslack.org Gesendet: Don, 21.10.2010 19:20 An: "Ziegler Stefan" stefan.zieg...@bd.so.ch Cc: qgis-user qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Betreff: Re: AW: Re: Fwd: [Qgis-user] QGIS "Near" Stefan, I was look

Re: AW: Re: Fwd: [Qgis-user] QGIS Near

2010-10-21 Thread Jim Hammack
Stefan, I was looking for the same functionality as Zoran so have also been working with your "Nearest" plugin. It is exactly what I need and seems to work well. Thanks! Jim On 10/20/2010

[Qgis-user] shapefile clipping behavior in qgis revision 13903

2010-07-10 Thread Jim Hammack
I am using QGIS to display oil spill extents and tropical weather in the Gulf of Mexico. I've found that since I moved from 1.4.0 to 1.5.0 (rev 13903) that the clipping behavior has changed, and not in a good way! (This may have happened much earlier than rev 13903, but I haven't been

[Qgis-user] MrSID support for qgis 1.3.0 on Slackware 13

2009-11-20 Thread Jim Hammack
To include MrSID support in qgis when using Slackware 13, you must build gdal from source and include the LizardTech sdk by adding this line to your gdal 'configure' command: --with-mrsid=/path_to_sdk in my case: ./configure --with-mrsid=/home/hammack/downloads/Geo_DSDK-7.0.0.2167 Do a

[Qgis-user] QGIS 1.3.0 on Slackware 13

2009-10-08 Thread Jim Hammack
All, I recently started using QGIS on Linux in order to completely rid myself of proprietary software. I've been a Slackware user since the days of 5 1/4 floppies and was disappointed that there are no Slackware packages available for the newer releases of qgis. So I've created my own

[Qgis-user] Couldn't load PyQGIS.

2008-08-11 Thread Jim Hammack
I've been running qgis 0.10 on my Slack 12.1 machine (from a pre-built package from slacky.eu) with no problems. I just built 0.11 from source and now see this error when starting the program: Couldn't load PyQGIS. Python support will be disabled. Traceback (most recent call last): File