[Qgis-user] querying a shapefile

2010-01-11 Thread Nik Go
Hello. Happy new year to all. I have a shapefile of cities, is it possible to do the following in QGIS - determine and visually display all cities with attribute x or y - find out if the x cities share a border with other x cities - if they do, I want to add an attribute to the

Re: [Qgis-user] calculating area

2009-11-21 Thread Nik Go
Thank you all for the tips. I've actually managed to do the same when I changed the CRS to the appropriate UTM. On 11/21/09, John C. Tull jct...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nik, On Nov 20, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Nik Go wrote: Hello. I'm trying to calculate area of my shapefiles but I'm not really

[Qgis-user] calculating distances between points

2009-11-21 Thread Nik Go
I have two CSV files which I've converted to VRTs containing points on the map. Maps are projected in UTM. How can I determine the distances of points in File #1 from points in File #2? By distance, I mean distance like as-the-crow flies. Is it possible to generate these values and add a column

[Qgis-user] calculating area

2009-11-20 Thread Nik Go
Hello. I'm trying to calculate area of my shapefiles but I'm not really sure if I'm doing it right. I expect results to be in meters (sq meters or sq. kilometers) but read out is in sq. degrees. I'm told that I have shapefiles in geographic coordinate system WGS 84 but I don't know to convert

[Qgis-user] Re: qgis on xubuntu 9.10 - won't start

2009-11-09 Thread Nik Go
. (Removed by manually deleting the folder ~/.qgis/plugins/geoprocessing) Hope this helps. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Nik Go nikolai...@gmail.com wrote: I recently did a clean install of 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10. Qgis was working fine until i installed the xubuntu-desktop (well, at least that's

Re: [Qgis-user] qgis on xubuntu 9.10 - won't start

2009-11-09 Thread Nik Go
, at 1:44 AM, Nik Go nikolai...@gmail.com wrote: I recently did a clean install of 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10. Qgis was working fine until i installed the xubuntu-desktop (well, at least that's the last thing I remembered installing.) and now I couldn launch qgis. No error message is displayed

[Qgis-user] qgis on xubuntu 9.10 - won't start

2009-11-08 Thread Nik Go
I recently did a clean install of 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10. Qgis was working fine until i installed the xubuntu-desktop (well, at least that's the last thing I remembered installing.) and now I couldn launch qgis. No error message is displayed on the screen. Tried to do a backtrace but I get the

[Qgis-user] plugin_installer error

2009-03-15 Thread Nik Go
I'm using Ubuntu 64-bit Intrepid and QGIS 1.0.1 Kore. I manually installed the ftools plugin in ~/.qgis/python/plugins/ and it works but the plugin_installer in the same path gets me an error: Couldn't load plugin plugin_installer due an error when calling its initGui() method Traceback (most