it so I was just hoping there is a setting under advanced I can
use. Does anyone know if there is one?
Thanks,
Paul Wittle
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Am 28.03.24 um 14:39 schrieb Paul Wittle via QGIS-User:
> Hi,
>
> I?ve been filtering a layer by adding a virtual column populated with
> is_selected() and then creating a virtual layer from it using the filter:
>
> WHERE virtualField = 1
>
> This is working well
Hi,
I've been filtering a layer by adding a virtual column populated with
is_selected() and then creating a virtual layer from it using the filter:
WHERE virtualField = 1
This is working well and allows you to have a copy of the layer that only shows
the selected records when you are creating
Hi,
I've been searching around and I can't seem to find any documentation on this.
I'm trying to add a pie chart to a layout and it works fine until the size of
the pie chart shrinks below a certain size.
For small pie charts there seems to be a really big margin applied to the
layout option
Morning,
That tool seems to be saving as I would have expected thank you for the tip
I’ve told the users to use that tool instead of right click > export for now.
Cheers,
Paul
From: Richard Greenwood
Sent: 02 December 2021 00:37
To: Nicolas Cadieux
Cc: Paul Wittle ; qgis-user
Subject:
Hi,
I've tried exporting to MIF instead of a tab file and it generates an error of
"Found [region] while searching for [version]" when you try to load it into the
MapInfo. The output is also creating an error when QGIS tries to load the data
as well although I'm not sure if QGIS could ever
is now incorrect and
requires a further alteration to set the CRS?
Thanks,
Paul
From: Zoltán Siki
Sent: 30 November 2021 22:54
To: Paul Wittle
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] MapInfo export issue
Dear PAul,
QGIS exports MapInfo 3 compatible TABs or MIFs in non-earth CRS. You can check
it if you
Hi,
I was just about to try and push out version 3.16.14 but it has been pointed
out that if you export to MapInfo tab file it is no longer saving the
projection in the output.
Is anyone else finding that the resulting files are doing this and is there a
work around using say gdal options?
Hi,
I wanted to load a WFS layer into QGIS and I've found that when using QGIS at
work it will not work if the layer source is MSSQL or Oracle but is fine if the
database source is PostGIS. Has anyone else had any experience of getting it to
work for MSSQL?
I'm using GeoServer to serve up the
Hi,
I will try that out; thank you so much for the pointer
Paul
From: Hugh Kelley
Sent: 16 November 2021 18:11
To: Paul Wittle
Cc: qgis-user
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Project file format
Paul,
as far as the re-ordering of xml elements, I had a similar question about
version control
Hi,
I know people will probably ask "why?" in relation to this question but I've
got a Powershell script that I use to create copies of some QGIS projects
because I want to change the data source of a couple of layers between dev and
test. Rather than do this in QGIS it is done as part of an
Hi,
I've added a geometry generator to a line feature layer to buffer the line by
150m. This works fine in terms of the way it is displayed but when you info
click on the buffered area it does not return any results.
Is there a way to make the info click query based on the full extent of the
Hi,
I was wondering, is there a way to set a default setting when adding a new
Oracle connection for the option “Use estimated table statistics for the layer
metadata” in the ini file?
Not to worry if there isn’t / no-one knows but I don’t think there is a list of
switches anywhere so I
,
Paul
From: Nicolas Cadieux
Sent: 15 June 2021 19:23
To: Paul Wittle
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Hardware comparisons
Hi,
I think you will have difficulty finding that. It would be interesting to see.
I don’t think QGIS is particularity ram hungry. I have never seen à out of
memory error starting
Hi,
We were doing some testing for using GIS applications as RemoteApp solutions
today and I noticed that QGIS seems to be pretty RAM hungry compared with say
MapInfo. Does anyone know if there are any good summaries available showing the
differences in RAM/CPU use comparing all the big ones
for the help everyone; I'm really really pleased with the
performance now!
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Philip Barlow
Sent: 22 January 2021 13:39
To: Paul Wittle ; Julien Cabieces
Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [Qgis-user] Snapping tools really slow
Hi Paul,
What sort
if that is possible.
Thanks,
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Julien Cabieces
Sent: 22 January 2021 05:32
To: Paul Wittle
Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Snapping tools really slow
Hi,
I made quick tests with some dataset and I failed to see any performance issues.
Could you
indices and all is of good
quality. As I say the data downloads and displays within seconds on the map; is
it because I've selected snapping to segment as well as vertex?
Thanks,
Paul Wittle
[cid:image001.jpg@01D6F016.C23D1CA0]<https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/>
Business Solutions Analyst (GI
Hi,
As I'm sure is clear from the number of posts I've done of late we are
currently looking at how we use QGIS within our business. I thought I'd ask a
question here to see if others are considering it as I can't find too much chat
online about it but I wondered if perhaps there should be
Hi,
I have now worked out how to generate a user profile using python and I thought
I'd reply to my own post in case it is of use to others.
I used:
profilePath =
QStandardPaths.standardLocations(QStandardPaths.AppDataLocation)[0].replace("python","QGIS")
To get a path suitable for loading
Hi,
When we install QGIS on devices we have a series of customisations particular
to our work environment but I notice that the user profile is only generated
when the user opens the application for the first time. I was wondering whether
a simple python script as shown on 1. Introduction -
that using any of the
start-up options.
I'd be keen to hear other suggestions though?
Thanks,
Paul
From: Paul Wittle
Sent: 23 December 2020 09:04
To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Deployment customisation options
Hi,
I'm trying to update our deployment of QGIS to use a more standard method
Hi,
I'm trying to update our deployment of QGIS to use a more standard method of
deployment and customisation and I was looking at the page in the manual. I
noted the following options --customizationfile and --globalsettingsfile.
The customisation file ini turns off certain buttons from
Hi,
I can now see that you can export the auxiliary storage information but I can't
see an option it import it back. Is this a one way function but I can see lots
of uses where you might want to export customised labelling for a layer and
then import it into another project?
Thanks,
Paul
but it would also mean that every single record would need
to be in the auxiliary storage.
I guess the question remains and to whether it can / should be possible via any
of the default functionality?
Thanks,
Paul
From: Bernd Vogelgesang
Sent: 19 November 2020 14:55
To: Paul Wittle ; qgis-user
Hi,
Is there a way to turn on labelling without actually displaying any labels?
I would like to have a layer where there are no labels but if you use the
abc(eye) button I can add remove individual labels as required. At present the
best I can find is to label everything then individually hide
om GeoServer and if so; what URL format
did you use?
Thanks in advance,
Paul Wittle
[cid:image009.jpg@01D6BDC7.BF951B50]<https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/>
Business Solutions Analyst (GIS)
ICT Operations
Dorset Council
01305 228473
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Hi,
Has anyone experienced QGIS crashing out when trying to use get_feature_by_id
within a layout?
I'm using 3.10.2-A Coruna and it works until I change the ID to 346 at which
point QGIS just closes without any error messages.
I should point out the layer I'm looking at is an Oracle dataset
layoutByName("layout ") # name of the layout
# or layout = manager.layouts()[0] # first layout
exporter = QgsLayoutExporter(layout)
exporter.exportToPdf(project_instance.absolutePath() + "/layout-" + timestr +
".pdf",
QgsLayoutExporter.PdfExportSettin
to replicate the issue; my
working theory is trying to load too many features in the attribute table but
I'm not sure.
Thanks,
Paul Wittle
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Business Solutions Analyst (GIS)
ICT Operations
Dorset Council
01305
Hi,
I’m trying to install QGIS 3.10 32bit but I’m getting an error when it tries to
install the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client. The error reads
“Installation of this product failed because it is not supported on this
operating system. For information on supported configurations, see
Hi,
I seem to always be looking at QGIS at the wrong time of year and once again I
seem to have hit the magic LR/PR window where a new Long Term Release has been
issued but is not yet showing as the long term release in the advanced
installer. As usual my deadline is before the March release.
al-c-downloads
which I found referenced somewhere.
I don't seem to be getting the issue on my 32 bit installation but then for
course it was a separate install download so I'm not 100% certain why that one
works and this one doesn't.
Any help or pointers would be apricated,
Paul
Hi,
I have an issue with QGIS 3.4.7 as we are doing a normal select from an Oracle
table (which is partitioned). We are drawing a rectangle but QGIS is selecting
points outside the rectangle.
On closer inspection we found that the SQL issues searches for the ROWID rather
than the value of the
To: Tobias Wendorff ; Andrea Peri
Cc: qgis-user ; Paul Wittle
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] GeoPackage deadlocks (Andrea Peri)
(A little late).
TL;DR: at least for QGIS, is - never multi-user edit
SQLite/SpatiaLite/GeoPackages on network file systems.
SQLite, (and therefore SpatiaLite
Hi,
I've also been investigating this sort of work over the last two weeks and have
largely come to the same conclusion. I don't think there is a way to do it
directly at present without a chargeable plugin but I can't help but feel that
it might be possible to create a processing toolbox
do you do it?
Paul
P.S. I have heard about the compression issue but I was hoping that will be
resolved in the future given the prominence given to the format but the OGC.
From: Luigi Pirelli
Sent: 27 September 2019 09:56
To: Tobias Wendorff
Cc: Andrea Peri ; qgis-user ;
Paul Wittle
Subject
Hi,
My understanding is that GeoPackage and Spatialite are both based on SQLite so
I’ve been assuming both may be susceptible to this bug?
Paul
From: Andrea Peri
Sent: 27 September 2019 09:25
To: Paul Wittle
Cc: Gino Pirelli ; qgis-user
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] GeoPackage deadlocks (Andrea
To: Paul Wittle
Cc: Alessandro Pasotti ; qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] GeoPackage deadlocks (Andrea Peri)
without resting importance to the issue, reading the bug report, I can read you
moved from oracle spatial to geopackage! why not postgis?
Luigi Pirelli
if others that have experienced the issue could provide any
further relevant comments as I’ve not got it as well documented as I’d like.
Sorry, time constraints in the office.
Many thanks,
Paul
From: Alessandro Pasotti
Sent: 27 September 2019 08:20
To: Paul Wittle
Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Hi Andrea and Enrico,
Thank you for providing an answer even if it was not what I was hoping to hear;
it was the conclusion I'd reached myself.
Has this issue been considered given the official move from shapefile to
geopackage as the default format?
My understanding was that shapefiles could
2019 16:09
To: DelazJ
Cc: Paul Wittle ; qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Shortest path caching
Hi Harrissou
I was referring to the online documentation in the developers cookbook. The
user guide is effective. I perfectly understand the problem and wish I could
help
Hi,
I'm aware that you can use things like the pgRouting plugin for shortest path
calculations but when looking at the default functions is there a sensible way
to speed up the calculations?
I've just run a couple of tests using an Oracle database based routing layer
and it runs but seems to
oesn’t work and neither does quir.uri(False) so what
should I be using there or should the QgsRasterLayer function just be accepting
a ByteArray or String?
Thanks,
Paul
From: Paul Wittle
Sent: 26 July 2019 08:23
To: DelazJ
Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [Qgis-user] Using QgsAuthM
confirmed my interpretations are correct; they compiled but
that doesn’t mean I got them right!
Thanks,
Paul
From: DelazJ
Sent: 24 July 2019 23:25
To: Paul Wittle
Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Using QgsAuthManager
Hi,
Le mer. 24 juil. 2019 à 14:20, Paul Wittle
mailto:paul.wit
Hi,
Thank you for the speedy pull request for the Oracle passwords. Looks great
Cheers,
Paul
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Hi,
Thanks for the hint; unfortunately I’m still on version 3.4.7 and that plugin
requires version 3.6 or above.
Thanks,
Paul
From: Alessandro Pasotti
Sent: 24 July 2019 13:22
To: Paul Wittle
Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Using QgsAuthManager
Hi,
you may try
Hi,
I'm trying to use python to assign an authentication configuration to a WMS
layers that I'm adding. I have been using the following guide
https://docs.qgis.org/3.4/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/authentication.html#leave-authcfg-expansion-to-qgsauthmanager.
I had to update a few bits as
Hi,
Is anyone else getting occasional deadlocks when using GeoPackages in the Long
Term Release of QGIS?
We are using them over a Windows network so there are multiple users trying to
access the same GeoPackage files. It all seems fine and two or more can open
the file to look at but when
Hi,
I’m afraid not; there is no authentication section on the Oracle layers.
Thanks,
Paul
From: Luigi Pirelli
Sent: 24 July 2019 07:43
To: Paul Wittle
Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Oracle Passwords
doesn't authentication system works?
https://docs.qgis.org/3.4/en
Hi,
Are there any plans to replace the plain text passwords for Oracle data layers
yet and if not; how much work is involved in doing it now it exists for many
other formats?
We use Oracle pretty heavily and I'd like to remove any reliance on plain text
passwords if possible?
Many thanks,
, should it be "MITAB" or "MapInfo File"?
Thanks,
Paul
From: Paul Wittle
Sent: 04 July 2019 15:36
To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: GDAL locks and filetype support
Hi,
Following on from my previous email it is clear that quite a bit of work would
be required to substant
recommending its use.
I'm a massive advocate of QGIS and working hard to roll it out but it's been a
bad couple of weeks with file locks disrupting our users. I'm hoping the
database file format (Oracle) will be safe!
If anyone else is having similar issues I'd love to hear from you.
Thanks,
Paul
Hi,
I believe there may already be a bug ticket for this but I've found my
deployment of QGIS is causing MapInfo errors when opening MapInfo tab files. It
happens when you load the TAB file and also when you open the project and it
even happens when a TAB file is open but not rendering.
This
read and is it really not a quick
fix? Would I be correct in thinking there needs to be a switch added to a
function in the winToast dependency to fix it?
Thanks,
Paul
-Original Message-
From: Paul Wittle
Sent: 24 May 2019 08:56
To: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: Rogue start menu
3 May 2019 11:43:18 +0000, Paul Wittle
wrote:
I am not a Windows user, but I know that there is a configuration to
show recently used programs in start menu. I think it can be
disabled, if one use the procedure to activate and simply uncheck the option.
See:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-
but this is creating
a physical file with the extension *.lnk and as far as I can tell; wintoast is
the only bit of code which is aimed at Windows users and has the concept of a
*.lnk file (shortcut).
Paul
From: Alexandre Neto
Sent: 23 May 2019 12:34
To: Paul Wittle
Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Hi,
My install of QGIS 3 (LTR) keeps adding a shortcut to the start menu every time
I load the application. I can literally delete the shortcut then open QGIS and
watch it create the icon again.
Does anyone know how to stop it doing this; it is frankly just annoying when
applications change
suggestions.
Paul
From: Saber Razmjooei
Sent: 15 May 2019 08:20
To: Paul Wittle
Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] 3D views in Reports
Could you try and reduce the resolution of output (e.g. below 150px)?
Regards
Saber
On Wed, 15 May 2019 at 08:16, Paul Wittle
Hi,
I'm playing with the report feature in QGIS 3.4 (Madeira) long term release. I
added a 3D map view to the report but all I'm getting is a black box in the
reports.
Are 3D views not yet supported in the report tool or did I miss a setting
somewhere?
Best Regards,
Paul
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Hi,
I think I encountered point 2 the other day using QGIS 2 and although it was
the old version I still found it a bit worrying as the fault appeared to be
with the GeoPackage format rather than the software (although I'm sure the
software is heavily involved really).
I tried to add a
if I load the layer in EPSG:3857 (web
Mercator) but ironically the base dataset is in EPSG:27700 (BNG) so you would
have expected it to be the other way round.
Is this issue a known problem or is the issue more likely with my GeoServer
Gridset settings?
Best Regards,
Paul Wittle
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Hello,
I’m trying to create a cut down pro
nd disable
The current versions seems to only have the option to display or disable the
options but I'm trying to change the menu not disable functionality.
Best Regards,
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