Re: [Qgis-user] Misaligned Google OpenLayers layer

2013-03-11 Thread Percy Langa
On 2013/03/11 04:53 AM, Nathan Woodrow wrote: Hi all, Has anyone noticed that the Google based layers in the OpenLayers plugin are misaligned when zooming in to about 1:1000. I have some property lines that look ok when zoomed to 1:1500 but anything under that and the scale of the image see

Re: [Qgis-user] LIDAR and QGIS

2013-02-24 Thread Percy Langa
On 2013/02/24 02:44 PM, Jake Maier wrote: Hi Everyone Does anyone have experience with LIDAR and qgis, what do I need to display LIDAR information within qgis? I mean other than the 2 terabyte hard drive to obtain the information? Or does anyone know if I can get LIDAR for Maine (USA) on t

Re: [Qgis-user] Q Gis - from tif to map

2013-02-13 Thread Percy Langa
On 2013/02/13 11:30 AM, Mauro Graziani wrote: Hy all, anyone know how i can transform a georeferenced image into a map to load it as offline map on Orux? Regards, Mauro Hi Mauro, Have a look at Mobile Atlas Creator: http://mobac.sourceforge.net Cheers, Percy

Re: [Qgis-user] Asus Nexus 7

2013-01-07 Thread Percy Langa
On 2013/01/08 12:28 AM, Nuno de Santos Loureiro wrote: Hi all, Today I received an Asus Nexus 7 (Google), 32 GB. I'm planning to install QGIS. Does anyone have experience of using a simple project in QGIS, in the tablet? I have been following such developments from a distance. Have a looky he

Re: [Qgis-user] Opening QGIS more than one time on OSX

2012-12-18 Thread Percy Langa
On 2012/12/18 12:04 PM, Olav Peeters wrote: Andreas, you can use Automator and create a desktop icon (so in Automator drag "Run Shell Script" to stage, paste "open -n /Applications/QGIS.app/" , save as application, call it eg qgis_unlimited.app ). I'm sure you can also replace the icon, but I

Re: [Qgis-user] Opening QGIS more than one time on OSX

2012-12-18 Thread Percy Langa
On 2012/12/18 10:18 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote: I came across http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/25275/how-to-open-two-projects-at-once-in-one-qgis-window - suggesting to start it again from the command line with "open -n /Applications/QGIS.app/" - however, since many OSX users do not know

Re: [Qgis-user] I am getting difficulty to open QGIS

2012-12-11 Thread Percy Langa
On 2012/12/11 01:17 PM, AJAY KUMAR MULAKALA wrote: Dear all, I am very glad to say that I am using Open source GIS softwares. Present I am using "Quantum GIS Desktop (1.8.0)" from last month. Unexpectedly since me and my colleague unable to open QGIS.. in windows XP, vista and 7 too.? Hi A

Re: [Qgis-user] Coordinate Display

2012-11-12 Thread Percy Langa
On 2012/11/13 06:18 AM, . wrote: How do I change the coordinate display at the bottom of the screen from x,y to lat, long ? Settings > Project Properties > General Tab: Degree Display You can also choose your preferred measurements/canvas units (m,f,d), etc. Cheers, Percy ___

Re: [Qgis-user] 1.9 alfa

2012-11-01 Thread Percy Langa
On 2012/11/01 08:10 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Il 01/11/2012 23:36, Percy Langa ha scritto: Same here. Latest qgis-dev on Win 7 64bit. My workaround is to reload the .shp file (remove & add). Luckily, this happened to one or two .shp files (polygons). So, it not a huge issue. Please op

Re: [Qgis-user] 1.9 alfa

2012-11-01 Thread Percy Langa
On 2012/11/01 04:00 PM, Sebastiano Lora wrote: Hello, one short question, I updated the daily QGIS alfa (1.9.02 on win7 64bit) and I have a problem with the shapefiles: when I open the attribute table no values are displayed, even if the polygon are correctly displayed and the connection with

Re: [Qgis-user] clipping vector files

2012-09-26 Thread Percy Langa
On 2012/09/26 03:15 PM, michael chiverton wrote: why is it that qgis is now shutting down everytime i try and clip a piece of a vector file? Hi, Does this problem persist when you use another vector file? Btw, I have no issues with the clip tool. I'm running qgis-dev. Cheers, Percy

Re: [Qgis-user] Composer problems.

2012-08-01 Thread Percy Langa
On 2012/08/01 10:28 PM, Tim Sutton wrote: Hi On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Chandra Shekhar Balachandran wrote: I am a new user and returning to some simple GIS work to create maps for geography education in Bangalore, India. I have been doing some trial runs. I use two systems: A MacBoo

Re: [Qgis-user] SEXTANTE Plugin incorrectly(?) reported as broken

2012-07-11 Thread Percy Langa
On 2012/07/11 10:03 AM, Rudi Thiede wrote: Hi all, I'm getting a weird message from QGIS about SEXTANTE. After installation of the plugin, QGIS says: The plugin is broken. Python said: 2 This happened to me yesterday after upgrading to the latest QGIS-dev build (code cbde7d4) on Win 7. Thi

Re: [Qgis-user] clicking Project properties crashes qgis

2012-06-22 Thread Percy Langa
On 2012/06/22 11:38 AM, j. z. wrote: In 1.7 and 1.8 clicking 'Project properties' in menu or button in status bar causes Qgis to crash. I have 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8 installed paralellly and 1.8 through osgeo4w and only 1.6 works properly. Im on Win 7 + qgis-dev (via the osgeo4w installer). Zero c

Re: [Qgis-user] Announcing the release of QGIS 1.8

2012-06-21 Thread Percy Langa
On 2012/06/21 11:14 AM, Tim Sutton wrote: We are very pleased to announce the release of QGIS 1.8.0 'Lisboa'. awesome! Cheers, Percy ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Qgis first startup is slow

2012-05-24 Thread Percy Langa
On 2012/05/24 12:43 PM, Andreas Neumann wrote: Thats way too slow. There must be something seriously wrong. Are the same timings for the latest 1.8 nightly? On my machine (Win7, SSD disk) the first (cold) start is < 10 seconds. Few plugins activated. +1 for few plugins activated. Win 7, late

Re: [Qgis-user] Error messages at startup

2012-05-23 Thread Percy Langa
On 2012/05/24 08:27 AM, Anita Graser wrote: I'd recommend using OpenLayers plugin instead of GoogleLayers because it works better and has even more functionality. +1 Cheers, Percy ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.o

Re: [Qgis-user] "QGIS friendly" courses

2012-05-04 Thread Percy Langa
On 2012/05/02 08:59 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Hi all. Following the decision taken during the Lyon HackFest, we now have a new initiative, branded "QGIS friendly courses". The idea is to list on QGIS website all the courses that will promise to donate either development time or money for the wel

Re: [Qgis-user] [Off-Topic]Tips on buying a new laptop

2011-09-28 Thread percy langa
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote: > I would mainly make sure you have enough RAM and an OS that can benefit of > the additional RAM. I would recommend at least 4GB RAM, better 8. > > Linux 64bit should be able to use the additional RAM, the Win32 QGIS cannot > use more than

Re: [Qgis-user] [Off-Topic]Tips on buying a new laptop

2011-09-28 Thread percy langa
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: > Video - Discrete ATI or Nvidia 256 MB or more > I take that Ubuntu runs well on both Nvidia and ATI. My experience with Ubuntu PPC 9.04 and 10.04 on Apple's Powerbook G4 nvidia chips (as compared to ATIs) is rather bad (choppy, buggy, slow an

[Qgis-user] Tips on buying a new laptop

2011-09-28 Thread percy langa
Heya, So I've decided to register for a GIS Module, along with other modules as part of a Bsc Hons Geography Degree. The good news is that this is an opportunity to get a new laptop, a fresh start :) The not-so-good news is that the GIS course is based on IDRISI (well, I have never used IDRISI, a

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] netiquette

2011-09-26 Thread percy langa
> > Yes but maybe distilled down to a few simple points - that rfc is a > bit heavy to read. Rather something like: > > - please disable html mode in your mail client > - please post inline, inserting your comments after each point in the > original poster's message > - please clip away extraneous

Re: [Qgis-user] Newbie to GIS and QGIS

2011-08-23 Thread percy langa
I am also on ubuntu 10.04 LTS on the PPC hardware (powerbook G4). However, I mainly run QGIS a windows (work) laptop & a Mac OS 10.5 powerbook G4 (for beta testing purposes). Percy On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:03 AM, percy langa wrote: > Welcome for the forum! Well, I am also relatively

Re: [Qgis-user] Newbie to GIS and QGIS

2011-08-23 Thread percy langa
Welcome for the forum! Well, I am also relatively to QGIS, but not new to GIS. Unzip the downloaded file. On QGIS, select the 'Layer' menu, Add Vector Layer, Source Type: File, browse to your data folder, choose a shapefile or several shapefiles to load. Alternatively, you can use 'Source Type: D

Re: [Qgis-user] KML to GoogleEarth

2011-07-28 Thread percy langa
t; default at a global level to this: > > +proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs > > ,but that only works on whatever new layers i may create, the dialog > says. > > So, since QGIS can't do the xlation for me on export (i.e. Layer -> "save >

Re: [Qgis-user] KML to GoogleEarth

2011-07-27 Thread percy langa
Works for me >> Qgis 1.6 >> CRS: WGS84, EPSG:4326, 3452 Also try saving to GPS exchange format, then open in google earth. Cheers! Percy On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Giovanni Manghi wrote: > Tha probably your shapefile is missing the .prj file, so when you load > it into QGIS it will proba

Re: [Qgis-user] qgis.org status?

2011-07-22 Thread percy langa
Hey Dave, The site is up. Give it another go. Are you able to access other sites? Cheers! On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:27 PM, David Miller wrote: > Good day! Wasn't sure which list/forum to post this to so thought I'd > start here. Perhaps someone knows the status of the qgis.org site, i.e. > wh

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 1.7 (Print Composer) stability issues (Win XP)

2011-07-20 Thread percy langa
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Giovanni Manghi wrote: > > As you mentioned, we better use 1.6 version for composing the maps till > the > > issue is fixed in 1.7. > > Even better would be test the qgis-dev release (with osgeo4w, under > Windows) and report back if the issue is still there. >

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 1.7 (Print Composer) stability issues (Win XP)

2011-07-19 Thread percy langa
poser and > PDF export issues. > > It is mainly a matter of releasing QGIS 1.7.1 - I don't know the plans for > the next bugfix release. > > Andreas > > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:41:45 +0200, percy langa wrote: > >> typo: "I think a work-around was discussed o

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 1.7 (Print Composer) stability issues (Win XP)

2011-07-19 Thread percy langa
typo: "I think a work-around was discussed on the list a few *weeks* ago?" On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:17 PM, percy langa wrote: > Hi Murali, > > I think a work-around was discussed on the list a few ago? I also found > that the New Symbology has performances issues on the P

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS 1.7 (Print Composer) stability issues (Win XP)

2011-07-19 Thread percy langa
as possible. > > Regards, > Murali Krishna Gurram > > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:23 PM, percy langa wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> >> >> My experience with 1.7 has been good and really bad. >> >> >> >> I really like the new fe

[Qgis-user] QGIS 1.7 (Print Composer) stability issues (Win XP)

2011-07-19 Thread percy langa
Hey all, My experience with 1.7 has been good and really bad. I really like the new features, especially the ability to switch between Old and New Symbology. The trouble started with Print Composer. First, it was Legend issues (a white band appears at the top of the Legend, extending to the t

Re: [Qgis-user] Send us your tips!

2011-02-22 Thread percy langa
Hi Tim, I think this is a fantastic idea. I'll be contributing my tips in the near future. BTW, Im also based SA. KZN North Coast to be precise (ex-state employer and now environmental consultant). Cheers, Percy >> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:02:15 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> Yester

[Qgis-user] Re: Issue with map units on scale bar (wgs84 prj) (qgis 1.6, win xp)

2011-02-13 Thread percy langa
Oops, ignore this: snip/ Also, how I do reply so that my message goes to the mailing list? snip/ Percy On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:27 PM, percy langa wrote: > Hey all, > > Under print composer, I can load all the other bits (map, legend, > labels, north arrow) with a problem. The

Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Issue with map units on scale bar (wgs84 prj) (qgis 1.6, win xp)

2011-02-13 Thread percy langa
Hi Howard, Problem solved: Segment size: 0.0100 Map units: 0.01 R Segment: 2 L Segment: 1 Also, how I do reply so that my message goes to the mailing list? Thanks and cheers, Percy On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:20 AM, hayamaguchi wrote: > > Hi, Percy.  If your map unit is in meters (m) but want y

[Qgis-user] Issue with map units on scale bar (wgs84 prj) (qgis 1.6, win xp)

2011-02-11 Thread percy langa
Hey all, Under print composer, I can load all the other bits (map, legend, labels, north arrow) with a problem. The scale bar is giving me issues. The units only show in meters (0.01m) not kilometers (1km). I want to show kilometers. I must be doing something wrong somewhere. Any pointers. Cheer