[Qgis-user] (no subject)

2014-12-05 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear List, A quick question: When using QGIS Dufour how can I freehand draw lines on an existing map and save? I've tried to load and use the freehand editing plugin but with not good results. Any help would be greatly appreciated. John Rask __

[Qgis-user] co-ord capture plugin

2013-04-18 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear list, Please excuse me if this message is directed somewhere else. My old Acer laptop seems to be on it's last legs and at times has a mind of it's own. I recently tried to use the coordinate capture plugin and found it gone from my version 1.8 I tried to retrieve it with the manage plugins to

[Qgis-user] (no subject)

2013-04-18 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear List, Speaking of co-ordinate plugins, when I tried to use the co-ordinate capture plugin on my version of 1.80 I noticed that it had vanished. Using the fetch plugins option did not show it in the repositories. Is it still available? Thanks in advance' John Rask

[Qgis-user] (no subject)

2013-04-07 Thread john raskulinecz
sorry for this spam, trying to get my Hotmail to actually send to the list, j.r. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

[Qgis-user] (no subject)

2013-04-07 Thread john raskulinecz
Pedro, yes, I sent 2 to you before I realized they didn't show up on the list. I believe the last one did make it to the user's list. I will take your advice and ask again, at the risk of becoming annoying, for some one who has the skills and time to create a user friendly Weights of Evidence pl

[Qgis-user] drawimg freehand

2012-10-15 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear Peter, Sorry, I think I replied directly to you instead of the list. I have downloaded Inksscape and will play with it for a while. I have created large topo maps from smaller ones using AllTopo software. They are in .tiff format. I'm not sure what will be the fastest way to convert to

[Qgis-user] Drawing lines on raster files

2012-10-08 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear list, Does any one know how to draw line, circles, etc. freehand with the cursor and then save to the current qgis project? I am using 1.7 and 1.8 but may not have loaded the plugin if it exists. Any help will of course bwe most appreciated.John Rask

[Qgis-user] download qgis on mac os

2012-08-12 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear List, I tried to download Qgis 1.8 and then 1.6 on a mac but got the error message gdal missing. On win7 every thing downloads and opens pretty easily. I am a point and click user so I hope its something easy to miss. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John Rask

[Qgis-user] admin rights win 7

2012-07-30 Thread john raskulinecz
Hello Chuck, Thanks for the advice. I will be following your tips over the next few days. I'm not all that computer literate, more of a point and click user, but I get the general drift. J.R. ___ Qgis-user maili

[Qgis-user] win 7 doesen't like Qgis

2012-07-28 Thread john raskulinecz
Hello Matt, I got it to work by downloading to a flash drive. You're probably right about using admn. commands, I just haven't got to trying that. I did see "unable to loadQt5.dll etc." during one attempt though. Again, thank you, J.R.

[Qgis-user] showing google layers, downloading 1.8.0

2012-07-27 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear List, Just wanted to thank again those who offered help to me in the past and to let all know that I got a Google satilite image to load in Qgis 1.8 with the open layers pluggin. I first had to download the new Qgis version onto a flash drive as win 7 64 bit (or maybe my anti virus or b

[Qgis-user] using Google in open layers

2012-07-26 Thread john raskulinecz
Hello and thanks to Matt and Micha,I do have open layers in my version of QGIS 1.7.4 and when I try to add the Google satilite image, or any other layer for that matter, it crashes the program with the message "QGIS has stoped working... etc." I have tried to upgrade to 1.8 but windows red f

[Qgis-user] working with google earth

2012-07-25 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear List, I've seen this discussed before and tried to follow the links but still do not know how, or if it's possible, to load Google earth layers into a Qgis project. Any ideas about how to make the two interactive would be great. Thanks in advance John Rask

[Qgis-user] contours

2012-07-11 Thread john raskulinecz
Micha, Believe it or not since I last posted and before I rechecked the list I did just that. It works wonderfuly! The file I am contouring contains magneric readings and plays well with other layers once the crs's are set. I have some gravity data that is in the same txt format however

[Qgis-user] contours

2012-07-11 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear List, First, thanks to all who have helped me in the past. I am always amazed at the selfless acts by thosewith more knowledge than I have about Qgis and their willingness to share that kmowledge. I only hope that some day I can contibute in kind. Micha, thanks for the direc

[Qgis-user] contours

2012-07-08 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear Alex,Yes ! This works. Thanks! If you're ever in Reno, Nv., U.S.A. give me a call and I'll buy you a a beverage of your chioce!J.R. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo

[Qgis-user] contour plugin

2012-07-08 Thread john raskulinecz
Hello Giovani,Thank you for your suggestion but I guess my problem is finding the plugin. When I go to manage plugins and try to add I don't see contour as an option. It shows add delimited text layer, co-ordinate capture, etc. all of which I have and use but, alas no contour.It seems that

[Qgis-user] contours

2012-07-08 Thread john raskulinecz
Hello Micha,Thanks for your interest. I have some magnetic, and gravity data files that open as delimited text filesfrom the layer option in qgis 1.7.4. They are text documents written in Word, (I think excel spreadsheet format).They show as a layer and can be customized by right clicking prop

[Qgis-user] contour delimited text files

2012-07-07 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear List, I posted this question several months ago and was wondering if anything new has come about: is it possible to contour values in a delimited text file and show in qgis 1.7.4, or any other version? It used to be easy to do in earlier versions. For that matter can shp. files be contou

[Qgis-user] open officce

2012-03-26 Thread john raskulinecz
Andreas, thanks,I'll download and load the csv files then try to work with them.Much appreciated,J. r.___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

[Qgis-user] open office

2012-03-26 Thread john raskulinecz
Hello again David, I guess I should have asked before but where is open office found? Is it in excel or grass ? thanks, J.R. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/li

[Qgis-user] contours txt

2012-03-26 Thread john raskulinecz
Hell David, and thank you for your suggestions. I will try your idea but fear the manual entry of many data points will make this very time consuming. I think I know what I will be doing for the next couple of days. again thanks; J.R. ___

[Qgis-user] txt to raster

2012-03-26 Thread john raskulinecz
Ramon, thanks for the idea of using Raster>conversion> rasterize. Unfortunately I think that's for vector to raster and raster to vector and gave the message unsupported file. The other options in conversion also gave the same message. thnx, J.R. _

[Qgis-user] .txt file contours

2012-03-26 Thread john raskulinecz
Hello Giovanni and T. Gray,Thanks for the suggestions. When I loaded the plugins and went to raster>extraction>contour and browsed then entered the file it said it wasn't recognized as a supported file type. I think it wants tiffs. Is there by chance a way to convert txt to tiff or raster t

[Qgis-user] contours

2012-03-25 Thread john raskulinecz
Hello Giovani,Thanks for your suggestion regarding contouring delim txt files. When I click Raster on the main toolbar that has " File Edit View, etc." it only shows raster calculator. I tried that but it said it was doing base template building. So I guess I'm back to square one. Might ther

[Qgis-user] contour delim txt files

2012-03-25 Thread john raskulinecz
Ramon, thanks, I was wondering why I couldn't find it. J.R. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

[Qgis-user] contours

2012-03-25 Thread john raskulinecz
Micha, thanksI downloaded QGISOSGEOW-1.7.4D211BV.16 and its up and running and have looked in Plugins>manage plugins> but can not find contours. I have right clicked on the layer and looked for contour, then went to properties and could not find a way. It seems to me that it wasn't this hard

[Qgis-user] how to contour delimited text files

2012-03-25 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear List, Ihave QGIS 1.7.4 rinning on win 7 and am trying to contour a delimeted txt file that shows great. Ithought there was a contour plugin i used before but can't locate it now. Does any one know where it might be found?Thanks in advance,J.R.P.S. Thanks to all have helped me in the pa

[Qgis-user] Micha, re. linux

2012-03-12 Thread john raskulinecz
Hello Micha, Sorry for my vast ignorance in advance. i clicked on the link you provided for the osg dvd and burned a copy to a dvd. Should I now download a copy of Linux to an external hard drive and open QGIS from there? The external has 1 terra byte storage with 500 gigabytes unused space. I

[Qgis-user] Andreas, windows 64 bit

2012-03-12 Thread john raskulinecz
Andreas, hello, and thanks for the info. That may explain why my QGIS Wroclaw version quit working after I upgraded to win 7 64 bit on my Acer laptop.I've been going around in circles trying to find and reinstall the missing dll files that the error message keeps telling me about. Thanks agai

[Qgis-user] Case sensitive

2012-03-12 Thread john raskulinecz
David, You're right, I wouldn't have got it then but do now. But seriously, does windows 7 restrict QGIS'S abilities? J.R. ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/l

[Qgis-user] Sorry for my faux pau

2012-03-12 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear Micha, Actually I was told about "shouting" before so my apologies for not remembering and thanks for the polite admonishment. I will give the linux download option a try. and thanks again for the quick post and info, J.R.

[Qgis-user] THANKS FOR THE INPUT

2012-03-12 Thread john raskulinecz
DEAR ALEX, THANKS VERY MUCH FOR YOUR INPUT REGARDING PUTTING TOGETHER A DESK TOP SYSTEM FOR QGIS. YOU ANSWERED MY CONCERNS. BUDGET IS, OF COURSE, IMPORTANT BUT NOT A LIMITING FACTOR; I DON'T WANT TO BE "PENNY WISE, POUND FOOLISH". I AM A LITTLE RELUCTANT TO US LINUX AS I DO NOT HAVE GREAT C

[Qgis-user] advice on the right hardware and o.s. to maximise qgis potential

2012-03-11 Thread john raskulinecz
DEAR LIST, WAS WONDERING IF ANYONE CAN GIVE ME SOME ADVICE AS TO WHAT WOULD BE THE BEST HARD WARE AND OPERATING SYSTEM TO COMPILE SO AS TO MAXIMISE GQGIS'S POTENTIAL AND UTILITIES. I AM ABOUT TO BUY A NEW DESK TOP SPECIFICALY TO RUN QGIS AND ALL PLUGINS AND WILL BE BUILDING FROM SCRATCH. ANY

[Qgis-user] qtcore4d.ll

2012-02-08 Thread john raskulinecz
Hello Jurgen and Giovanni, Thanks for the input. I am leaning toward a bug or worm from a downloaded file. I'll try to locate and when found I'll alert the list. Thanks again, J.R ___

[Qgis-user] thanks to jurgen

2012-02-06 Thread john raskulinecz
Hello Jurgen, Thanks for your reply. I have gone through all drives, removed all previous qgis, osg and related files, and then reloaded qgis 1.7.0 and it still gives the same error message. I'm wondering if the QtCore4.dll needs to be installed some where in win 7 before qgis is download

[Qgis-user] can not open QGIS 1.7.3

2012-02-06 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear List, When I try to open QGIS 1.7.O.IN WINDOWS 7 64 bit I get the following error message: qgis.ex-Entry Point Not Found the procedure entry point?staticMetaObject@AbstractTransistion@@2UQMetaObject@@B could not be located in the dynamiclinklibraryQtCore4.dll Every thing has worked fine

[Qgis-user] FW: changing symbology

2011-11-24 Thread john raskulinecz
From: jera...@hotmail.com To: qgisu...@list.org Subject: changing symbology Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:50:07 -0800 Dear list, First, thanks to all who have have helped make Qgis what it is today. IT ROCKS e I hope someone can help me with a problem I have been having while trying

[Qgis-user] test 2

2011-11-24 Thread john raskulinecz
___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

[Qgis-user] trouble with 1.7

2011-08-08 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear Giovani, I am not sure if I am doing things the right way. I am just trying to follow the prompts. I can now save changes to vector layer symbology by altering the layer transparency and then hitting enter on the keyboard but I don't think this is the intended procedure. I am using windo

[Qgis-user] trouble with 1.7

2011-08-08 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear List, I'm having trouble with QGIS 1.70. Among other things it does not want to save contoured delimeted text files or allow me to see the whole screen when trying to save changes to the symbology of vector layers. I have redownloaded several times and am wondering if there is a link to

[Qgis-user] (no subject)

2011-07-23 Thread john raskulinecz
Dear List, does any one know of a plug-in to do a weights of evidence analysis of different geospatial properties ? Thanks, John Rask___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/m