Re: [Qgis-user] How to get rid of the rest of the World?

2014-04-23 Thread Murkor
how to make a rectangular area of longitude and latitude coordinates that enables to cut away the area not needed in other layers? In QGIS 2.2 (and just about any GIS that has geoprocessing tools) there are two ways to extract data. The first is to clip the data from the existing file using

[Qgis-user] How to get rid of the rest of the World?

2014-04-22 Thread kmgkmgkmgkmg .
Hello everyone.. I will be going on a little bit here now.. Wonder how to create a clip/mask layer or do something to the same effect? More specifically, how to make a rectangular area of longitude and latitude coordinates that enables to cut away the area not needed in other layers? Since

Re: [Qgis-user] How to get rid of the rest of the World?

2014-04-22 Thread Simon Cropper
Marcus, I think what you are asking is can you just view the area that you are working on and have QGIS hide or filter out those feature not within the area of concern. From my understanding is no. Well not exactly. My understanding is that shapefiles will allways be processed regardless

Re: [Qgis-user] How to get rid of the rest of the World?

2014-04-22 Thread Alexandre Neto
Hello Marcus, The feature I believe you are describing is being worked by a few developer, have a look in this pull request: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/1254 Maybe it lands in QGIS 2.4 :) Alexandre Neto On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:57 PM, kmgkmgkmgkmg . km.gul...@gmail.com wrote: Hello

Re: [Qgis-user] How to get rid of the rest of the World?

2014-04-22 Thread Alex Mandel
I usually make a new vector Layer. Then you can draw or use the numerical vector editor to add a polygon. This polygon can then be used as a clipping mask. Simply having a layer of a given extent isn't enough, you have to have a polygon object in the layer. As for why this isn't the way it