Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-02-03 Thread Martin Dobias
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:33 PM, pcr...@pcreso.com wrote: Is it possible to have a second transparent map canvas, analogous to the Mapinfo cosmetic layer. This would allow, for example, a complex background map to remain static so a gps layer in the new canvas can be quickly refreshed

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-02-02 Thread Marco Hugentobler
Hi Martin Even more work is underway! We're going to release a native C++ OpenStreetMap provider for QGIS in few days. It will come also with OSM downloader and (very experimental) upload. That is great news! I can't wait to do some OSM mapping with QGIS :-) Regards, Marco Am Samstag 31

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Dobias
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Christopher Barker chris.bar...@noaa.gov wrote: Paolo Cavallini wrote: I've always been confused by that. But anyway, you could do it with Open Street Map tiles. Better take the vector data from OSM (see my previous suggestion): you can do more with that.

RE: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-02-02 Thread Aaron Racicot
...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Martin Dobias Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 4:01 PM To: Christopher Barker Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin? On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Christopher Barker chris.bar...@noaa.gov

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-02-01 Thread Craig Leat
Hi Andreas Neumann wrote: I also thought it may be possible to use the Google maps data from within QGIS. One could probably use a hidden Webkit to make Google think it is a regular webbrowser that is requesting the tiles - and then merge and potentially reproject the GoogleMap tiles to use

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-31 Thread G. Allegri
There's a work in progress with Python and OSM, maybe it could be of interest for your development: http://code.google.com/p/osmlab/ giovanni 2009/1/31 Florian Hillen fhil...@uni-osnabrueck.de: Dear mailing list, first of all I want to thank everybody for the input an the suggestions. Some

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-31 Thread G. Allegri
10.1 access or use the Service or any Content through any technology or means other than those provided in the Service, or through other explicitly authorized means Google may designate; So even the OL google layer is out-of-law... ___ Qgis-user

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-31 Thread Yves Jacolin (free)
Le samedi 31 janvier 2009, G. Allegri a écrit : 10.1 access or use the Service or any Content through any technology or means other than those provided in the Service, or through other explicitly authorized means Google may designate; So even the OL google layer is out-of-law... OL is

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-31 Thread G. Allegri
It's OT, we should open another thread... Anyway, it's not so clear. When the Google license says technology or means other than those provided in the Service what does it refer to exactly? OL is a mean other than the google.maps interface... I'm not a lawyer, so I ask it just to be sure.

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-31 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Florian Hillen ha scritto: first of all I want to thank everybody for the input an the suggestions. Some plugins are a bit to extensive for my bachelor thesis (I can maximal write about 40 pages), so I pick up the suggestion with the OpenStreetMap plugin and modify it a little. I'm glad of

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-31 Thread Martin Dobias
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Florian Hillen ha scritto: first of all I want to thank everybody for the input an the suggestions. Some plugins are a bit to extensive for my bachelor thesis (I can maximal write about 40 pages), so I pick up the

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-31 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Martin Dobias ha scritto: Even more work is underway! We're going to release a native C++ OpenStreetMap provider for QGIS in few days. It will come also with OSM downloader and (very experimental) upload. Creating another OSM plugin would therefore cause just code duplication. That's quite

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-30 Thread Jacolin Yves
Andreas, Le Friday 30 January 2009 08:40:48 Andreas Neumann, vous avez écrit : I also thought it may be possible to use the Google maps data from within QGIS. One could probably use a hidden Webkit to make Google think it is a regular webbrowser that is requesting the tiles - and then merge

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-30 Thread Jacolin Yves
Le Thursday 29 January 2009 23:36:35 Giovanni Manghi, vous avez écrit : Hi Florian. Of course there are thousands of interesting things to do. I put y preferred ones: - an OpenStreetMap reader and writer; there is a proof of concept by Martin, who I believe is also interested in carrying

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-30 Thread Lionel Roubeyrie
Hi, the two things which let me use ArcGIS are: 1- a better labelling method. A plugin to render correctly labels would make the difference. 2- The geostatistical analyst is a quick and easy way to make kriged maps, and explore interpolated datas. Le jeudi 29 janvier 2009 à 17:52 +0100, Florian

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 17:52 +0100, Florian Hillen wrote: Dear mailing list. Concerning my bachelor thesis in geoinformatics I am thinking about developing a useful plugin for QGIS. Using QGIS quiet frequently, I was not missing a feature so far, but maybe anyone of you can imagine a missing

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-30 Thread Carson Farmer
Hi Nikos, Concerning my bachelor thesis in geoinformatics I am thinking about developing a useful plugin for QGIS. Using QGIS quiet frequently, I was not missing a feature so far, but maybe anyone of you can imagine a missing functionality!? I appreciate all kinds of suggestions or any idea that

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-30 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 14:53 +, Carson Farmer wrote: Hi Nikos, Concerning my bachelor thesis in geoinformatics I am thinking about developing a useful plugin for QGIS. Using QGIS quiet frequently, I was not missing a feature so far, but maybe anyone of you can imagine a missing

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-30 Thread Andreas Neumann
yes - you are probably right too bad. It would have been a cool resource for worldwide coverage. Jacolin Yves wrote: Andreas, Le Friday 30 January 2009 08:40:48 Andreas Neumann, vous avez écrit : I also thought it may be possible to use the Google maps data from within QGIS. One

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-30 Thread Christopher Barker
Andreas Neumann wrote: I also thought it may be possible to use the Google maps data from within QGIS. One could probably use a hidden Webkit to make Google think it is a regular webbrowser that is requesting the tiles you wouldn't need to do all that -- google tiles are a regular old web

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-30 Thread G. Allegri
This is forbidden by the Google user licence. Are you sure? Why should it be forbidden? If you use a web toolkit under the hood you don't do anything different from browsing google maps... Am I wrong? ___ Qgis-user mailing list

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-30 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:12:39PM +0100, G. Allegri wrote: This is forbidden by the Google user licence. Are you sure? Why should it be forbidden? From The Google Maps/Google Earth APIs Terms of Service http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html Read specially 10.8: ... you must not

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-30 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Christopher Barker ha scritto: I've always been confused by that. But anyway, you could do it with Open Street Map tiles. Better take the vector data from OSM (see my previous suggestion): you can do more with that. Or, even better, take both :) pc -- Paolo Cavallini, see: *

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-29 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Florian Hillen ha scritto: Concerning my bachelor thesis in geoinformatics I am thinking about developing a useful plugin for QGIS. Using QGIS quiet frequently, I was not missing a feature so far, but maybe anyone of you can imagine a missing functionality!? I appreciate all kinds of

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-29 Thread Yves Jacolin (free)
Le jeudi 29 janvier 2009, Florian Hillen a écrit : Dear mailing list. Concerning my bachelor thesis in geoinformatics I am thinking about developing a useful plugin for QGIS. Using QGIS quiet frequently, I was not missing a feature so far, but maybe anyone of you can imagine a missing

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-29 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Yves Jacolin (free) ha scritto: an open modeler ArcGis feature but as good as the idrisi one ;) Also a frontend to ogr and gdal functions would be very useful. pc -- Paolo Cavallini, see: * http://www.faunalia.it/pc * ___ Qgis-user mailing list

Re: [Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

2009-01-29 Thread Andreas Neumann
yes - a nice gdal frontend for cropping/merging/resampling rasters would be cool. I also thought it may be possible to use the Google maps data from within QGIS. One could probably use a hidden Webkit to make Google think it is a regular webbrowser that is requesting the tiles - and then merge