Re: [Qgis-user] New Features in Shape Tools 3.2.0

2018-09-24 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 06:49, C Hamilton wrote: > > Nyall, > > Thanks for your confidence and encouragement. I would be interested, but > don't know where to begin. Shape Tools relies on geographiclib which is > slightly more accurate than Vincinty. Geographlib is not a library that is > includ

Re: [Qgis-user] New Features in Shape Tools 3.2.0

2018-09-24 Thread C Hamilton
Nyall, Thanks for your confidence and encouragement. I would be interested, but don't know where to begin. Shape Tools relies on geographiclib which is slightly more accurate than Vincinty. Geographlib is not a library that is included with the OSGeo distribution. However, as of the past several y

Re: [Qgis-user] New Features in Shape Tools 3.2.0

2018-09-20 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 at 05:58, C Hamilton wrote: > If you have any suggestions I would welcome them. Shape Tools is fantastic, and plugs a much needed gap in QGIS core functionality. Lovely work! Can I strongly encourage you to investigate porting some of these features/fixes over to QGIS core?

[Qgis-user] New Features in Shape Tools 3.2.0

2018-09-18 Thread C Hamilton
The latest version of Shape Tools has several nice new features. 1) *Geodesic Measurement Layer *will take a line or polygon layer and for each of the geometries calculate the geodesic distances of each feature. The user can choose whether each line segment is measured and output as a line measure