Re: [Qgis-user] SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released

2012-04-02 Thread Victor Olaya
Please remember also that it is possible to use rasters in GRASS without importing them, but just registering them (r.external), with insignificant loss of performances. Thus, we can more or less forget about grass rasters in their native format, for most of the uses. All the best. --

Re: [Qgis-user] SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released

2012-04-02 Thread Paulo van Breugel
Hi Victor, A great idea, the original one :-). I am sure you are right the way data is organized in GRASS is scary for new users. It took me some time before I got used to GRASS and its way of data organization. And although I like it very much now, it is a steep learning curve. So this

Re: [Qgis-user] SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released

2012-03-31 Thread Carlos Grohmann
Hi, I couldn't find the sextant plugin in qgis 1.7 on mac os x. is it on http://mapserver.sk/~wonder/qgis/plugins-sandbox.xml? this repo is giving connection errors. best Carlos -- Prof. Carlos Henrique Grohmann Institute of Geosciences - Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil - Digital Terrain

Re: [Qgis-user] SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released

2012-03-31 Thread Gary Sherman
On Mar 31, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Carlos Grohmann wrote: Hi, I couldn't find the sextant plugin in qgis 1.7 on mac os x. is it on http://mapserver.sk/~wonder/qgis/plugins-sandbox.xml? this repo is giving connection errors. best It is in the new plugin repository

Re: [Qgis-user] SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released

2012-03-31 Thread Carlos Grohmann
Found it! thanks -- Prof. Carlos Henrique Grohmann Institute of Geosciences - Univ. of São Paulo, Brazil - Digital Terrain Analysis | GIS | Remote Sensing - http://carlosgrohmann.com (http://carlosgrohmann.com/) Can’t stop the signal. Sent with Sparrow

Re: [Qgis-user] SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released

2012-03-30 Thread Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Hi Would it be possible to give a 10 000 mile overview of what Sextante does? There is quite a mixture of skill levels in this group and I for one am certainly not well versed into all the tools of the trade. I appreciate the announcement as it provides exposure to possible future tools that could

Re: [Qgis-user] SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released

2012-03-30 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 30/03/2012 12:24, Gerhardus Geldenhuis ha scritto: Would it be possible to give a 10 000 mile overview of what Sextante does? There is Hi Gerhardus. I think for now things are still a bit on the move. Please stay tuned, and soon you'll have more info. In a few words, sextante is a tool to

Re: [Qgis-user] SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released

2012-03-30 Thread Victor Olaya
Gerhardus Thanks for the comment You will get a quick overview at our website www.sextantegis.com There is an intro video in the main page that is in fact like a tv add :) I did not mention it, because I had no time to update it and include that there is a QGIS version, so better not to point

Re: [Qgis-user] SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released

2012-03-30 Thread G. Allegri
I've just tested a dozen of SAGA algorithms, and they worked smooth! ;) (ok, I admit, I'm on Windows :D) @Gerhardus, Victor will be able to give you much more informations in the near future. Sextante is like a toolbox, where pieces of functionalities are kept together. It can leavarage external

Re: [Qgis-user] SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released

2012-03-30 Thread Paulo van Breugel
Great work! I am trying this on Linux, running in the same problem of wrong permission on the saga_batch_job.sh as reported before (I sent a separate email to the mailing list, having missed your announcement, sorry for that). One remark / request on concerning GRASS; as the GRASS algorithms

Re: [Qgis-user] SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released

2012-03-30 Thread Victor Olaya
One remark / request on concerning GRASS; as the GRASS algorithms are already available through the GRASS toolbox, the main thing for me would be to enable the use of GRASS raster and vector layers in all the SAGA (and other) modules. I assume this will be part of the working version you