Re: [Qgis-user] copy layer to scratch

2018-09-01 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi John, Am Sa, 1.09.2018, 21:43 schrieb John Layt: > > Been meaning to > clean it up submit it the the repo at some stage, but for now it's at > https://plugins.lparchaeology.com/qgis/plugins.xml and called ARK Clone. > Simply right-click on the layer and the clone option is in the pop-up > menu.

Re: [Qgis-user] copy layer to scratch

2018-09-01 Thread John Layt
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 at 14:02, Tobias Wendorff < tobias.wendo...@tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > Hi there, > > is there a sane way to copy layers to memory? Right now, I'm using > "Merge vector layers" for this. > > Best regards, > Tobias > I took the only sane route and wrote a plugin. I'm told by my co

Re: [Qgis-user] copy layer to scratch

2018-09-01 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi Frank, Am Fr, 31.08.2018, 08:46 schrieb Frank Broniewski: > There's also the "Save selected features" processing module, you could > select all features in your layer and use the module to copy things > over to a new layer This function got renamed to "extract by selection" (or something simil

Re: [Qgis-user] copy layer to scratch

2018-09-01 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi Nyall, Am Fr, 31.08.2018, 23:09 schrieb Nyall Dawson: > I thought I was the only one who did silly hacks to make a in-memory > copy. I've got 64 GiB of RAM... so why not use this :-) But I think, most of the non-native processing tools need SHP or GPKG ... but dumping from RAM to SSD is quick

Re: [Qgis-user] copy layer to scratch

2018-09-01 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi Renato, Am Do, 30.08.2018, 17:52 schrieb Renato Saboya: > Not sure if this is what you want, but you could try: > - Selecting the desired features; > - Edit > Copy features > - Edit > Paste features as... > Temporary scratch layer Yeah, that's okay for a normal workflow. But must of the time I

Re: [Qgis-user] copy layer to scratch

2018-08-31 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 at 23:04, Tobias Wendorff wrote: > > Hi there, > > is there a sane way to copy layers to memory? Right now, I'm using > "Merge vector layers" for this. I thought I was the only one who did silly hacks to make a in-memory copy. My favourite way is to use the "assign projection"

Re: [Qgis-user] copy layer to scratch

2018-08-30 Thread Frank Broniewski
kbroniewski.com -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Qgis-user Im Auftrag von Tobias Wendorff Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. August 2018 15:02 An: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Betreff: [Qgis-user] copy layer to scratch Hi there, is there a sane way to copy layers to memory? Right now, I'm using &

Re: [Qgis-user] copy layer to scratch

2018-08-30 Thread Renato Saboya
Not sure if this is what you want, but you could try: - Selecting the desired features; - Edit > Copy features - Edit > Paste features as... > Temporary scratch layer (wording is probably a bit off, since my QGIS is not in English). Cheers, *Renato T. de Saboya* Universidade Federal de Santa Cata

[Qgis-user] copy layer to scratch

2018-08-30 Thread Tobias Wendorff
Hi there, is there a sane way to copy layers to memory? Right now, I'm using "Merge vector layers" for this. Best regards, Tobias ___ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubsc