[Qgis-developer] New feature's needed, create geometry from attribute

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi, what about NumericalVertexEdit plugin? If I understand correctly, it
do what you need.

2013/6/30 Régis Haubourg <regis.haubourg at eau-adour-garonne.fr>:
> Hi all,
> After some training courses here, a very common use case is not satisfied
> easily:
>
> The only entry to create geometry from text (XY or WKT) is the delimited
> text plugin.
> It appears that having a separate fonction "create point" like in Mapinfo or
> Arcgis would be really handy, and could avoid the need of csv import.
>
> I was thinking of making a plugin for this, but I'm wondering what is the
> best approach.
>  1- duplicate layer into a memory layer. Easy, requires MemoryLayerSaver to
> make data persistent, is not dynamic with datasource.
>  2- create a pluginLayer? I'm not sure it will do what I need. I would like
> the project to keep a reference to the datasource (xls, whatever ogr/
> postgres/ sqlite/ spatialite) and replace or create geometry on load by
> reading XY columns or WKT column.
>
> Is that feasable in a plugin,  as a proof of concept, or does it require
> core classes modifications (C++ work , so I won't do it by myself)
>
> Thanks for your tips,
> Régis

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Alexander Bruy