[QGIS-Developer] Profile plugins

[Paolo Cavallini]

Dear developers of profile plugins,
as you know, we do our best to keep the plugin repository tidy and
clean, to reduce duplication which is confusing for the users and makes
management and maintenance more difficult. With >1,000 plugins now, this
is a necessity more than a choice.
A suggestion from Calvin[0] in the qgis-dev mailing list pushed me to
approach you again, to check together the opportunities to improve the
current situation. I would be grateful if you could take the time to
check his suggestions and discuss together the way to come up with a
beautiful, unified plugin. I know this is extra work for you, and that
everybody tends to like his own solutions, but the gains from having an
unified solutions are great from all points of view.
Looking forward for your suggestions.
Cheers.

[0]
> I don't consider "Profile Tool" to be perfect, but I find it useful to
> generate cross sections on DEMS. There are 4 plugins that create
> profiles, but I would say that "Profile Tool" is the easiest to use. The
> plugin "Temporal/Spectral Profile Tool" probably should not have been
> accepted as a QGIS plugin because it is a modified version of the
> Profile Tool. I can't get it to work. That author should have worked
> with the Profile Tool author to make a better plugin. VoGIS Profile Tool
> is also very similar. qProf seems to be a little more advanced.
> Ultimately, it would be nice to merge all 4 into one tool.

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