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    <div>Perhaps you could be interested in our plugin:<br></div><div>RT QSpider.<br><br>It create a shapefile from a dbf with coordinate on two field int or textual.<br><br></div><div>The plugin is actually for 1.8 only, bt we plan early to evolve to qgis 2.0<br>
<br></div><div>Regards,<br><br></div><div>
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      On 01/07/2013 09:48, HAUBOURG wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">Hi all, let me precise the need:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">Numerical vertex edit and wkt plugin are
            usefull when dealing with one geometry.
            <u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">Geom calculation with field update can create
            eventually a WKB, but it’s absolutely not user friendly, and
            there is actually no way to load a layer from that in a file
            based layer. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">Think of a user getting a excel or calc
            spreadsheet with XY inside. The only way to import it
            directly as a spatial layer (not talking about using sqlite
            or postgis.. too complex for common users not even aware of
            data source types) is too export it to csv and import it
            with delimited text plugin.
            <u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">That is always a pain since no tool exports csv
            in the same way when dealing with numerical / text types,
            decimal separators…
            <u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">XLS, calc, dbf do type correctly fields and
            avoid any file conversion (if no formula or problem in field
            names today). Importing directly the datasource, and being
            able to spatialize it afterwards , only if needed (join pure
            attribute data is also a use case), would be nice.
            <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">So is the need for my corp.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">My question : I would like to avoid data
            duplication (again) , is that feasible using pluginlayerType
            in python API todayu, or do I need some core modifications ?
            Of course, that need to be reloaded correctly with a project
            file.
            <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">Régis<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">Cordialement,</span><span style="color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">Régis
            Haubourg</span><span style="color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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            Régis Haubourg<br>
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            Département des Systèmes d'Information (DCSI)<br>
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            90 rue du Férétra,<br>
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            Mail: <a href="mailto:regis.haubourg@eau-adour-garonne.fr" target="_blank">regis.haubourg@eau-adour-garonne.fr</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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          <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Papyrus;color:navy">Accédez
            aux données sur l'eau  :</span><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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          <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://adour-garonne.eaufrance.fr/" target="_blank">http://adour-garonne.eaufrance.fr/</a>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">De :</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
                  kimaidou [<a href="mailto:kimaidou@gmail.com" target="_blank">mailto:kimaidou@gmail.com</a>]
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                  <b>Envoyé :</b> dimanche 30 juin 2013 22:00<br>
                  <b>À :</b> Anita Graser<br>
                  <b>Cc :</b> Alexander Bruy; qgis-developer; HAUBOURG<br>
                  <b>Objet :</b> Re: [Qgis-developer] New feature's
                  needed, create geometry from attribute<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hi<u></u><u></u></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal">What about using the field calculator
                ? I think I have seen a method in the "geometry" tools :
                something like geomfromwkt ? If needed, we could simply
                add a way to modifiy the features geometry with the
                field calculator, and it will do the trick. <u></u><u></u></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal">2013/6/30 Anita Graser <<a href="mailto:anitagraser@gmx.at" target="_blank">anitagraser@gmx.at</a>><u></u><u></u></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal">The Quick WKT plugin does something
                  very similar.<u></u><u></u></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888">Anita<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 3:06
                      PM, Alexander Bruy <<a href="mailto:alexander.bruy@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexander.bruy@gmail.com</a>>
                      wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Hi, what about
                      NumericalVertexEdit plugin? If I understand
                      correctly, it<br>
                      do what you need.<br>
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                      2013/6/30 Régis Haubourg <<a href="mailto:regis.haubourg@eau-adour-garonne.fr" target="_blank">regis.haubourg@eau-adour-garonne.fr</a>>:<u></u><u></u></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal">> Hi all,<br>
                        > After some training courses here, a very
                        common use case is not satisfied<br>
                        > easily:<br>
                        ><br>
                        > The only entry to create geometry from text
                        (XY or WKT) is the delimited<br>
                        > text plugin.<br>
                        > It appears that having a separate fonction
                        "create point" like in Mapinfo or<br>
                        > Arcgis would be really handy, and could
                        avoid the need of csv import.<br>
                        ><br>
                        > I was thinking of making a plugin for this,
                        but I'm wondering what is the<br>
                        > best approach.<br>
                        >  1- duplicate layer into a memory layer.
                        Easy, requires MemoryLayerSaver to<br>
                        > make data persistent, is not dynamic with
                        datasource.<br>
                        >  2- create a pluginLayer? I'm not sure it
                        will do what I need. I would like<br>
                        > the project to keep a reference to the
                        datasource (xls, whatever ogr/<br>
                        > postgres/ sqlite/ spatialite) and replace
                        or create geometry on load by<br>
                        > reading XY columns or WKT column.<br>
                        ><br>
                        > Is that feasable in a plugin,  as a proof
                        of concept, or does it require<br>
                        > core classes modifications (C++ work , so I
                        won't do it by myself)<br>
                        ><br>
                        > Thanks for your tips,<br>
                        > Régis<br>
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                        --<u></u><u></u></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888">Alexander
                        Bruy</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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