<!DOCTYPE html><html><head>
<style type="text/css">body { font-family:'DejaVu Sans Mono'; font-size:12px}</style>
</head>
<body>Am 22.10.2015, 13:30 Uhr, schrieb João Gaspar <joao.f.r.gaspar@gmail.com>:<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear QGIS Developers,<br>
<br>
I'm writing on behalf of my employer, a company that has mixed,<br>
proprietary and open source (especially QGIS of course) gis<br>
infrastructure, with qgis being adopted each day a little more.<br>
Actually in our migration path we have found a road blocker: the very<br>
bad performances (and sometimes results) of most of geoprocessing<br>
tools in the vector menu. Yes I know that there are alternatives in<br>
the Processing toolbox, but that is not an option for most of our very<br>
basic users: they need to do simple operations (clips, unions,<br>
intersections, etc.) with usually very large/detailed vectors (usually<br>
shapefiles). In this scenario QGIS usually chokes or is at best very<br>
slow (compared to other gis packages, the ones we are trying to get<br>
rid of).<br>
<br>
What can be done to improve this tools? Rewriting the tools to improve<br>
efficiency and accuracy?<br>
<br>
We available some funds: this is the first time I convince people<br>
above me to put some money in QGIS development, and a decision would<br>
need to me made until the end of November tops, otherwise money will<br>
be used otherwise.<br>
<br>
Please leave advice and feedback.<br><br><br></div>Regards<br></div>João Gaspar</div></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br></div>
</blockquote><div>Hi,</div><div>I'm not a developer, but a simple user following this list.</div><div><br></div><div>My point of view is, that the ftools are just a relict from the past since the processing toolbox was introduced.</div><div>I'm glad that people step up for funding QGIS, but in this particular case, you would better invest your money and time in lifting your "basic" users to a little more advanced users and show them how to use the processing toolbox properly.</div><div><br></div><div>As far as I know, the toolbox is nearly feature complete with the ftools functions, and most of them are so much faster and/or versatile, that I did not touch the ftools for ages.</div><div>Prepare some centrally stored models for reoccuring use cases, and have happy users ;)</div><div><br></div><div>Just my two cents</div><div>Bernd</div><div><br></div><br><br><div id="M2Signature"><div>-- </div><div>Bernd Vogelgesang<br>Siedlerstraße 2<br>91083 Baiersdorf/Igelsdorf<br>Tel: 09133-825374</div></div></body></html>