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<p>Thank you Marco! Much appreciated.</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
<p>On 2015-11-24 16:36, Marco Hugentobler wrote:</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi all<br /><br /> I had a detailed look with the debugger at what happens in the different versions. It turned out fTools does indeed handle geometry collections, but assumed a geometry collection has wkb type 'unknown' (which was true <= 2.8, but now geometry collections are not unknown anymore). Commit <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/594fafe73b80d91d94b962c2e51aea0b0168a08a">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/594fafe73b80d91d94b962c2e51aea0b0168a08a</a> should solve the issue and bring back the old behaviour.<br /><br /> Regards,<br /> Marco<br /><br /> <br /><br /> On 24.11.2015 11:29, Marco Hugentobler wrote:</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24.11.2015 11:13, Matthias Kuhn wrote:</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/24/2015 11:01 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Alessandro, Matthias<br /><br /> >Is there no requirement for multi types?<br /><br /> Afaik, the problem for f-tools are not the multi types, but only the geometry collections (containing geometries with different shape type). In my experience, if geos returns a geometry collection, it usually contains one 'expected' geometry and the others are slivers (@strk, please correct me if wrong).</div>
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<br /> I was mostly thinking about collections that contain a multitype with several parts which are not considered slivers. This seems to be a very valid scenario.</blockquote>
<br /> It is, but it was also not handled by f-tools <= 2.8.<br /><br />
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br /> >Based on what indicator should be chosen what to extract? Try polygons first, if there are none try lines, if there are none take points? <br /><br /> One possibility would be to pass the expected shapetype (Point / Line / Polygon) to the function and take the best candidate (e.g. longest line, largest polygon area).</div>
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<br /> Before the geometry changes, the algorithms were able to provide the results without this additional information. How was that done?</blockquote>
<br /> Not sure. Maybe the logic in the geos -> QgsGeometry conversion handled the collections differently.<br /><br /><br /> Regards,<br /> Marco<br /><br /><br /><br />
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br /> >How much effort (in time) do you think is required to implement this fix?<br /><br /> Difficult to estimate. It seems straightforward to implement the extraction function. Then it needs to be called by the f-tools internally and be tested with a few examples. If unit tests are required (as mentioned by Alessandro), this seems to be the most time consuming task to me. </div>
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Unit Tests for processing are on my todo list anyway (I think as a psc member you should have voted for that ;) )<br /><br /> Matthias<br />
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br /> Regards,<br /> Marco<br /><br /> On 24.11.2015 10:42, Matthias Kuhn wrote:</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/24/2015 09:28 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi<br /><br /> >ad issue 1: update fTools to warn users when some features cause problems<br /> >ad issue 2: quick fix fTools to convert geometry collections to single geometry types<br /><br /> A function that takes a geometry type and extracts the longest line / the largest polygon / the first point from the geometry collection should be straightforward to do.</div>
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<br /> Is there no requirement for multi types?<br /> Based on what indicator should be chosen what to extract? Try polygons first, if there are none try lines, if there are none take points?<br /><br />
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br /> >These fixes/updates would be made available as fTools updates via the plugin installer asap<br /><br /> If the fix does not take too long, we probably don't need a warning at all.</div>
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<br /> How much effort (in time) do you think is required to implement this fix?<br /><br /> Regards,<br /> Matthias<br /><br />
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"> <br /> Regards,<br /> Marco<br /><br /> On 23.11.2015 21:35, Anita Graser wrote:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">If you are following the psc list, you've probably seen the thread discussing current shortcomings of ftools (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2015-November/003623.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2015-November/003623.html</a>)</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">In short, the key issues are:</div>
<div class="gmail_default">1. When ftools encounter issues with certain features, warning messages get written to the log but this is largely hidden from users since they would actively have to actively monitor the log. The problematic features are then missing from the results but this is not always obvious. </div>
<div class="gmail_default">2. The above issue is more common now (since 2.10) since underlying libraries more often (and correctly so) produce geometry collections as outputs. These geometry collections are not handled well by the current ftools code which is much older.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">To address these issues, the following suggestions have been made so far: <br /> ad issue 1: update fTools to warn users when some features cause problems<br /> ad issue 2: quick fix fTools to convert geometry collections to single geometry types</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">For the warnings, there's already a first PR draft <a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/2432">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/2432</a> which needs to be fleshed out. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default">These fixes/updates would be made available as fTools updates via the plugin installer asap. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default">If you have ideas how to handle this efficiently or have already implemented code that addresses similar issues, let us know. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default">It would be good to have a quick discussion in order to be able to provide improvements fast.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">Best wishes,</div>
<div class="gmail_default">Anita</div>
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