[Qgis-psc] outstanding issues

[Anita Graser]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at qgis.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On 13 Nov 2015, at 20:40, Giovanni Manghi <giovanni.manghi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Dear PSC, good afternoon,
>
> during the dev meeting the attention was raised about one outstanding
> issue we have right now in QGIS > 2.8.*.... ftools tools are basically
> broken (we have evidence that at least in some case they return wrong
> results). I think that will make a resume about this meeting (Werner
> if I'm wrong then I can try to do it).
>
> Anyway I would also to raise the attention about two other outstanding
> issues, that are not recent and that I think need to be addressed as
> soon as possible (before the next LTR release) and with enough advance
> to allow test the fixes in a proper way. What am I speaking about?
>
> * qgis still computes wrong areas when OTF is on, see for example:
> http://hub.qgis.org/issues/13209
>
> this is one of the problems with areas, the others being that areas
> are always computed in square meters even if the CRS is in feet, and
> the other is that in virtual columns areas are always computed on a
> plane (ignoring ellipsoid configuration)
>
>
> * shapefile with geometries edited in qgis (deleted, splitted, etc)
> are unusable in other gis packages, see:
> http://hub.qgis.org/issues/11007
>
>
> as I said this are not recent issues, and in my point of view very very
> bad.
>
>
> Andreas could we allocate some funds for taking care of this and releasing
> 2.8.4? It seems like a very good way to spend donated project money.
>


​+1

Best wishes,
Anita​
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