[Qgis-user] qgis and saga (future) integration hypothesis

[Agustin Lobo]

This sounds like music to my ears!
I think that the start point could be just
using the python console in QGIS, as
SAGA commands can be run through python,
although the saga-python page is now empty:
http://saga-gis.wiki.sourceforge.net/Executing+SAGA+Modules+with+the+Python+Interface+

Perhaps we could contact the authors (http://www.saga-gis.org/en/index.html)

This is interesting to see saga capabilities:
http://spatial-analyst.net/wiki/index.php?title=Analysis_of_DEMs_in_R%2BILWIS/SAGA

Agus

G. Allegri wrote:
>
>
> 2009/7/11 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it 
> <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>>
>
>     Carlos Guâno Grohmann ha scritto:
>
>     > The latest SAGA CVS is stable on linux, some bugs were fixed, and it
>     > worked really well on my tests.
>     >
>     > RSAGA now also works on Linux, I helped Alexander Brenning on
>     testing it.
>
>     Hi Carlos and Giovanni.
>     Thanks for the feedback. I see that they now have unofficial
>     Ubuntu packages
>     https://launchpad.net/~johanvdw/+archive/ppa
>     <https://launchpad.net/%7Ejohanvdw/+archive/ppa>
>     Could you please ask the SAGA devs to help preparing a proper Debian
>     package, and possibly to upload it to Debian archives (of course
>     splitting out core and GUI)? This way it would be much easier and
>     efficient to test it, and therefore to start working on a possible
>     integration.
>     Also, a proper project management would help a lot - I found it scary
>     the statement:
>     "Best Way To Get Help
>     Unfortunately, this project hasn't indicated the best way to get help.
>     Contact the project's administrators to find out how to get help. "
>     at
>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/saga-gis/support
>
>
> In the next couple of weeks I'll begin working on this. The first step 
> will be the creation of some wiki pages to start gathering ideas and 
> contributions.
>
>  
>
>
>     How do you see an eventual plugin? Just a wrapper that calls SAGA
>     commands, or something more complex?> 
>
>
> I don't know yet. The first thought was simply a python bridge, but 
> the best would be working at the data structures level to permit a low 
> level integration.
> QGIS still needs some foundamental development on the raster side. It 
> could be a good occasion to work on both the tasks.
>
> Could we start a dedicated wiki page?
>  
>
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