[Qgis-user] Re: Qgis-user Digest, Vol 37, Issue 47

Mauricio de Paulo mauricio.dev at gmail.com
Sat Mar 28 13:57:17 PDT 2009


I've written a RGB composition plugin using virtual raster and gdal.
Should I rewrite it to 1.0?

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>    1. Re: Feature requests (Nikos Alexandris)
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>    4. Re: Re: [Qgis-developer] Feature requests (Maxim Dubinin)
>    5. Re: [Qgis-developer] Feature requests (Agustin Lobo)
>    6. Re: on-the-fly reprojection of raster maps (Jachym Cepicky)
>    7. Re: Python does not seem to be working on my  Mac (Sebastian Cruz)
>    8. Re: Python does not seem to be working on my  Mac
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:39:31 +0100
> From: Nikos Alexandris <nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Feature requests
> To: Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com>
> Cc: qgis-user <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>,	qgis-developer
> 	<qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
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> Agustin:
> > I've added the following items to my wishlist
> > (http://sites.google.com/site/eospansite/myqgiswishlist)
> 
> > I wait for feed-back before adding them as tickets:
> >   24. When opening a layer, add it to the position below the layer
> >       selected in the legend (not always to the top)
> >   25. When creating a group in the legend, add it to the position below
> >       the selected layer (not always to the bottom)
> >   26. RGB color composite from individual files.
> >   27. RGB color composite from layers within a group in the legend
> >   28. Color (or grey) key for vector and single-band raster layers
> >   29. Attribute table and tips for single-band raster layers (i.e., for
> >       land-cover raster layers)
> 
> Agus and all, I want to add one more wish:
> 
> * Ability to clone/duplicate an already opened layer by right click on a
> layer. This is, in my humble opinion, more convenient to make quick
> changes on the appearance (i.e. of a vector) and have different "looks"
> of the same map than adding a layer again and re-applying whatever
> symbology properties the user wants to.
> 
> Kind regards, Nikos
> ---
> 
> P.S. @Agus: since you have all these wishes in one place, you could add
> the above as well, given of course that you see it as a required
> feature.
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:28:50 -0600
> From: Will Muir <will at mtintouch.net>
> Subject: [Qgis-user] Python does not seem to be working on my  Mac
> To: Qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
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> Hello using Qgis version 1.0.0 does not seem to include python  
> support.  Was it built with python support?  I am using the all  
> included package, if that makes any difference.  Starting it from the  
> command line it does not print any python related errors.
> 
> Thanks for any advice,
> 
> Will
> 
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:40:48 +0000
> From: Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Feature requests
> To: Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com>
> Cc: qgis-user <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>,	qgis-developer
> 	<qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
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> 2009/3/28 Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com>:
> > I've added the following items to my wishlist
> > (http://sites.google.com/site/eospansite/myqgiswishlist)
> > I wait for feed-back before adding them as tickets:
> >
> > 24. When opening a layer, add it to the position below the layer
> >   selected in the legend (not always to the top)
> 
> -1 - when I add a layer I want to be able to see it, and if it's not
> at the top I might not!
> 
> > 25. When creating a group in the legend, add it to the position below
> >   the selected layer (not always to the bottom)
> 
> -1 - but unlike the current behaviour I'd like new groups to start at
> the top (so that things added to them are visible!)
> 
>  Another idea would be to have an 'add layer here' option on the
> context menu of the layer legend. Currently adding a new layer to a
> group is a two-step thing - load the layer, then drag into the group.
> This could be done in one with a 'add layer here' option. Obviously it
> would then have to ask if you want a raster layer, vector layer,
> postgis layer, wms layer etc etc...
> 
> > 26. RGB color composite from individual files.
> > 27. RGB color composite from layers within a group in the legend
> 
>  Not sure I understand these two - you want to take three individual
> rasters and create an RGB image raster from them?
> 
> > 28. Color (or grey) key for vector and single-band raster layers
> 
>  On the Print Composer? Or in the layer legend?
> 
> > 29. Attribute table and tips for single-band raster layers (i.e., for
> >   land-cover raster layers)
> 
>  Are you talking about categorical rasters here? Where 1=water,
> 2=agriculture, 3=urban for example? What file formats support
> alphanumeric labels for categories? Or would the user have to enter
> them in Qgis themselves?
> 
> Barry
> 
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:57:41 -0500
> From: Maxim Dubinin <sim at gis-lab.info>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Feature requests
> To: Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>
> Cc: qgis-user <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>,	qgis-developer
> 	<qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
> Message-ID: <758956927.20090328135741 at gis-lab.info>
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> 
> >> 24. When opening a layer, add it to the position below the layer
> >>   selected in the legend (not always to the top)
> 
> BR> -1 - when I add a layer I want to be able to see it, and if it's not
> BR> at the top I might not!
> 
> When this is happening in ArcGIS, polygonal layers are being added to the
> bottom of the list, then lines, then points at the top. This is smart,
> especially when you load 10+ layers at once. Last layer is then
> selected, so you won't miss where it is now.
> 
> Maxim
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:00:46 +0100
> From: Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Feature requests
> To: Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>
> Cc: qgis-user <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>,	qgis-developer
> 	<qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
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> Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> > 2009/3/28 Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com>:
> >   
> >> I've added the following items to my wishlist
> >> (http://sites.google.com/site/eospansite/myqgiswishlist)
> >> I wait for feed-back before adding them as tickets:
> >>
> >>  24. When opening a layer, add it to the position below the layer
> >>     selected in the legend (not always to the top)
> >>     
> >
> > -1 - when I add a layer I want to be able to see it, and if it's not
> > at the top I might not!
> >
> >   
> >>  25. When creating a group in the legend, add it to the position below
> >>     the selected layer (not always to the bottom)
> >>     
> >
> > -1 - but unlike the current behaviour I'd like new groups to start at
> > the top (so that things added to them are visible!)
> >
> >   
> Don't understand your -1, at most should be a 0: these features would 
> not prevent you or anybody else
> to get the new layer opened at the top (just have the first layer 
> selected ),
> or the group created at the bottom (just have the last layer selected), 
> which is the
> current behavior. Instead you would let other users organize their set 
> of layers (which often is long)
> in a different way. Don't see any reason to impose any particular 
> preference.
> 
> >  Another idea would be to have an 'add layer here' option on the
> > context menu of the layer legend. Currently adding a new layer to a
> > group is a two-step thing - load the layer, then drag into the group.
> > This could be done in one with a 'add layer here' option. Obviously it
> > would then have to ask if you want a raster layer, vector layer,
> > postgis layer, wms layer etc etc...
> >
> >   
>  From a user point of view, this would be very similar to what I'm 
> suggesting, just
> more complicated to develop. My suggestion is simpler: the layer goes to 
> wherever
> you have selected in the list of layers  (that we wrongly call legend)
> 
> >>  26. RGB color composite from individual files.
> >>  27. RGB color composite from layers within a group in the legend
> >>     
> >
> >  Not sure I understand these two - you want to take three individual
> > rasters and create an RGB image raster from them?
> >
> >   
> Most satellite imagery comes with bands in independent files. Having the 
> ability of
> displaying them as color composites would be handy. I know this can be 
> done through
> a vrt file, but you have to go through the step of gdal_merge.py
> May be 27 could obviate 26 (27 is very similar to the grass imagery group)
> 
> >>  28. Color (or grey) key for vector and single-band raster layers
> >>     
> >
> >  On the Print Composer? Or in the layer legend?
> >
> >   
> In both. Having a pseudocolor  layer displayed with no key for the 
> colors is of very limited utility.
> >>  29. Attribute table and tips for single-band raster layers (i.e., for
> >>     land-cover raster layers)
> >>     
> >
> >  Are you talking about categorical rasters here? Where 1=water,
> > 2=agriculture, 3=urban for example? What file formats support
> > alphanumeric labels for categories? Or would the user have to enter
> > them in Qgis themselves?
> >   
> Don't know about formats, probably this should be a qgis feature. But 
> displaying
> a landcover map and seeing the actual alfanumeric categories as tips and 
> in the
> color key (ref. 28) would be most useful. Seeing "water" displayed as 
> tip is much
> more useful than seeing "1".
> 
> Agus
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:08:53 +0100
> From: Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] on-the-fly reprojection of raster maps
> To: Florian Hillen <fhillen at uni-osnabrueck.de>
> Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
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> Hi,
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 01:14:37PM +0100, Florian Hillen wrote:
> > Hi Jachym,
> > 
> > I'm currently working on a plugin to reproject a raster file "on the fly".
> > This means in detail: load input raster -> define output name -> choose
> > projection -> reproject (and add).
> > Unfortunately gdalwarp can only warp to GTiff (the QGIS-Georeferencer and
> > the console-based fwtools only can warp to GTiff either). I'm currently
> > trying to find a solution for that, but right now I'm not very confident
> > of that.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Florian
> 
> Hmm, I'm not very familiar with this problematic, however, it would be
> IMHO nice - from the users point of view - to perform "real" OTF
> reporjection: 
> 
> 1) define the project projection
> 2) load the map in different coordinate system
> 3) display in project's projection
> 
> so no new map would be created
> 
> this could imho work, if the pyramids would be create, the demands on
> the system resources would not be that hight (?)
> 
> jachym
> 
> > 
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm just goint through the QGIS manual and wanted to ask, if there will
> > > be support for OTF projection of raster data in upcomming 1.1.x
> > > branch? According to QGIS Manual, in 1.0.x branch, only vectors can by
> > > OTF projected.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Jachym
> > > --
> > > Jachym Cepicky
> > > e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com
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