[Qgis-user] Bugs, release of 1.7 and release of 1.7 as beta

[Andreas Neumann]

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Hi,

Thank you for your interesting report. Sounds like a lot of work - the
digitizing! Interesting to hear that a rotated view would be useful for
digitizing.

What I would wonder:

what features specifically in the print composer are missing?

I often hear people complain about missing features in the print
composer, but I think that at the current trunk version it is already
quite powerful and maybe the people just aren't aware about some
functionality. I think that e.g. the legend is already quite powerful,
the only thing missing is maybe a multi-column mode. You can draw lines,
arrows, circles, rectangles. You can set text labels, import graphics.
The grid lines and scalebars are quite complete.

What specifically is currently missing in the print composer?

Thanks,
Andreas

On 06/06/2011 11:41 PM, . wrote:
> On 6/6/2011 8:18 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>> Il 06/06/2011 15:15, . ha scritto:
>>
>>> What major features remain to be finished?
>> Major features are never finished, by definition ;)
>> New ideas are coming regularly.
>> What is needed now is, IMHO:
>> - bigfixing
>> - bugfixing ;)
>> - automatic testing
>> - polishing (symbology and other stuff)
>> - infrastructure (central repo for plugins, styles, symbols, with user
>> rating and
>> comments, etc.).
>> All the best.
> I have completed a major QGIS project (see Encyclopedic Map of Baghdad
> at Amazon.com). I found that the map composer module wasn't strong
> enough for my needs. I exported each layer to Inkscape and did my final
> composition by hand. The only other feature I found that would be
> helpful would be the ability to rotate the orientation of the screen.
> I've seen requests for this feature poo-pooed before so I'm a little
> reluctant to bring the subject up. People digitizing objects would
> benefit most from this. Why? It has to do with the way human eyesight
> works. We expect to see a horizon. It is a real challenge to digitize
> things set at an angle and do it properly. It is more stressful to
> follow objects oriented at an angle which force the natural tendency to
> rotate one's head to the left or right to give the impression that the
> objects being focused on are on a "horizon". If we could rotate the
> screen to match the orientation to that of the group of objects being
> worked on we could have our horizon align with the bottom of the screen
> with the sides of the screen providing a reference angle of 90 deg. Not
> having to constantly crane one's head makes the digitizing process much
> easier. I did a lot of digitizing in Google Earth before they
> depreciated the UI and found the ability to rotate the screen very
> helpful. The options in the CAD Console are very helpful in this respect
> ie auto ortho. More CAD-like features to aid digitizing objects that
> share the same orientation, like streets and houses would be helpful. I
> realize this would be a major programming challenge so I only mention it
> in passing. Obviously we can work with the tools there now. On my
> project, I digitized 42,000 polygons. Almost a year's worth of work,
> many 7 day weeks, sometimes 14 hrs per day. Anything to make digitizing
> easier should be considered.
> 
> Now I'm onto another project and use QGIS every day. I wish I were in a
> position to offer programming aid. The best I can do is offer user
> feedback and praise QGIS whenever possible (see Slashgeo.org).
> 
> Yeha!
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