[Qgis-user] How to get rid of the rest of the World?

[Alexandre Neto]

Hello Marcus,

The feature I believe you are describing is being worked by a few
developer, have a look in this pull request:

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/1254

Maybe it lands in QGIS 2.4 :)

Alexandre Neto



On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:57 PM, kmgkmgkmgkmg . <km.gulver at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone..
>
> I will be going on a little bit here now..
>
> Wonder how to create a clip/mask layer or do something to the same effect?
> More specifically, how to make a rectangular area of longitude and
> latitude coordinates that enables to cut away the area not needed in other
> layers?
>
> Since stuck with a quarter of the World or even the entire World in my
> little project. This question is for shape file layers mostly, have not
> gotten to the .tiff yet. They are not global though larger then needed. So
> a universal solution for both types would be nice.
>
> Is there a python console command to do this?
> Is there a plugin to do this?
> Is there a online service to create such a layer?
> Is it possible from within QGIS?
>
> Have tried the make a rectangle plugin, it cuts out zero features.
> Also tried clipping with a layer of not the right shape and it says that
> they do not have the right projection, even though it looks as they do, and
> end up with a blank layer.
>
> Sure plenty people have this problem, though the forums do not have any
> clear explanations as I found nothing that really explains, even youtube
> got one but that is for regional borders.
>
>  Is there some way of just knocking in the longitude and latitude to do
> this?
> Please assist. Do not get why this should be so difficult.
>
> Why does not QGIS ask first thing which area of the planet you wish to
> work on a project? And then just filter out it automatically when you load
> layer that include more than that? Perhaps this could be a feature of a
> future release?
>
> With hopes for many answers and simple solutions. I repeat just want a
> specified area that easily can be determined by longitude and latitude
> coordinates.
>
> Yours hopefully..
> Marcus
>
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