[Qgis-user] [External] Zoom QGIS to specific location by command line

[Loren Dawe]

Hi All,

Finally had time to look into this. Command line that works is as follows:

qgis --project f:\qgis\WorldMap.qgs --extent -119.270002,46.195891,-119.263714,46.200514

where: 
- extent parameters are xmin,ymin,xmax,ymax
- project CRS units must match extent coordinates

Loren

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Loren Dawe - Senior Geomatics Specialist
Terra Remote Sensing Inc.
250.656.0931

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Flannigan <mflan at mflan.com> 
Sent: Sunday, April 9, 2023 8:47 AM
To: Loren Dawe <Loren.Dawe at terraremote.com>
Subject: [External] [Qgis-user] Zoom QGIS to specific location by command line


How did this work out for you?
I am also interested in doing this.
Can you give an example command line argument?


Mike Flannigan
Houston, TX
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On 4/5/23 14:00, qgis-user-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
> Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 23:51:14 +0000
> From: Loren Dawe<Loren.Dawe at terraremote.com> 
> To:"qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org"  <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [Qgis-user] Zoom QGIS to specific location by command line 
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> Hi,
> I would like to zoom QGIS to a specific location (lat/lon coordinate) or area (lat/lon bounding box) using a command line argument generated outside of QGIS. I have looked through the available command line arguments and cant see anything that will allow this.
>
> Does anyone know of a method that this could be accomplished?
>
> I could generate a disk file containing the coordinates in any documented format if that is a solution (tried to use the Google Earth plugin and send a KML file but that doesn't work from the command line).
>
> QGIS 3.20.3
> Windows 10
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Loren.