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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>When designing field experiments having the ability to duplicate and rotate or move around a set of points or other features would be very useful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Micha Silver [mailto:micha@arava.co.il] <br><b>Sent:</b> 30 May 2012 08:41<br><b>To:</b> giovanni.manghi@faunalia.pt<br><b>Cc:</b> Agustin.Lobo@ictja.csic.es; qgis-user<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] Rotate feature<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 29/05/2012 16:45, Giovanni Manghi wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><pre>Hi,<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 15:04 +0300, Micha Silver wrote:<o:p></o:p></pre><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>On 29/05/2012 14:23, Agustin Lobo wrote: <o:p></o:p></pre><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre>Is it possible to rotate a grop of selected points<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>in a similar way as it is done with "move feature"?<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><pre>If you want to use spatialite, have a look at:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://www.faunalia.com/content/geoprocess-geometries-within-your-database-spatialite-example">http://www.faunalia.com/content/geoprocess-geometries-within-your-database-spatialite-example</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Also PostGIS has a full featured ST_Rotate() function.<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Giovanni<br>Thanks for the response. <br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>yes it can be done inside the DB but I guess that for most of the users<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>having such tool in the editing toolbar would be great.<o:p></o:p></pre><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>I recently had to do some digitizing work (starting from an already<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>existing work) to do a land use map and I also felt the lack of tools<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>like:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>* fill hole/fill space (space between polygons)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>* add ring+automatic fill<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>* a tool to help remove overlapped areas<o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal>These are all probably more useful (or "in demand") than a tool to rotate a features. I thought this specific case that Agus brought up would be quite rare in general geoprocessing, so it's good to see there is a procedure that can handle it, even tho' it's not a one-click GUI tools.<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Just in case I already filed tickets with feature requests.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>cheers<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>-- Giovanni --<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>This mail was received via Mail-SeCure System.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Micha Silver<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>052-3665918<o:p></o:p></pre></div><p><br>
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