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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I am thinking about using qgis as a real-time decision support tool and I am looking for some good ideas to ease the process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The case is the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I have proposals from 60 municipalities (out of a possible few hundred), each has 1 proposal. There is only room for 20 proposals to be accepted. One of the criteria will be the geographical spread of the proposals: it is preferred to have 20 proposals sort of evenly spread over the entire country, instead of having the majority of them coming from one region.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>My idea is to show these proposals on a map by colouring the municipalities. As a decision support tool I need the ability to adjust the selection in real-time (during the discussion). The easy way is to just edit the attribute table or to select or deselect specific municipalities. This however requires myself to be present and make changes in qgis as the discussion goes (given that nobody else in the decision group knows how to work with qgis).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>An alternative is to produce a webmap and have each municipality with a proposal have it’s own specific attribute value (but all using the same colour in categorized style), so they all show up in the map-legend, and any group member can easily select or deselect a specific municipality from the legend.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Do you have other ideas how to use a map as a real-time decision support tool?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Quality of the proposal is the main criterium, but in addition to the geographical spread there are others as well, such as variety in projects and the cumulative budget for the selected proposals (the cumulative budget is capped). Since I am not well known with database and calculation options in qgis and how to automatically show the results, I am building an easy to use excel file that will show all this information using precoded calculations, much like a dashboard. Simply selecting and deselecting proposals in an excel interface show you the changes in variety of projects and cumulative budget. This is much easier for the decision team to do themselves, since MS Excel is a well known environment. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Ideally I get the two connected somehow, so selecting and deselecting proposals will alter the results in both the map as in the excel dashboard. However, altering data in excel doesn’t automatically change the results in a qgis map, because they are not connected in real-time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Do you have any ideas how to make a real-time connection between MS Excel and a qgis map? Or information on how to use qgis internal capabilities to calculate certain values based on the selection of proposals? However, the last option will probably still need myself to be present to somehow select or deselect the proposals in qgis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Greetings,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Jeroen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>