[Aust-NZ] QGIS Install issue XPsp2 was NZ Towns

Mon Nov 15 17:30:42 EST 2010

I retried it this am, it installs, but fails to start.

The application failed to initilize properly (oxc0150002)

XPSP2

I tried the fixes suggested in the first 2 google results page for this error, ie installing both MS Visual C Runtime 2005 and 2008, to no avail. Installing the 2008 runtime asks to repair 2005. I also tried 2008SP1. There was also some mention of proj.dll which theres no trace of on my system.

What are the dlls you refer to?

Peter

Alister Hood wrote:
> QGIS: Oh, of course.  It'll be a missing msvcr80.dll or 71 or 90 or
> something similar.
> I thought the instructions did tell you to install this (and where
> from), but looking now I can't see any reference to it, which is a bit
> of a concern.
>
> If I had the choice I'd run Linux, but generally I find QGIS works fine
> on Windows.  The most common problem I've had is actually other software
> installing various open source libraries into system32, which override
> the versions installed in QGIS' directory, preventing QGIS or a plugin
> from functioning.
>
> Alister
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:aust-nz-
>> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Peter
>> Sent: Monday, 15 November 2010 5:32 p.m.
>> To: aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] NZ Towns
>>
>> Its an almagamation of the sources i named, geonames, linz electoral,
>> and google geocoder for the coords, with a bit of stuff patched in
>> (when i had any doubts) from statnz interactive boundary viewer
>> (ambiguous regions, some populations). Where spelling disagreed i
>> tended to go with the electoral dataset
>> http://www.linz.govt.nz/placenames/electoral-streets-places/ Just
>> beware there was a lot of hand editing involved, hence errors are a
>> real possibility.
>>
>> QGIS: i tried both installers, both had the same error. It wasnt the
>> Program Files thing becasue i put it in Program-Files the second time
>> to be safe. As far as i got in the documentation suggested it was the
>> absence of a windows library. I ran out of time and patience. Given
>> your guys recommendation ill try it again soon. Failing that ill try
> it
>> on a linux box, thatd probably, yeah, be easier... The thought of all
>> that FOSS sql, python, etc running on windows gives me the willys.
>>
>> METADATA: Yes, No. The reason being the same as why i was reliant on
>> such half baked sources, lack of GIS knowhow.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> pcreso at pcreso.com wrote:
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> Thanks for that, a useful dataset. Before I use it, can you give me
>> some
>>> idea of where it was derived from,&  what licence the content is
>>> available under? If there are several sources, then identifying the
>>> source of each record would be useful, as most licences have an
>>> attribution requirement.
>>>
>>> &  QGIS is worth persevering with&  have a look at Postgis for
> spatial
>>> data management :-)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Brent Wood
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On *Mon, 11/15/10, Peter /<webwiz at pl.net>/* wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>      From: Peter<webwiz at pl.net>
>>>      Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] NZ Towns
>>>      To: aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org
>>>      Date: Monday, November 15, 2010, 2:01 PM
>>>
>>>      Indeed, i eventually concluded that the secondary sources that
>> are
>>>      freely available are all unreliable. The geographic placename
>>>      register from linz is two years out of date, and its regions are
>> not
>>>      TLA regions but land districts. LINZ also has an up to date
>>>      electoral districts file, which i was able to use to get tla
>>>      districts from for some 6000 odd places. The geonames dataset is
>>>      based on the geographic placenames dataset, and has the region
>> field
>>>      mostly empty. It has partial population fields, ( about a
> quarter
>>>      maybe), and approx coords. I found the google geocoder coords to
>> be
>>>      quite a bit more accurate. I suspect the geonames coords are
>>>      someones attempts to shift the linz place label coords by half
>> the
>>>      label width or something.
>>>
>>>      Anyway the only real solution is as you say is go back to the
>>>      primary GIS data. Attempts to bodge together old secondary
>> sources
>>>      only introduces yet more noise into the dataset.
>>>
>>>      FWIW my excel spreadhsheet is here if its any use to anyone.
>>>      http://www.zoneblue.org/files/nz-towns.zip
>>>
>>>      Which served my immediate purpose, but i do need to get more
>>>      organised GIS wise.
>>>
>>>      I have no real fondness for large java or .NET frameworks which
>> are
>>>      needed for the main GIS packages. As for open source, QGIS would
>> not
>>>      install, Grass did (brought a bucket load of stuff with it too),
>> so
>>>      i guess ill try learning it.
>>>
>>>      Thanks for your help guys.
>>>
>>>      Peter
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      Gavin Treadgold wrote:
>>>       >  On 2010-11-12, at 13:16 , Robert Coup wrote:
>>>       >>  On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Peter<webwiz at pl.net
>>>      </mc/compose?to=webwiz at pl.net>
>>>       >>  <mailto:webwiz at pl.net</mc/compose?to=webwiz at pl.net>>>
> wrote:
>>>       >>
>>>       >>  I have blown an inordinate amount of time trying to merge
>> various
>>>       >>  online sources to get a listing of towns in NZ. Ideally this
>> list
>>>       >>  would have town , district/city/unitary council, region, and
>>>       >>  population or area. This would allow me filter by towns
> above
>>>       >>  certain sizes for various web app uses.
>>>       >>  GPS coords would also be good but i can get those from
> google
>>>       >>  geocoder.
>>>       >>
>>>       >>  Getting area or boundaries will be harder. Possibly the Fire
>> Service
>>>       >>  suburbs dataset (available for $0 but under onerous terms)
>> will
>>>      help,
>>>       >>  or look at meshblocks/area-units and their populations from
>> the
>>>      census
>>>       >>  database and try and derive from that?
>>>       >
>>>       >  Much of the boundaries you should be able to get from
>> Statistics New
>>>       >  Zealands digital boundaries.
>>>       >
>>>       >
>>>
>>
> <http://www.stats.co.nz/browse_for_stats/people_and_communities/geograp
>> hic-areas/download-digital-boundaries.aspx>
>>>       >
>>>       >  Cheers Gav
>>>       >
>>>
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