[Live-demo] [OSGeo] #1081: QGIS Quickstart review feedback

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#1081: QGIS Quickstart review feedback
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 Reporter:  camerons  |       Owner:  live-demo@…              
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:  OSGeoLive6.5             
Component:  LiveDVD   |    Keywords:  qgis, 6.5                
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Comment(by hamish):

 Hi,

 some feedback on the feedback.

  * the logic behind showing how to start both the GRASS and SEXTANTE
 toolboxes is that they both open doors to long hallways of dozens
 (hundreds!) of extra analysis tools to explore. Demoing how to load a qgis
 plugin is just a secondary lesson to how to open those doors.

  * the logic in showing how to start NVIZ is both to show how to use one
 of the plugin tools, but mainly demonstrating how you have a 3D (+)
 visualization suite right at your fingertips, just a bit buried if you
 don't know how to get to it.

  * the logic in demonstrating the OSM toolbox is simply that it is our
 richest dataset on the disc and the plugin (at medium scale) is quite a
 beautiful thing to see on the screen. try it!

  * ne 10m populated places simple layer name fixed in r9829.

  * I don't see anything wrong with how the "Water" layer in the NE is
 selected, seems about right.

  * Loading the GRASS example leads first to a message saying it was
 created with an earlier version of QGIS, and once you press OK it crashed
 out with a core dump. Eventually I got it to not crash, but then I get a
 dialog about needing to fix 5 bad layers. Unless someone is going to fix
 it, I suggest to remove that sample file.
  The GRASS toolbox itself seems fine (e.g. load raster slope map and
 vector archsites points map from Spearfish looks nice)

  * The ''elevation'' map was missing from the list because it was
 mistakenly removed in an earlier edit to the quickstart. It's back now.

  * NVIZ crashed with an out of memory error because the computational
 region was never set from the missing elevation map. With the elevation
 map back and the red border button pressed for it, it all works fine.


 I've just checked-in a number of edits to the quickstart to deal with the
 toolbox issues with r9836. Issues earlier in the quickstart document
 remain outstanding.


 Hamish

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