[Qgis-community-team] Re: manual status and progress

[Otto Dassau]

Hi Tara,

On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:51:51 -0700
Tara Athan <tara_athan at alt2is.com> wrote:

> from now through next week I will not have time for any work on the 
> manual. I expect to be out of town with no internet connection. After 
> that, I should have some free time.

ok, then we should maybe meet on IRC the week after? Maybe Tue 21st 4pm UTC? I
will try to work on the manual as much as I can, so at the meeting we can
discuss the final steps. Would that be ok, can we make it fix?

> At present, I have a windows build that is probably not the most recent, 
> so I will have to update to the latest.

I don't think there are important changes, but if you get a chance to update, do
it. More important is to get the latest sample data set to have those changes
included. 

> I saw the recent exchange about the sample dataset but I didn't 
> understand the source of the problem with the projection, and don't have 
> time to sit down and try to think about it.  This projection is no 
> longer supported? 

yes, at least at the moment.

> I have been having some problems with on-the-fly 
> projection in the new releases, don't know if this is related.

yes, it is, because as Gary mentioned in another mail, the projection engine
in QGIS probably isn't recognizing the to_meter parameter correctly at the
moment. This caused problems in the old dataset, because it's projection is not
supported correctly in QGIS and therefore OTF and other functionalities which
depend on projection info failed.

The "new" sample data are now reprojected to EPSG 2964 for Albers Equal Area CRS
using unit feet instead of meter: +proj=aea +lat_1=55 +lat_2=65 +lat_0=50
+lon_0=-154 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=clrk66 +datum=NAD27
+to_meter=0.3048006096012192 +no_defs - you find this CRS in the current QGIS
and it is fully supported.

regards,
 Otto

> Tara
> 
> Werner Macho wrote:
> > Hi Otto, all!
> >
> > I always wonder where you take your time from to do all that things.. 
> > I think I've to work on my time-management :)
> > I managed to get a daily qgis-built installed on my laptop recently so 
> > i can follow the developement on my gentoo-based notebook.
> >
> > IRC Meeting is ok for me whenever you want ..
> >
> > regards
> > Werner
> >> I also hope you manage it somehow ;-), but it is no problem, I would 
> >> just like
> >> to know how we can proceed to finish. As you might have seen I 
> >> already wrote
> >> sections for coordinate capture, interpolation, dxf2Shape and OGR 
> >> converter
> >> plugin and updated again the qgis sample dataset (added a new CSV 
> >> table with
> >> elevation data for the delimited text and interpolation plugin).
> >>
> >> @Tara, Stephan Holl and Werner: maybe we could have a IRC meeting 
> >> within the
> >> next week to coordinate the final? What do you think and when would 
> >> be ok for
> >> you? Except next thursday (16th) I would have time for a 4 pm UTC 
> >> meeting :).
> >>
> >>   
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