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

[Tara Athan]

Tuesday, 21, 4 pm UTC is ok with me.
Tara

Otto Dassau wrote:
> 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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