[Qgis-community-team] Release date for manual 1.1

[Claudia A Engel]

Otto and Carson,

I edited the changes for Postgis SLL mode, improved handling of  
postgis layers and the map units/pixels addition and committed those  
to svn.
These edits are reflected on the Manual Task page. I tested to make  
sure, and it all seems to compile fine here. I hope this is all ok,  
but me know if I should do something differently, as I have never done  
this before.

I also added the headers for the following subsections as discussed,  
but they need to be written:
-Spatialite Layers
-Diagram overlay tab
-Working with the attribute table

Lastly, the new Vector Load dialogue needs still to be added in. I can  
probably do this, plus another of the chapters above, this weekend.
So if anyone can help out with the other chapters, that would be great.

Thanks, Claudia

On Apr 29, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Carson Farmer wrote:

> Hi team,
>>
>> I saw that Carson already did something here.
>>
>> Carson what was your idea when you created the  
>> "plugins_diagram_overlay_images"
>> folder? Do you plan to add an extra subsection for this plugin in  
>> the plugin
>> chapter?
> Well for starters I needed an icon for the core plugins chapter ;-)
>
> But yes, I will be adding a section to the plugin as well. It would  
> be nice to see what Claudia has done as well, so that we don't end  
> up duplicating each others work... Claudia, have you committed your  
> edits yet?
>> Or should it work as for the SPIT Plugin. It is listed in section  
>> 12 "Using Core
>> Plugins" but there doesn't exist a SPIT plugin subsection. The  
>> description can
>> be found in section 5.2.4 together with the PostGIS stuff.
>>
> hmm, now that I think of it, this might be the best route to take...  
> this adds more work to Claudia's list, so Claudia if you need help  
> just let us know... I imagine that in the future the vector overlay  
> stuff will become completely part of core, so putting it in the  
> working with vector layers section now might save some hassle later  
> on as well...
>
> In this case, I think I'll add two new subsections for SPIT and the  
> Overlay stuff in the Using core plugins chapter, pointing the user  
> to the sections in the working with vector layers Chapter...
>> For the diagram_overlay plugin this would mean, we add it to the  
>> list of core
>> plugins but the description would go into working_with_vector.tex  
>> and we use the
>> folder diagram_overlay plugin_images/ for the plugin icons and  
>> screenies. Is
>> that correct?
>>
> see above
>>> - Changes in attribute table
>>> I could not find any description of the attribute table in the  
>>> manual,  but maybe I looked in the wrong place. If there is none,  
>>> is it  necessary to have one? Add another subsection?
>>>
>>
>> yes, I haven't found anything, too. In the other email I suggested  
>> to add a new
>> subsubsection to 5.4 Editing \subsection{Working with the attribute  
>> table} just
>> above the Query Builder?
>>
> This would be good. We should at least mention that there is an  
> attribute table somewhere... also, the attribute table is relatively  
> fast compared with other GIS, so this should probably be mentioned...
>>
>>> - Improved handling of postGIS layers.
>>> I did not look around very thoroughly, but at first glance I could  
>>> not  figure out what this exactly refers to.
>>>
>>
>> I don't know either? Carson, do you know? Otherwise we can ask  
>> Jürgen, I guess
>> we did those improvements.
>>
> Yeh, Jürgen would be the one to ask... the SSL mode change is  
> probably one of the bigger changes, and increases PostGIS access  
> speed by up to 5 times in some cases!
>
> -- 
> Carson J. Q. Farmer
> ISSP Doctoral Fellow
> National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG),
> Email: Carson.Farmer at gmail.com
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