[Qgis-developer] Interpolation plugin

[Marco Hugentobler]

Yes, if there are no objections from other devs, I'm going to commit it to 
qgis svn after the feature freeze is over.

Regards,
Marco

Am Mittwoch 09 Juli 2008 12:24:50 schrieb Tim Sutton:
> Oh by the way it would be really great to see this go into QGIS 1.0!
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> 2008/7/9 Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>:
> > Hi
> >
> > My pleasure. In case it wasnt obvious from my last email if you are
> > compiling against QGIS in a 'default' location there is no need to do
> > anything more than
> >
> > ccmake ..
> >
> > to configure. Parameters I listed were for if you want to compile
> > against a non standard location for QGIS.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > 2008/7/9 Marco Hugentobler <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch>:
> >> Hi Tim,
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot for the patch. It is appied now in the tarball
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Marco
> >>
> >> Am Dienstag 08 Juli 2008 13:24:14 schrieb Tim Sutton:
> >>> Hi Marco
> >>>
> >>> I made a quick patch so that you can build it out of qgis source tree.
> >>> The install prefix in cmake .. will be ignored - the plugins will go
> >>> into your qgis plugins dir based on which qgis instance you are using.
> >>> I build like this:
> >>>
> >>> ccmake .. -DQGIS_CORE_LIBRARY=/home/timlinux/apps/lib/libqgis_core.so
> >>> -DQGIS_GUI_LIBRARY=/home/timlinux/apps/lib/libqgis_gui.so
> >>> -DQGIS_PLUGIN_DIR=/home/timlinux/apps/lib/qgis/
> >>> -DQGIS_INCLUDE_DIR=/home/timlinux/apps/include/qgis/
> >>>
> >>> I made a quick test run using the points layer in qgis tests/testdata
> >>> and it worked great!
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>>
> >>> Tim
> >>>
> >>> 2008/7/8 Marco Hugentobler <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch>:
> >>> > Hi Tim
> >>> >
> >>> > Oops, you are right.
> >>> > CMakeLists.txt is added now.
> >>> >
> >>> > Thanks,
> >>> > Marco
> >>> >
> >>> > Am Dienstag 08 Juli 2008 10:10:47 schrieb Tim Sutton:
> >>> >> Hi Marco
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Cool stuff! I tried to compile but the CMakeLists.txt seems to be
> >>> >> missing from your tarball.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Regards
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Tim
> >>> >>
> >>> >> 2008/7/8 Marco Hugentobler <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch>:
> >>> >> > Hi all,
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > I wrote a plugin for spatial interpolation. The plugin is still in
> >>> >> > experimental stage. However, it already is possible to produce
> >>> >> > raster layer (ascii grid format by now) from a vector layer using
> >>> >> > linear triangulation or inverse distance weighting. The plugin
> >>> >> > code is here:
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/interpolation_plugin.tgz
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > To compile, unpack in src/plugins directory and add
> >>> >> > 'interpolation' to the first line in src/plugins/CMakeList.txt:
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> >  SUBDIRS (copyright_label delimited_text grid_maker north_arrow
> >>> >> > scale_bar interpolation)
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > The code for triangular interpolation originates from my phd
> >>> >> > several years ago. There are some capabilities that are provided
> >>> >> > by this code which are not accessible through the plugin GUI yet:
> >>> >> > - cubic triangular interpolation (clough-tocher methode or coons
> >>> >> > patch) - modify the delaunay triangulation by swapping edges
> >>> >> > - mark input data as constrained triangle edges or breaklines
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > The interpolation plugin is generic enough to support other type
> >>> >> > of interpolation methods. If you want to see your favorite
> >>> >> > interpolation method in QGIS, all you have to do is to provide a
> >>> >> > subclass of QgsInterpolator and a subclass of
> >>> >> > QgsInterpolatorDialog that takes the parameter for the
> >>> >> > interpolation method.
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > Regards,
> >>> >> > Marco
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > --
> >>> >> > Dr. Marco Hugentobler
> >>> >> > Institute of Cartography
> >>> >> > ETH Zurich
> >>> >> > Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee
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> >>> >
> >>> > --
> >>> > Dr. Marco Hugentobler
> >>> > Institute of Cartography
> >>> > ETH Zurich
> >>> > Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee
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> >>
> >> --
> >> Dr. Marco Hugentobler
> >> Institute of Cartography
> >> ETH Zurich
> >> Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee
> >
> > --
> > Tim Sutton
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-- 
Dr. Marco Hugentobler
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee