[Qgis-developer] Interpolation plugin

[Tim Sutton]

+1 from me

2008/7/9 Marco Hugentobler <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch>:
> 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
>> > QGIS Project Steering Committee Member - Release Manager
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>
>
> --
> Dr. Marco Hugentobler
> Institute of Cartography
> ETH Zurich
> Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee
>



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