[Qgis-developer] ideas for developpers

[Mauricio de Paulo]

Ok, since i had an argue with my postgis' join clause because of incorrectly 
uploaded columns' name (please take a look at it SPIT maintainer), i'm 
currently writing the join by attribute as a python plugin. It WON'T be as 
good as the postgis' join, but i'm trying to use python map to make it not 
too slow. When i finish i'm going to post the results.
Maurício de Paulo


On Thursday 15 May 2008 16:09:05 Sebastien Vial wrote:
> Hi all
>
> First many thanks to Carson for those amazing plugins... specially for the
> manageR !!
>
> (perhaps I should write those ideas on some page in the wiki... but where
> ?)
>
> And now, some ideas :
> * for plugin developpers with time : (I'm a gis teacher, but with no time
> and no python capacities... I'm trying to discover this interesting
> programming language)
> - join by attribute : join all the objets with the same attributes (the
> opposite of the split by attributes) ; used to merge some polygons with the
> same value in a column attribute
> - simplify vector layer according to the scale ; there exists a python
> script - in the gdal package for python- whose name is simplify.py that
> does it... and a postgis script
> http://www.bostongis.com/postgis_simplify.snippet
>
> * Wouldn't it be interesting to organize (at least a little) the plugin
> menu ? mine begins to be very... large ! For exemple, we could organize
> like - vector objects oriented plugins
> - database oriented plugins
> - raster oriented
> - import/export
> - selecting
> - statistics...
>
> * and about the plugin manager : adding a column to know the installed
> version of the plugin (like some linux package manager), in order to
> compare the version number, and to know if the plugin needs to be
> re-installed --- and perhaps a warning when there is a new version of a
> plugin
>
> Many thanks in advance !!
>
> I'm writing docs on qgis use (and the plugins !!)  for my students, but
> there will be in FRENCH !!!
>
> Seb