[Qgis-developer] new C++ plugin

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 09:44 +0100, Marco Hugentobler wrote:
> Hi Maxim
> 
> Wow, really great work. Otschen spassibo to Russia!
> 
> A connection to the google world via plugin is a very good thing. I'd like to 
> include the plugin into the standard distribution if that is ok for you and if 
> you intend to do further development and maintaining of the code.

+1

> 
> @Tim: I suppose feature freeze also holds for plugins? In that case, inclusion 
> could be done after version 1.0 is out.

Yes we should schedule this for 1.1

> 
> To the question C++ vs. Python: There is no 'official' rule which language to 
> use for plugins. It's really up to the programmer, both have their pros and 
> cons. 

Yes I would also prefer if we dont discourage C++ plugins - for me the
bug benifit of C++ plugins is that they can usually be incoporated into
3rd party libqgis based applications without needing to package all the
python etc stuff.

Great work Maxim!

Regards

Tim

> 
> Some wishes for the future:
> Is it also possible to convert qgis symbology to kml? I think that would be 
> very usefull. 
> And the automatic conversion of features from layer coordinate system to 
> google coordinates (is it WGS84?) would be a real killer feature.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Marco
> 
> 
> 
> On Saturday 01 November 2008 04:22:58 Maxim Dubinin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does someone want to test our brand new QGIS plugin? It is C++ based,
> > so you need to copy it to plugins. This is part of the ongoing process
> > to develop a bigger one and our first try, so judge accordingly ;)
> >
> > It adds two simple instruments, one tool is used to open the
> > coordinates of the click in Google Maps and other tool gets and open a
> > geometry from active layer in Google Earth. It is a handy tool for
> > quickly sending stuff from QGIS to GE, we're using ourselves quite a
> > bit.
> >
> > If someone is interested, svn is here:
> > http://svn.gis-lab.info/qgis2google
> >
> > Win version can be downloaded from here
> > http://gis-lab.info/programs/qgis/libqgis2googleplugin.zip
> >
> > Still trying to figure out the best way to distribute stuff like this
> > for other OSes too, not much experience here.
> >
> > Maxim
> >
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