[Qgis-developer] Re: SelectPlus and postgis in trunk

[John C. Tull]

Barry,

I'm cc'ing the dev list in hopes that somebody like Marco might be  
able to pick up the streamed editing work.

Thanks,
John

On Apr 14, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:33 PM, John C. Tull <john.tull at wildnevada.org 
> > wrote:
>> Barry,
>>
>> I updated selectplus and it works great! I did not try topocolour.
>
> Great!
>
>> Also, your repo that I have in the plugin installer is offline or
>> inaccessible.
>
> Yeah, scheduled power shutdown of about half of campus. We paid one
> of our techies lots of money to come in today and shut it down because
> technically work has been closed since last Wednesday, and some
> academics were complaining about the server being down for a week.
> We'll fire it up when work opens on Thursday.
>
>> Lastly, the freehand tool would be a great start for implementing a  
>> freehand
>> drawing plugin for creating new vectors, something like what you  
>> can do in
>> Google Earth with their layer drawing. I've often wanted to draw a  
>> polygon
>> boundary off a topo map with a freehand drawing tool rather than  
>> clicking
>> the map a billion times. This has been in the enhancement list for  
>> a while:
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/997
>
> Hmmm that's possibly something that'll need to go into the core to
> integrate with the editing tools - because once you've drawn it you
> might want to edit it, thin it, snap it to other things etc. Might be
> a bit beyond me!
>
> Barry