[Qgis-developer] Band order in "Identify Features"

[Peter Ersts]

Lucena, Ivan wrote:
> It looks like a bug to me but I could be wrong since I am not too familiar with QGIS, but the things is that if I load a 
> raster dataset with more than 9 bands the "Identify Results" windows shows the pair {Band,Value} in the wrong 
> order. I mean, it is in alphabetical order but it doesn't make sense for an usability point of view.
>   

It is just an alphanumeric sorting. However since the band names are now 
created/labeled sequentially on load, they should come up in the right 
logical order in any list.  We chose to name the bands this way because 
the band names stored in the raster file were not always correct or even 
relevant causing confusion for newer users and for even more experienced 
users.

Please file a ticket for this.

> it would be even better to present something else other then "BandN" since some datasets could have raster 
> attribute table or GDAL band metadata. In that case we could be presenting something like:
>
> {Band, Date, Average Temperature}
> Band1  1982-01 22
> Band1  1982-02 21
>   
There is already a ticket for this ( 
http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1296 ).


-pete

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