[Qgis-developer] PyQGIS working script / demo

[Alex Mandel]

On 07/19/2010 12:45 PM, Martin Dobias wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Noli Sicad <nsicad at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Anybody using PyQGIS cookbook?
>>
>> http://www.mapserver.sk/~wonder/qgis/html/
> 
> please note that this location is temporary. Once the cookbook will be
> a bit more complete, it will be moved to qgis site.
> 
> 
>> It seems the cookbook gear towards advance developers who know a lot
>> of the qqis api and python.
> 
> Actually the intent was to introduce the QGIS API, so it probably fails :-/
> I expect that someone wanting to interface qgis from python has some
> python knowledge - there are many tutorials for python.
> 
> 
>> Has anybody has a working demo / script using pygis to share? I am
>> particularly interested in rendering spatialite geometries in map
>> canvas. However, postgis rendering in map canvas or any script will do
>> as well.
> 
> Sure, I have various scripts, though most of them are for some
> specific data processing.
> 
> The cookbook shows how to load a spatialite layer and shows how to use
> map canvas widget. It just doesn't show how to combine the layer and
> canvas in a simple script. Is that what you are missing?
> 
> 
>> Any sample PyQt application that uses a simple pyqgis map canvas?
> 
> Some good and short examples can be found here:
> http://blog.qgis.org/node/59
> 
> 
>> I thnk some working python scripts that goes with PyQGIS cookbook
>> would be good to keep us started, not to mention geoprocessing
>> scripting in QGIS similar to ArcPy.
> 
> That makes sense. A bunch of simple and commented examples will surely
> be handy for beginners.
> 
> Regards
> Martin


Speaking of which, how would you like people to go about contributing. I
have lots of little things I've discovered from teaching QGIS python API
to GIS students with little to no programming background.

Thanks,
Alex