[Qgis-developer] Heatmap Plugin

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 03/12/2011 11:48, Marco Hugentobler ha scritto:

> I can only second that. A convenient way to write a new interpolation function is to
> derive a subclass from QgsInterpolator (src/analysis/qgsinterpolator.h).
> Interpolation usually requires a lot of computation, therefore it is good to
> implement it in the analysis library in C++. Like that, the method is available to
> QGIS and its plugins (also python) and other applications using QGIS libs.

Agreed, much better adding methods to existing code than making ad hoc tools.
In fact we have several interpolation methods missing from QGIS core (see e.g. GRASS
modules) and adding them would be good for the project.
All the best.

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