[Qgis-developer] plugin dev - save to ogr vector file

[Rob Nickerson]

On Wednesday, 4 July 2012, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> Il 03/07/2012 20:17, Rob Nickerson ha scritto:
>
>> I am brand new to QGIS (having got here from my work with OpenStreetMap)
so apologies
>> if I am posting this in the wrong place. What I am trying to do is adapt
the fTools
>> plugin so that it can save to any ogr verctor file format. The reason
behind this is
>> that I found the ESRI shapefile format to be restrictive (e.g. attribute
values are
>> limited to 254 chars - 80 in QGIS??).
>
> that would be a very welcome addition, thanks. please note that fTools
are now
> incorporated also in Sextante plugin. The plugin also saves by default in
shp, but
> users can select other formats as well.
> could this solve your problem?
> all the best.
> --

Sounds like this solves my problem.:-)

Is it worth spending a few moments to bring qgis online documentation up to
date?  I struggled to find the info I needed :-(

rob

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