[Qgis-developer] plans to integrate terrain analysis tools? (was: Fwd: gdaldem plugin versus raster terrain modelling plugin)

[Albin Blaschka]

Am 04.05.2012 10:26, schrieb maning sambale:
> Dear devs,
>
> What are the immediate plans to integrate terrain/dem tools?
> Currently we have several terrain tools available (Raster Terrain
> Modelling plugin, GdalTools, GRASS, Sextante).
> I am currently preparing a howto on terrain analysis for newbies and I
> am evaluating which of the above plugin to introduce.  Perhaps if
> there are plans to integrate, I might as well introduce them to the
> plugin the will eventually "survive" the integration.
>

Hello!

Just an idea, which came to my mind...

Mhmm, maybe, now with sextante, it would also be good to consider the 
"old" idea of the "ecological toolbox 
(http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Ecology_Tools): I had not the time 
and possibility to look at the sextante plugin yet, but I think from 
what I have read, this would be a good basis for implementing such a 
ecological toolbox...

On the page quoted above, there are some questions (just paraphrased here):

- Identify the most common operations and algorithms
- Find a comfortable way to distribute it (customised QGIS? toolbox? 
separated plugins? library?)

I think the second one could be answered with "sextante"...
As I am no developer, just a user, please correct me if I am 
wrong...maybe somebody else had this idea already and/or is it just 
plain obvious...

just some thoughts...

Albin

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