[Qgis-developer] How do we deal with duplicate functionality in Select by Location and Spatial Query Plugin?

[Anita Graser]

Am 05.04.2013, 14:55 Uhr, schrieb Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>:

> Hi!
>
> So as far as i can see there is only one difference - the "keeping" of  
> the
> layer - or forcing to duplicate the layer ..
> Personaly I tend to keep everything clean and tidy too but I see not
> disadvantage of having them both .. even more when one of them is "only"  
> a
> plugin..


It seems to be a core plugin though ... just like ftools.

Anita


> So we already have the functionality built in if on needs it ..
> And .. can the plugin function be used by sextante?
>
> regards
> Werner
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Alexander Bruy  
> <alexander.bruy at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Anita,
>>
>> personally I prefer to keep only one tool.
>>
>> On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:37:24 +0200
>> "Anita Graser" <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
>>
>> > Both cover Intersection. Spatial Query also offers Contains and
>> > Disjoint. Select by Location allows to compare a layer with itself  
>> while
>> > Spatial Query forces you to duplicate the layer to achieve the same
>> > results.
>>
>> Also Spatial Query plugin is much faster on large datasets
>>
>> --
>> Alexander Bruy
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