[Qgis-developer] New feature's needed, create geometry from attribute

[Anita Graser]

The Quick WKT plugin does something very similar.
Anita

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Alexander Bruy <alexander.bruy at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, what about NumericalVertexEdit plugin? If I understand correctly, it
> do what you need.
>
> 2013/6/30 Régis Haubourg <regis.haubourg at eau-adour-garonne.fr>:
> > Hi all,
> > After some training courses here, a very common use case is not satisfied
> > easily:
> >
> > The only entry to create geometry from text (XY or WKT) is the delimited
> > text plugin.
> > It appears that having a separate fonction "create point" like in
> Mapinfo or
> > Arcgis would be really handy, and could avoid the need of csv import.
> >
> > I was thinking of making a plugin for this, but I'm wondering what is the
> > best approach.
> >  1- duplicate layer into a memory layer. Easy, requires MemoryLayerSaver
> to
> > make data persistent, is not dynamic with datasource.
> >  2- create a pluginLayer? I'm not sure it will do what I need. I would
> like
> > the project to keep a reference to the datasource (xls, whatever ogr/
> > postgres/ sqlite/ spatialite) and replace or create geometry on load by
> > reading XY columns or WKT column.
> >
> > Is that feasable in a plugin,  as a proof of concept, or does it require
> > core classes modifications (C++ work , so I won't do it by myself)
> >
> > Thanks for your tips,
> > Régis
>
> --
> Alexander Bruy
> _______________________________________________
> Qgis-developer mailing list
> Qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/attachments/20130630/400694af/attachment-0001.html>