[Qgis-developer] SOSI support in QGIS

[Larry Shaffer]

Hi,

Hmm. I had no issues opening that file up on Mac [0]. The only other thing
I can think of is to ensure the GDAL_DRIVER_PATH is set in the environment,
so the plugins can be found at run-time by QGIS/GDAL. I don't think that
should be an issue for an OSGeo4W install, though. To be sure, you can try
setting it in Options -> System -> Environment and see if that helps.

If the plugin wasn't found by GDAL, then the file filter for SOSI would not
show up in QGIS's file browse dialog's combobox for opening a vector layer.
If you choose *.* (all files) and try to load a .sos file, then it will
throw the invalid source error in the message bar, because GDAL never
loaded the plugin.

Sorry, won't have time to test on any other platforms for a couple of days.

[0] http://drive.dakotacarto.com/qgis/sosi-file-load.png

Regards,

Larry


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Blumentrath, Stefan <
Stefan.Blumentrath at nina.no> wrote:

>  Hi Larry,
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> Tanks for having a look at this.
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> I shall send you the file off-list…
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> Cheers
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> Stefan
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> *From:* larry at shafferinteractive.com [mailto:larry at shafferinteractive.com]
> *On Behalf Of *Larry Shaffer
> *Sent:* 27. juni 2014 11:37
> *To:* Blumentrath, Stefan
> *Cc:* Stott, James; qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-developer] SOSI support in QGIS
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> Hi James,
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> Can you share the dataset from Miljødirektoratet that you are testing? I
> can't get Google to translate the pages to English.
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> Regards,
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> Larry
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> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Blumentrath, Stefan <
> Stefan.Blumentrath at nina.no> wrote:
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> >So it Works for Mac and Linux users?
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> Yes, seems to work there.
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> >Does this work with the installer download of QGIS for Windows? I havent
> actually tried that.
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> I doubt it, since the installer is also built based on OSGeo4W, if I am
> not mistaken.
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> >Is it possible to drop it for just Windows users?
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> No idea. Any developer / packager who would be willing to help us tracing
> down the problem on Win? Since a fix would be the best solution...
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> >I just think we will end up with a lot of users (especially as Windows
> will possbily be the most used platform) who will get frustrated that they
> cant open these files despite it looking like they should be able to.
> Better to wait until 2.6 in my opinion.
> >This is a shame as we now have a nearly complete Norwegian translation in
> place for 2.4, so SOSI support and a translation are two very good
> arguements for adopting QGIS here.
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> I see your point...
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> Cheers
> Stefan
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