[Qgis-developer] SOSI support in QGIS

[Etienne Tourigny]

If SOSI is available in the Raster file open dialog, it is because gdal has
support for SOSI. If a particular SOSI file cannot be opened, then it is a
GDAL bug, not a QGIS one, and should be reported in the GDAL bugtracker.




On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Blumentrath, Stefan <
Stefan.Blumentrath at nina.no> wrote:

>  Hi Larry,
>
>
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> Thanks for your efforts. I understand that you are especially busy right
> now…
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> I checked GDAL_DRIVER_PATH  and it was - just as you suspected for OSGeo4W
> – set properly to “C:\OSGeo4W\bin\gdalplugins”.
>
> Just like in James case, SOSI is listed in the combo-box in QGIS and I get
> the dialog for selecting among the three layers in the file. When I try to
> load one of them I get the “Invalid data source” error message.
>
>
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> GDAL in the same OSGeo4W installation reads and converts the SOSI file
> without any issues. However, I noticed that GDAL was also less picky with
> the versions. While the SOSI plugin compiled against GDAL 1.10 does not
> show up in QGIS 2.3 (build against GDAL 1.11), GDAL 1.11 itself has no
> problems with that plugin either.
>
>
>
> Maybe some subtle differences in compiler settings between Jürgens build
> of GDAL and my build of the SOSI-plugin may cause the problems here? I
> assume you use same compiler for GDAL and QGIS on Mac (like I do on Ubuntu)…
>
> When I built the SOSI plugin I tried to follow packaging instructions
> closely. I used MS Visual Studio Express 2010 (compiler toolset v100) for
> the 32bit build (SDK 7.1 for the 64bit build), set MSVC_VER=1600 in GDALs
> nmake.opt, added SOSI support and kept default settings in the other cases.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Stefan
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> *From:* larry at shafferinteractive.com [mailto:larry at shafferinteractive.com]
> *On Behalf Of *Larry Shaffer
> *Sent:* 27. juni 2014 13:02
>
> *To:* Blumentrath, Stefan
> *Cc:* Stott, James; qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-developer] SOSI support in QGIS
>
>
>
> 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:
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> Hi Larry,
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>
> Tanks for having a look at this.
>
>
>
> I shall send you the file off-list…
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> 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
>
>
>
> Hi James,
>
> Can you share the dataset from Miljødirektoratet that you are testing? I
> can't get Google to translate the pages to English.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Larry
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Blumentrath, Stefan <
> Stefan.Blumentrath at nina.no> wrote:
>
> >So it Works for Mac and Linux users?
>
> Yes, seems to work there.
>
>
> >Does this work with the installer download of QGIS for Windows? I havent
> actually tried that.
>
> I doubt it, since the installer is also built based on OSGeo4W, if I am
> not mistaken.
>
>
> >Is it possible to drop it for just Windows users?
>
> 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...
>
>
> >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.
>
> I see your point...
>
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
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