[Qgis-developer] Geometry Checker contra Topology Checker

[Nyall Dawson]

On 7 October 2015 at 05:33, Giovanni Manghi <giovanni.manghi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Is it Geometry Checker replacement for Topology Checker? It has more
>> options but does not support multiple layers. What is the future,
>> Geometry Checker or Topology Checker or both merged together?
>
>
> this is the classic example of bad redundancy we would need to remove
> in QGIS. Not only we have now the geometry checker and the topology
> checker, but there is also a core python tool to check for geometry.
> It seems to me that the last two should should eventually be merged in
> the first one, considered that they do not offer any tool to fix the
> geometries and that they have a few issues (slow, problems with
> reprojected layers, false positives, etc.).

We also should move the first one to the analysis library, so that the
routines are accessible by plugins and processing framework.... Just
another item on the TODO list!

Nyall