[Qgis-developer] Best way to share QGIS scripting techniques

[C Hamilton]

Anita,

Thank you for your reply. I may take you up on your offer for a guest post
or else look into PyQGIS cookbook. What is the public movement data that
you mentioned?

Thanks,
Calvin

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:

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>> Recently, I needed to create a set of images using a vector data set that
>> contained dates. I wanted to iterate across years to generate the images.
>> The TimeManager plugin works perfect for this, except I needed more control
>> of the output image - the type of control I get from the Print Composer.
>> To accomplish the task I created the Print Composer to generate the layout
>> that I wanted. Then I wrote a python script that communicated with the
>> TimeManager plugin to set the date and then called the Print Composer's
>> generate tiff image routine. It worked great.
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>> I think this would make a good how-to tutorial. Where is the best
>> location to put such a tutorial and is there a public data set that you
>> would recommend that I could use for the tutorial because my data set is
>> not sharable. It would need a date field.
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> ​A blog post would work as Tom mentioned. If you don't have a blog, I can
> offer you to write a guest post on my blog.
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> Another place would be the PyQGIS cookbook.
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> Concerning datasets, I've used e.g. OSM data (contains timestamps for last
> update per feature) in the past. There is also some public movement data
> that could be used.
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> Best wishes,
> Anita
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