[Qgis-developer] QGIS remote control API

[Enrico Ferreguti]

I never tested, but I see there is https://github.com/3liz/qgis-wps4server
a server-plugin to perform remote geoprocessing jobs.
Anyway I think this could be very handy for remote qgis-server
administration.

Regards.
Enrico

2017-03-14 21:48 GMT+01:00 Bernd Vogelgesang <bernd.vogelgesang at gmx.de>:

> Hi Barry,
> sounds great for me! (simple users opinion)
>
> Cheers
> Bernd
>
>
> Am 14.03.2017, 18:51 Uhr, schrieb Barry Rowlingson <
> b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>:
>
> I'm doing some spatial analysis with R. I've read in a shapefile:
>>
>>  > data = shapefile("input.shp")
>>
>> then I've done some analysis:
>>
>>  > data$stats = something(data)
>>
>> Now I want to map it. I can use R's plot function, but that's not
>> interactive, hard to add background layers and style, no labelling,
>> cartography etc. I could use leaflet, but that requires JS code to get
>> anything custom. So I write a shapefile:
>>
>>  > shapefile(data, "output.shp")
>>
>> Start QGIS, load the shapefile, realise all my column names have been
>> mashed to 12 characters (or whatever), style it. Go "huh" and think.
>> Back to R. Repeat.
>>
>> With a QGIS remote control API I could do something like:
>>
>>  > addQgisLayer(data)
>>
>> and *bang* there it is in Qgis. With data flow in that direction, Qgis
>> is a cartographic display for R's spatial data. But data flow could go
>> the other way - so that Qgis layers could be easily read back into R
>> spatial data.
>>
>>  In theory you could wrap the entire Python API to the remote control
>> API. At that point the use cases are almost like any Python QGIS use
>> cases, except expanded to any language or system that can send a web
>> request. R, Matlab,  JS, perl, ruby.. even Python if you want to be
>> slightly perverse and can't run from the python interpreter.
>>
>> Barry
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>> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Tom Chadwin <tom.chadwin at nnpa.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> What are some example use cases?
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
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