[Qgis-developer] GSOC project idea

[Sai Harsh Tondomker]

Hi Nyall,
Thanks for your valuable reply.
I will try to complete the project write-up(1-2 pages and with some
additional features) within 2 days.

Thanks & Regards,
Harsh




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On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:44 AM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Sai!
>
> Thanks for raising interested in this - we'd love to have more GSOC
> candidates for the project!
>
> Some specific comments inline below:
>
> On 21 March 2017 at 06:03, Sai Harsh Tondomker <saiharsh.t13 at iiits.in>
> wrote:>
> > 1. Without restarting qgis, it will display the newly added plugin. best
> of my knowledge this feature is not present in qgis.
>
> That's already present if plugins are installed using the plugin
> installer. The master version of the installer also allows
> installation of offline plugin zips, which will immediately be loaded
> without restart.
>
> > 2.Let us suppose if in a .csv file we have lat, long column, when it's
> uploaded to qgis it will mark all the places which this lat & long is
> representing.(If user needs it), it's useful because lat & long are used
> quite often.
>
> That's also already present, using either the delimited text provider
> or the OGR provider.
>
> > 4. Qgis to support Python 3 without breaking python 2.
>
> We've made the decision that QGIS 3.0 is when we break API and move to
> Python 3 only. We won't accept backward compatibility here as it gets
> very tricky with our various dependencies, especially PyQt. So the
> master branch is now fully Python 3 and does not support Python 2.
>
> > 3. While uploading the .csv file (in which duplicate names exist) to
> merge with attribute table in qgis, the duplicates can be merge depending
> on the formula applied, this feature is not present in qgis.
>
> This sounds interesting! We could certainly benefit a lot from both
> greater power available through joins and relations, and also
> duplicate management is quite poor in QGIS. I'd suggest the second
> half of this (duplicate management) could be a great project to
> explore.
>
> Nyall
>
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