[QGIS-Developer] The need for intuitive complex feature edit support in QGIS 3+

[Régis Haubourg]

Hi Rui,
did you have a look at this project ?
https://github.com/BRGM/gml_application_schema_toolbox

I think you purchase the very same goal, a common approach seems a good
idea !
Regards,
Régis

2018-01-09 1:17 GMT+01:00 Rui Cavaco <rpcavaco at gmail.com>:

> Hello list.
>
> My name is Rui Cavaco, a supporter for OSGeo Portugal, and I see the need
> for some future major changes in desktop GIS user interfaces in order to
> facilitate complex features editing and querying.
>
> GML and INSPIRE are about complex features but so are fiber optic
> networks. Complex features could be also very productive in simpler cases
> like the management of city road signs and indications and other
> municipality themes.
> In order to properly support complex features I think we need to go
> further than the simple and old three-part GUI comprising TOC, map and
> attribute table. For example, attribute and form views must have "drill
> down" capabilities. As for the TOC, subdivding layers, as the GMLAS
> extension does, is not enough. Something like tree-view windows showing
> object hierarchies and complex objects' internal contents must exist. This
> is the exact same as schematics / synoptic views provided by specialized
> "closed source" GIS tools provided for telecom and other utilities
> management. Also I think the TOC should be very interactive and adaptive,
> in order to make possible to expose the intrincacies of sublayers without
> cluttering the whole layer tree with details uneeded for the current user
> context.
>
> Me and others discussing this subject in OSGeo-PT chat, we are convinced
> that without a largely available and intuitive editing support for complex
> features INSPIRE will soon be (some say already is) dead, despite all the
> the EU legal obligations.
>
> I suppose this is not a job for a single developer or a small team. I
> imagine this might require some profound changes in QGIS. I don't think
> that all these GUI changes mentioned could be "compacted" in just an
> extension.
>
> Funding for this effort could be raised from INSPIRE-interested EU
> organizations and member state government agencies. Also telecom companies
> and other utilities managers can be interested. Dedicated "closed source"
> GIS solutions for utilities are so absurdly expensive that this can open an
> opportunity window for Open Source based solutions.
>
> I would like to join efforts with others sharing this vision in order to
> help make it happen in future releases of QGIS.
>
> Rui Cavaco
>
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