[QGIS-Developer] saving a layer with the world_map.shp

[Áron Gergely]

Hi Tim,

With Raymond we are planning on using your great ester egg data in the 
overview box within map layouts.
I am looking for the license of the data,  do you perhaps know it / know 
where to find it?
Or does it fall under QGIS' license?

Thanks,

Best Regards,
Aron Gergely

I am also a fan of the ester egg, learned it from Raymond.

On 28/05/2019 10:50, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> I don’t have any immediate fix for your issue, but I am glad you are 
> enjoying my Easter egg :-) I also use it ALL THE TIME and it is really 
> great in training courses etc. to get people quickly started with 
> panning and zooming or putting their data in context. One day maybe we 
> can elevate it’s status to have a button on the file toolbar that adds 
> it to the canvas without the need for bunnies and chocolate :-)
>
> PS for those that don’t know about the Easter egg, type ‘world’ into 
> the coordinate box in the status bar as shown below, then press ENTER.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>> On 27 May 2019, at 14:58, Raymond Nijssen <r.nijssen at terglobo.nl 
>> <mailto:r.nijssen at terglobo.nl>> wrote:
>>
>> I know it was introduced as an easter egg, but I'm very happy with 
>> the built in world map in qgis. I'm using it in a plugin to 
>> automatically add a layer for the overview map in my layout. This 
>> layer points to a shapefile in my qgis install directory:
>>
>> /home/raymond/programs/qgis-master/share/qgis/resources/data/world_map.shp
>>
>> Now, when saving my project and somebody else opening it, the layer 
>> is invalid (of course). Is there a way to make the project point to 
>> the right file, using some kind of variable pointing to the qgis 
>> installation path?
>>
>> like this:
>> {QGIS_RESOURCE_PATH}/data/world_map.shp
>>
>> or I could copy the world.shp into my plugin and do this:
>>
>> {QGIS_PLUGIN_PATH}/my-plugin/data/world_map.shp
>>
>> These paths should then be saved including the variable in the 
>> project file.
>>
>>
>>
>> Another option would be to save the shp-file in the .qgz somehow but 
>> I'm not too sure if that is the way to go..
>>
>>
>>
>> This is the way I create the path now:
>>
>> worldShp = os.path.join(QgsApplication.pkgDataPath(), 'resources', 
>> 'data', 'world_map.shp')
>>
>>
>>
>> To make the question more general, is it possible to add resources to 
>> a plugin in a way that projects point to these resources and make 
>> that work for other users too?
>>
>>
>> Hope anyone can help!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Raymond
>>
>>
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