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

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey Tim,

Yes I yanked that file from Natural Earth and I think it might have
simplified it a little bit to reduce the file size but it's the same file.

Regards,
Nathan

On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 7:25 PM Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> If I am not mistaken, the world map comes from Nathan Woodrow (he added it
> for the projection selector widget):
>
> [timlinux at sandstone ~/dev/cpp/QGIS/resources/data (master)]$ git log
> world_map.shp
> commit cf241f51ae2ae4ae225c9af65690aa2a5524df04
> Author: Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>
> Date:   Mon Oct 16 10:40:05 2017 +1000
>
>     [FEATURE][needs-docs] Show projection bounds in projection widget
> (#5356)
>
>
>     - Script to pull bounds from EPSG.org Postgres dump
>     - Add resources/data/world_map.shp for reference
>     - Show canvas bounds for reference
>
> I’m guessing it comes from Natural Earth, but he would need to confirm.
> Nathan can you add a license for that file?
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On 7 Jun 2019, at 09:53, Áron Gergely <aron.gergely at rasterra.nl> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> <world.jpg>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On 27 May 2019, at 14:58, Raymond Nijssen <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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