[Qgis-psc] outstanding issues

[Nyall Dawson]

On 14 November 2015 at 19:21, Neumann, Andreas <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just for information:
>
> The shapefile issue: Sourcepole will be working on that - paid by state of
> Vorarlberg.
>
> About finances: without knowing how much something costs - I can't answer -
> but in general - if it is not too expensive we can certainly pay someone to
> fix the area calculation issue. Nyall - any estimates? Do you want to work
> on that?

I'd love to, it's a really bad experience for users at the moment.
I'll send through a proposal for you regarding this. The fix itself
isn't terribly complex, it's just getting the user experience for this
right which is the tricky bit. I'll detail how I think this should be
handled in the proposal.

Regards,
Nyall


>
> Andreas
>
> On 2015-11-13 20:46, Anita Graser wrote:
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at qgis.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> On 13 Nov 2015, at 20:40, Giovanni Manghi <giovanni.manghi at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear PSC, good afternoon,
>>
>> during the dev meeting the attention was raised about one outstanding
>> issue we have right now in QGIS > 2.8.*.... ftools tools are basically
>> broken (we have evidence that at least in some case they return wrong
>> results). I think that will make a resume about this meeting (Werner
>> if I'm wrong then I can try to do it).
>>
>> Anyway I would also to raise the attention about two other outstanding
>> issues, that are not recent and that I think need to be addressed as
>> soon as possible (before the next LTR release) and with enough advance
>> to allow test the fixes in a proper way. What am I speaking about?
>>
>> * qgis still computes wrong areas when OTF is on, see for example:
>> http://hub.qgis.org/issues/13209
>>
>> this is one of the problems with areas, the others being that areas
>> are always computed in square meters even if the CRS is in feet, and
>> the other is that in virtual columns areas are always computed on a
>> plane (ignoring ellipsoid configuration)
>>
>>
>> * shapefile with geometries edited in qgis (deleted, splitted, etc)
>> are unusable in other gis packages, see:
>> http://hub.qgis.org/issues/11007
>>
>>
>> as I said this are not recent issues, and in my point of view very very
>> bad.
>>
>>
>> Andreas could we allocate some funds for taking care of this and releasing
>> 2.8.4? It seems like a very good way to spend donated project money.
>
>
>
> +1
>
> Best wishes,
> Anita
>
>
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