[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #2658: QgsVectorLayer.select( QgsVectorLayer.extent(), true) does not return all features

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#2658: QgsVectorLayer.select( QgsVectorLayer.extent(), true) does not return all
features
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        Reporter:  ersts                             |         Owner:  nobody       
            Type:  bug                               |        Status:  closed       
        Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |     Milestone:  Version 1.5.0
       Component:  Vectors                           |       Version:  HEAD         
      Resolution:  wontfix                           |      Keywords:               
Platform_version:  Ubuntu 10.04                      |      Platform:  Linux        
        Must_fix:  Yes                               |   Status_info:  0            
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Comment (by wonder):

 Well, I am not sure what can we do here apart from expanding the extent
 with some small deltas when doing the select, because the spatial
 filtering is typically done in third-party libraries.

 CGAL library has an interesting article on the topic:
 http://www.cgal.org/philosophy.html

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/2658#comment:3>
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