[Qgis-user] Feature Discussion

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Steven,

So basically this would be a "shortcut". Rather than first having to
load a table first into the layer tree it would be loaded and joined
directly from another layer.

Some remarks/questions:

* For QGIS 2.0 it is too late. Feature freeze is in place. But something
to consider in QGIS 2.1

* Would this loaded table appear in the layer tree as a separate table
or not?

* If we do this, one should treat all formats equal. Any table should
joinable/loadable in this way - not just txt/csv/spreadsheets.

I don't have a strong opinion on it. It would be more convenient, but it
is not on my own personal list of top priorities.

Will you be at the QGIS developer meeting? Matthias Kuhn is working on
new database relations functions. This means that the whole joining and
relations will be enhanced in QGIS 2.1. If you can make it to the QGIS
developer meeting you could join the discussion there - see
http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/10_QGIS_Developer_Meeting_in_Brighton_2013
for more information. The Borough of Poole does not seem to far away
from Brighton - maybe you can join us for a day?

Andreas


Am 27.08.2013 12:50, schrieb Steven Campbell:
> Hi all
> 
> After a brief conversation with a couple of people on Twitter I was wondering what the community's thoughts were on the following:
> 
> Adding a button into Joins section/tab under Layer Properties that would enable a user to join a tabular dataset (csv, txt etc) to an existing layer in QGIS. You can do this at present, by first brining in a Delimited Text Layer and then running the join, but I think that adding this button would make it easier/quicker for a user to join tabular data in QGIS. I'd especially see this being useful with datasets that have a geographic reference column i.e. a postcode column, but no geospatial co-ordinate reference system (Easting and Northing). I would also add that this is a similar function to what is available in most commercial GIS packages...
> 
> I'd appreciate any comments/suggestions before raising as a feature request (if deemed a good idea!)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Steve
> 
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