[Qgis-user] issues with Processing Options

Wed Jul 20 02:34:07 PDT 2016

Hi Johanna, 

Orfeo Toolbox (photogrammetry software) is quite specialized and is not
part of the standard QGIS distribution. I also have no experience with
it and can't help. 

GRASS is different - it's a general purpose GIS and should work well
with QGIS. What are you struggling with regarding GRASS? 

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The other question is: are you (I mean your Windows user account) a
long-time QGIS user who upgraded from older versions? If yes, it can
mean that some "out-of-the-box" settings don't apply, since you already
have settings and they won't get overwritten (people wouldn't like
that). So to judge things, it may be interesting to try from a new
Windows user account and test if things work fine for a new and clean
user account. You could then compare the settings and copy them over to
the production user who upgraded from older QGIS. 

Andreas 

On 2016-07-20 10:45, Johanna Botman wrote:

> Hi Andreas, 
> 
> I was having specific issues with Orfeo Toolbox and GRASS. I'm running QGIS 2.14.1. 
> 
> I work where I have no permissions on my PC, so I struggle with basic read/write. My IT unit don't like installing via OSGeo - so that doesn't help either. 
> 
> Johanna 
> 
> FROM: Neumann, Andreas [mailto:a.neumann at carto.net] 
> SENT: Wednesday, 20 July 2016 5:13 PM
> TO: Johanna Botman <Johanna.Botman at griffith.nsw.gov.au>
> CC: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> SUBJECT: Re: [Qgis-user] issues with Processing Options 
> 
> Hi Johanna, 
> 
> Which provider are you talking about? 
> 
> You have to understand that Processing is an open and extensible system - many providers can't be shipped with QGIS, because they are very domain-specific and would bloat QGIS or because of licensing issues. Hence they need to be installed and configured separately. 
> 
> However, processing providers that are shipped along with QGIS, such as GDAL/OGR/Postgis/GRASS/Saga should work out of the box and I agree with you, it shouldn't require extra configuration ideally. So what provider are you talking about? 
> 
> Greetings,
> Andreas 
> 
> On 2016-07-20 01:39, Johanna Botman wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I always struggle with the Options in Processing when I try to insert the correct path for a Provider. Is there anywhere that there is some documentation about what those settings should be?
>> 
>> I do realise that these come from a variety of sources and may vary from installation to installation. But isn't it time that QGIS moved away from users needing to know the intricacies of each installation? Why can't QGIS work straight out from the installation by now? I want to be getting on with my GIS work and analysis of data. I don't need to know about the details of the entrails, do I?
>> 
>> And yes, I am a Windows user and I am quite happy with being provided with an .exe file that just installs everything I need.
>> 
>> <end rant>
>> 
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>> 
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