[Qgis-user] Profiles

[Nyall Dawson]

On 3 February 2018 at 17:48, Saber Razmjooei
<saber.razmjooei at lutraconsulting.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
>
> Each of those profile tools uses a different library for plotting.
>
> I think for migration to QGIS 3, it is best to use Qt Charts module which
> has been GPLed since Qt 5.7:
>
> http://doc.qt.io/QtCharts/
>
> IMO, profile tool should be a core QGIS function.

+1 billion.

Related features which should be added at the same time:
- Allow the chart to show a profile of a line from existing z (or m)
values (e.g. no raster dem required)
- A processing algorithm to set z/m values in a line/point/polygon
from a raster band

Nyall


>
> Regards
> Saber
>
> On 1 Feb 2018 12:53, "Paolo Cavallini" <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> while revising featured plugins, I checked the current situation with
>> plugins dealing with profiles.
>> Currently searching for profile
>> http://plugins.qgis.org/search/?q=profile
>>
>> returns the following:
>>
>>  [87] Profile tool
>>
>> [625] ProfileFromPoints
>>
>> [789] swath profile
>>
>> [609] Temporal/Spectral Profile Tool
>>
>> [33] Profile from Line
>>
>> [294] qProf
>>
>> [376] VoGIS-ProfilTool
>>
>> [127] EarthBeat
>>
>> [1240] Geo Picker
>>
>> [407] geopunt4Qgis
>>
>> There is obviously a large overlap between many of them. We already
>> analysed this long ago, and things have not improved.
>> I will be grateful if users:
>> * could confirm which of the bunch they find most useful
>> * could confirm whether some of them should be deprecated because it is
>> not working well
>> * would help identifying areas of overlap, and help me convincing
>> authors to merge their work, possibly in just one plugin, better if
>> within Processing.
>> All the best, and thanks.
>> --
>> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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