[Qgis-user] New Apple Macintosh ARM Chipsets

Andreas Neumann a.neumann at carto.net
Fri Jul 10 07:05:13 PDT 2020


Hi Michael, 

Or you could buy a used Intel Mac that is only 1-3 years old. I would
assume that many Apple afficionados are eager to jump to new hardware
and would give away the old Intel stuff for a bargain. If QGIS is
important to you, that might be a better deal than becoming an early
adopter of arm hardware and suffer from all the early problems. Over the
years - after all the major problems are solved, I would agree that a
more energy efficient processor sounds compelling. 

About documentation: documenter are always welcome. The introduction can
be found at https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/document.html -
there is a dedicated mailing list for documenters and you need a github
account. 

Thanks in advance for your efforts in joining the documentation team! 

Greetings, 

Andreas 

On 2020-07-10 15:51, Michael Goldstein wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who responded to my email.
> 
> I'm currently running a 27" late-2013 iMac, whose life I extended by upgrading the boot drive to SSD.  While it's still a capable machine, I don't think it has 2+ more years left in it.  Sigh.  So I may be forced to make the ARM transition sooner rather than later, unless I decide to upgrade to an Intel iMac instead (which is not so desirable given my other commitments to the Apple eco-system)..
> 
> I've been running QGIS on Macs since 1.x.  Over the years Mac support has been spotty even into the 3.xx era.  For example, a few months ago I had to run the Windows version in a VM to export a georeferenced PDF. That was a python issue, I think... QGIS 3.8 needed a later version of phython which didn't then exist for Mac.  That said, a sincere thanks to kyngchaos making it possible to run on Mac at all for many of those years!
> 
> Good news that the port to ARM should be straight-forward.  I do hope it becomes a priority because the inherent energy efficiency of the ARM chipsets should make for some compelling hardware, particularly for laptop users.
> 
> Finally, I would like to volunteer to write some documentation.  What's the best way to do that?
> 
> Michael
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> 1. export a composite image to kmz format (carlos h)
> 2. Re: New Apple Macintosh ARM Chipsets
> (Priv.-Doz. Dr. Maria Shinoto)
> 3. Re: export a composite image to kmz format (Nicolas Cadieux)
> 4. Re: Closest Distance of a point within a polygon to the
> closest part of that polygon and the name of the adjacent    polygon
> with the common boarder (David Kabay)
> 5. Re: New Apple Macintosh ARM Chipsets (Saber Razmjooei)
> 6. Re: New Apple Macintosh ARM Chipsets (Andreas Neumann)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 17:07:14 -0600
> From: carlos h <carloslda256 at gmail.com>
> To: qgis-user <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [Qgis-user] export a composite image to kmz format
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> Hello! I am with QGis version 3.10.x.
> 
> How can I export a composite image to kmz format?
> 
> Thank you
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> CA
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> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 23:34:00 +0000
> From: "Priv.-Doz. Dr. Maria Shinoto"
> <maria.shinoto at zaw.uni-heidelberg.de>
> To: Michael Goldstein <michael.goldstein7 at gmail.com>
> Cc: "qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org" <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] New Apple Macintosh ARM Chipsets
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> Hi,
> 
> earlier posts said that a port to ARM architecture should not be too big of a problem.
> 
> I do not remember the details, but my conclusion was: Just wait, no problems to expect.
> 
> But I have to admit that I own a MacBook Pro from 2019 and do not plan to change in the next five or more years. I would hesitate to buy ARM architecture in the next 12 months anyway.
> 
> Best,
> Maria
> 
> Am 09.07.2020 um 22:57 schrieb Michael Goldstein <michael.goldstein7 at gmail.com>:
> 
> I've just joined this email list, so if this has been covered earlier, I apologize.  Also, let me know if I should be directing this question to a different mailing list (Developer list?).
> 
> Do plans exist to port QGIS to the new Apple Mac ARM architecture?
> 
> While I am not technical enough to help with the coding/re-compiling, I am a good documentation writer and would be happy to help document a new Mac release.  How should I volunteer?
> 
> Michael
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> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 20:08:15 -0400
> From: Nicolas Cadieux <njacadieux.gitlab at gmail.com>
> To: carlos h <carloslda256 at gmail.com>
> Cc: qgis-user <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] export a composite image to kmz format
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> Hi,
> I believe only Vector layers are supported. Kmz is a zipped kml.
> Nicolas
> 
> https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/kml.html
> 
> Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML-based language for managing the display of 3D geospatial data. KML has been accepted as an OGC standard, and is supported in one way or another on the major GeoBrowsers. Note that KML by specification uses only a single projection, EPSG:4326. All OGR KML output will be presented in EPSG:4326. As such OGR will create layers in the correct coordinate system and transform any geometries.
> 
> At this time, only vector layers are handled by the KML driver. (there are additional scripts supplied with the GDAL project that can build other kinds of output)
> 
> Nicolas Cadieux
> Ça va bien aller!
> 
> Le 9 juill. 2020 à 19:07, carlos h <carloslda256 at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Hello! I am with QGis version 3.10.x.
> 
> How can I export a composite image to kmz format?
> 
> Thank you
> --
> CA
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> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 12:19:23 +0800
> From: "David Kabay" <dkabay at iinet.net.au>
> To: <Qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Closest Distance of a point within a polygon
> to the    closest part of that polygon and the name of the adjacent
> polygon with the common boarder
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> Hi
> I have a challenge.  I have 2 vector data sets.  One is point vectors
> (Occurrence of a soil fungus  Pc at a point  +red  with a year of sampling
> as a label)  and polygon vectors that show the various surface geologies in
> an area ( the name is on the boundary (purple)  Inside of the one it is
> e.g. S10, S8 Mc1 etc.
> QGIS can give me the number of Pc sample points in each polygon which I have
> done.  I want to be able to get the distance from the point to the NEAREST
> boundary and the other name of the surface geology of the closest adjoining
> polygon I want it for all Pc points
> How do I do that in QGIS ??
> Thanks Dave
> Dave Kabay
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> From: Saber Razmjooei <saber.razmjooei at lutraconsulting.co.uk>
> To: "Priv.-Doz. Dr. Maria Shinoto"
> <maria.shinoto at zaw.uni-heidelberg.de>
> Cc: Michael Goldstein <michael.goldstein7 at gmail.com>,
> "qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org" <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] New Apple Macintosh ARM Chipsets
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> Hi
> 
> We have already ported QGIS to iOS for Input app (https://inputapp.io and
> https://github.com/lutraconsulting/input-sdk/tree/master/ios). iOS is ARM
> based architecture. Hence, it should be possible and straightforward to
> support the new mac ARM too. It also depends on the upstream support from
> Apple, Qt, Python...
> 
> Kind regards
> Saber
> 
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 00:33, Priv.-Doz. Dr. Maria Shinoto <
> maria.shinoto at zaw.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> earlier posts said that a port to ARM architecture should not be too big
> of a problem.
> 
> I do not remember the details, but my conclusion was: Just wait, no
> problems to expect.
> 
> But I have to admit that I own a MacBook Pro from 2019 and do not plan to
> change in the next five or more years. I would hesitate to buy ARM
> architecture in the next 12 months anyway.
> 
> Best,
> Maria
> 
> Am 09.07.2020 um 22:57 schrieb Michael Goldstein < michael.goldstein7 at gmail.com>: 
> I've just joined this email list, so if this has been covered earlier, I apologize.  Also, let me know if I should be directing this question to a
> different mailing list (Developer list?). Do plans exist to port QGIS to the new Apple Mac ARM architecture?
> 
> While I am not technical enough to help with the coding/re-compiling, I am a good documentation writer and would be happy to help document a new
> Mac release.  How should I volunteer? Michael
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