[Qgis-user] What QGIS plugin development should I work on this year?

[Mike Flannigan]

My biggest problem with qgis is handling of layers and groups.
Copying styles from one layer to another (or 10 other layers)
should be easier.  Unchecking (hiding) 20 layers at once
cannot be done by me right now without grouping them.  There
are likely many other examples I can't think of right now.

I see quite a few plugins related to layers, and to be honest
I have not tried them all out.  But so far I have not found the
layer handler I want.


Mike


On 1/26/23 14:00, qgis-user-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
> Hi QGIS users,
>
> I am looking for ideas for what QGIS development I should be working on
> this year. My plugin development over the years has focused on capabilities
> that were missing at the time or algorithms that made QGIS user's lives
> easier. Here are the plugins I've developed so far.
>
> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/author/C%2520Hamilton/
>
> I am interested in algorithms that may be in commercial software but not in
> QGIS that people need. I am also interested in different ways to visualize
> and analyze data. Last year I released the Density Analysis plugin
> <https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/densityanalysis/>. It added additional
> density analysis algorithms including a fast H3 histogram of an area. I
> never got any feedback on the plugin so I don't know whether it is
> useful or not to users, but it has had 11,608 downloads since last June. I
> always appreciate feedback as it is what encourages me to continue
> development.
>
> I have been debating on updating the D3 Data Visualization plugin
> <https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/d3datavis/>  to use plotly to create the
> graph and perhaps add additional graphs. That was one of my early plugins
> where I created my own D3 graph of the data. It could probably be done
> better.
>
> Are there any algorithms that you would like to have developed? It may be
> that QGIS is getting sufficiently advanced that there is not much that is
> really needed any more, but if you have any ideas I would appreciate them.
> Anything I work on needs to benefit a sizable number of users. It can't be
> too specific. It also needs to be constrained enough that I can complete in
> a reasonable amount of time.
>
> If you have any ideas for improving my existing plugins that could be an
> option as well.
>
> By the way is there a better forum than this qgis-user group to reach out
> to QGIS users or is this the best way?
>
> Thanks for your input!
>
> Calvin