[SoC] Week 11: Web API plugin for QGIS Desktop
Kevin Stadler
e0425926 at student.tuwien.ac.at
Sat Aug 12 10:28:48 PDT 2017
Good call, I'll prepare a wee writeup of the different ways to
instantiate a QgsCoordinateReferenceSystem from PyQGIS and what their
respective consequences are for Monday!
On 12 August 2017 at 19:00, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hkmyricaria at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kevin,
>
>
>>- It's not clear what the best/most robust way of passing complex CRS
>>specifications to QGIS is, neither WKT nor proj4 seem to be reliable
>>in all cases, see here:
>>https://gitlab.com/qgisapi/rqgisapi/issues/4#note_37258236
>
> if not already done, it's maybe worth to post the issue in the QGIS dev ML.
>
> Kind regards
> Helmut
>
>
> Am 12.08.2017 6:33 nachm. schrieb "Kevin Stadler"
> <e0425926 at student.tuwien.ac.at>:
>
> 1. What did you get done this week?
>
> Activities split by deliverable/repository:
>
> 1.a QGIS plugin (https://gitlab.com/qgisapi/networkapi/commits/master)
>
> - added passing (and parsing) of CRS arguments to various (new)
> methods, most importantly iface.addVectorLayer
>
> - brought some argument names in line with the QGIS API as well as
> several other fixes
>
>
> 1.b R package (https://gitlab.com/qgisapi/rqgisapi/commits/master)
>
> - added more methods (setExtent, setDestinationCrs, mapLayer.crs,
> mapLayer.setCrs
>
> - added support for and better handling/passing of CRS objects
>
> - added support for Spatial* classes to iface.addVectorLayer
>
> - several other fixes and documentation updates
>
>
> 1.c documentation and outreach
>
> - Finished complete Rmarkdown replication of the MalariaRisk notebook,
> have a look at it here:
> http://qgisapi.gitlab.io/qgis-notebooks/MalariaRisk.html
>
> - More R package documentation at
> http://qgisapi.gitlab.io/rqgisapi/reference/index.html
>
>
>
> 2. What do you plan on doing next week?
>
> - try implementing dynamic application of styles using a JSON-based
> "QGISPythonClassName": [ constructor-args ] format
>
> - fix CRS passing (see below)
>
> - add no more features! move on to wrapping up work, fixing bugs and
> creating documentation for the end of the project
>
>
> 3. Are you blocked on anything?
>
> - It's not clear what the best/most robust way of passing complex CRS
> specifications to QGIS is, neither WKT nor proj4 seem to be reliable
> in all cases, see here:
> https://gitlab.com/qgisapi/rqgisapi/issues/4#note_37258236
>
> - A very general question that might be of interest to other
> (self-contained) GSoC projects too: what is the recommended open
> source license for the project? The QGIS plugin template that we
> started off with has a reference to GPL-2 in it with the copyright
> retained by the plugin author (rather than passing it on to the Free
> Software Foundation), for the R package we haven't chosen a license
> yet at all. Any input is welcome on this!
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