#QGIS IRC Log - 2009-03-28

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00:00:31 sigq: tracfeed: Ticket #1599 ( bug created ): WMS and WFS problems with GeoServer <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1599>
01:54:52 steko: hi
01:55:10 steko: is the georef in trunk working ?
01:55:14 steko: I have a problem
01:55:34 steko: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/109978/
01:55:37 sigq: Title: Paste #109978 | LodgeIt! ( at paste.pocoo.org )
02:03:18 zikzak: Good morning
02:04:40 zikzak: I have to question concerning QGIS.
02:10:30 zikzak: First: Using some WMS sources I tried to view the maps at a scale about approximately 1:5000, but the scale shown in the status line at the bottom is far, far away from that value. Why?
02:14:37 steko: zikzak: did you define a project CRS ?
02:16:31 zikzak: I chose a CRS at Settings / Project Properties / Coordinate Reference System ( CRS ) - is that enough?
02:17:45 zikzak: Second: In the Print Composer window values entered for the scale are not accepted or changed.
02:20:25 timlinux: hi
02:20:40 timlinux: @seen giohappy
02:20:41 sigq: timlinux: giohappy was last seen in #qgis 16 hours, 26 minutes, and 45 seconds ago: <giohappy> see you, and thanks...
02:26:57 zikzak: steko: Grazie for your hint -- I found the solution: I had to change the map units from "Decimal degrees" to "Meters". Seems this solved both problems.
02:27:23 steko: zikzak: you're welcome! : )
02:48:20 zikzak: Is it possible to change the ( center of the ) view of the map to a certain coordinate? I did not found an edit field for this.
02:49:40 sigq: tracfeed: Ticket #1600 ( bug created ): georeferencer fails with Critical error <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1600>
02:49:48 steko: zikzak: you might try the "bookmark feature"
02:49:54 steko: not sure
02:52:39 zikzak: steko: I did found that. But I have a coordinate pair written down, and I want to change the view of the map to that coordinates.
03:10:01 macho: steko: cant reproduce the georeferencer problem -it works fine here
03:10:11 steko: macho: :(
03:11:13 macho: probably youre missing a dep library?
03:11:49 steko: macho: ,.. which one ?
03:11:52 steko: and why ?
03:12:38 macho: dont know - it's just a guess
03:13:37 steko: macho: it should have complained at compile time if there's a missing library ... right ?
03:14:27 macho: hmm - not necessarily
03:14:52 timlinux: steko: are you having a compile problem?
03:15:06 macho: if its not an essential thing - it just ignores it .. and compiles without the feature
03:15:09 steko: timlinux: no, a bug in the georef
03:15:18 steko: https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1600
03:15:20 sigq: Title: #1600 ( georeferencer fails with Critical error ) - Quantum GIS - Trac ( at trac.osgeo.org )
03:16:01 macho: oh steko you're right - i recompiled it and now i get the same error in console
03:16:25 steko: macho: great! ( well.. not so great actually... but at least you can confirm the bug )
03:16:41 macho: but maybe you only have to set a coordinate system ..
03:17:41 steko: macho: I have one defined in my project
03:18:20 macho: hmmm ..
03:20:38 macho: yeah - definitely something going wrong - i choose left bottom corner als 0/0 and i get left upper corner as 0/0
03:22:19 steko: macho: can't tell what's going wrong.. but for sure it doesn't generate the .wld file
03:22:55 macho: ACK
03:23:12 macho: i'll try it with the old stable the same way
03:24:32 macho: ok
03:24:36 macho: stable is working ..
03:24:49 macho: so there is a bug in georeferencer plugin in current trunk
03:25:03 timlinux: @seen gsherman
03:25:03 sigq: timlinux: gsherman was last seen in #qgis 13 hours, 2 minutes, and 15 seconds ago: <gsherman> jaundiced jaberwocky?
03:25:35 steko: macho: there has been some work in the georef recently, I think
03:26:03 macho: at least between stable and trunk the gui has been reworked
03:26:14 macho: but stable is working ..
03:27:07 steko: macho: just the GUI ?
03:27:09 sigq: tracfeed: Ticket #1601 ( bug created ): qgis crashes when "zooming out" <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1601>
03:27:17 steko: this doesn't look like a GUI problem ..
03:30:37 epifanio: i just tried it on a tif + TFW, using both linear or helmert method .. now it generate a tfw .. but it is wrong
03:31:14 epifanio: again .. tring to sovrave the generated layer to have a new one .. qgis crash
03:31:59 epifanio: *sovrave -> rewrite
03:35:29 macho: steko: its definitely not only a gui problem ..
03:40:45 epifanio: hummm
03:41:00 epifanio: i tried on a different tif file
03:41:06 epifanio: and now it works
03:41:16 epifanio: weird!
03:41:29 steko: epifanio: your file had a tfw already ?
03:41:41 steko: I'm trying to georeference a scanned map ( no tfw )
03:42:24 epifanio: i've a file.tif + .tfw on my desktop . then i copied the same file ( without .tfw ) in a different directory
03:42:46 epifanio: and i used the file without .tfw in the georeferencer load-file dialog
03:44:00 steko: epifanio: ah
03:45:37 steko: I've tried again, also giving fake points at corners.. and it still fails
03:46:54 epifanio: look that the same procedure on the first file .. now works it too
03:47:16 epifanio: yes, maybe is a "corner" problem .. click on on data :- )
03:48:50 : * epifanio isn't a terrorist ... the georeferencer works ;- )
03:55:09 CIA-56: wonder * r10434 /trunk/qgis/ ( 4 files in 3 dirs ): added icon for plugin installer in plugin manager
03:55:11 sigq: tracfeed: Changeset [10434]: added icon for plugin installer in plugin manager <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/changeset/10434>
05:20:57 CIA-56: mhugent * r10435 /trunk/qgis/src/app/qgisapp.cpp: display layer name for WMS layers instead of server to distinguish several layers from the same WMS
05:21:42 CIA-56: mhugent * r10436 /trunk/qgis/src/plugins/georeferencer/qgspointdialog.cpp: fix for georeferencing with linear transformation
05:28:57 timlinux: jef: you about dude?
05:29:30 jef: timlinux: what's up?
05:32:13 timlinux: jef Im trying to fix the final error with msvc build
05:32:23 timlinux: can you remember from the hackfest?
05:32:32 timlinux: a linking error with pyqt4
05:32:48 timlinux: doing a bit of googling, it seems others had the same issue
05:32:56 timlinux: http://forum.qgis.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4569&p=7526&hilit=pyqt4#p7526
05:32:57 sigq: Title: Quantum GIS Forum View topic - 1.0.1 plug in problem on WinXP ( at forum.qgis.org )
05:32:59 doktoreas_: hi folks
05:33:04 timlinux: but using your osgeo4w build
05:33:14 timlinux: Im wondering if that can offer us any clues
05:33:23 timlinux: hi doktoreas_
05:33:26 doktoreas_: today I had a GIS course using QGis..got some troubles with actions
05:33:28 doktoreas_: hi timlinux !
05:33:50 timlinux: your actions are out of action?
05:33:53 doktoreas_: yep
05:34:00 timlinux: how did the course go?
05:34:05 doktoreas_: clicking one make qgis crash
05:34:09 doktoreas_: oh, very nice
05:34:13 timlinux: in stable?
05:34:17 timlinux: or trunk?
05:34:18 doktoreas_: 0.11
05:34:23 timlinux: ouch
05:34:28 doktoreas_: people is happy with Qgis
05:34:39 timlinux: can you replicate in 1.0.1?
05:34:44 timlinux: maybe its already fixed
05:34:47 doktoreas_: timlinux, using osgeo4w?
05:34:55 jef: timlinux: is your path also cluttered with lots of non-osgeo4w things?
05:35:06 timlinux: or the recently posted mingw build
05:35:12 timlinux: jef no
05:35:29 timlinux: jef 1 sec Ill show you what mine says
05:35:40 jef: timlinux: that post has a separate python install and another qgis install.
05:35:42 timlinux: ['C:/Program Files/qgis1.0.2/./python', 'C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/.qgis//python/plugins', 'C:/Program Files/qgis1.0.2/./python/plugins', 'C:\\Program Files\\qgis1.0.2\\bin\\python25.zip', '.\\DLLs', '.\\lib', '.\\lib\\plat-win', '.\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\Program Files\\qgis1.0.2\\bin']
05:35:46 doktoreas_: timlinux, I'll let you know about actions in 1.0.1
05:35:55 timlinux: jef: right
05:36:07 timlinux: and she gets the same symptoms as mine
05:36:25 timlinux: let me tripple check that I have no other python installed
05:36:38 doktoreas_: timlinux, it's a "social" course..the fee is low and part of the ammount will be donated to QGis
05:36:46 timlinux: doktoreas_: nice
05:36:49 doktoreas_: at the end of the course :D
05:37:06 timlinux: doktoreas_: you should post a story to http://blog.qgis.org
05:37:07 sigq: Title: Quantum GIS Blog | Dev-Speak and other QGIS Ramblings... ( at blog.qgis.org )
05:37:24 timlinux: its always nice to see what folks are up to
05:37:43 doktoreas_: you can do a 20 hourse course and people pay about 100€
05:37:49 doktoreas_: *hours
05:38:03 doktoreas_: I got the fuel amount and the rest go for developers
05:38:08 doktoreas_: I think we can promote those things
05:38:32 timlinux: doktoreas_: very nice
05:38:51 timlinux: we are having another course for qgis here in Johannesburg soo
05:38:55 timlinux: soon
05:39:00 doktoreas_: nice
05:39:17 timlinux: will be only a basic fee to cover costs
05:39:31 doktoreas_: same here..
05:39:44 doktoreas_: the extra will go for developers
05:39:44 timlinux: jef Im searching my hd for python.dll
05:39:58 doktoreas_: tim is there any news on the standalone 1.0.1 installer?
05:40:13 timlinux: doktoreas_: Im busy working on it right now
05:40:19 timlinux: there was a mingw one announced
05:40:25 timlinux: but its missing grass and python
05:40:38 timlinux: so I didn't post it to download site yet
05:41:16 doktoreas_: for me would be fine :D
05:41:21 jef: timlinux: did you check site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.pyd with depends?
05:41:37 timlinux: no let me do that
05:41:39 timlinux: 1 sec
05:41:54 doktoreas_: ti I was thinking...if we prepare the materials for a course: slideshow, setup, sample data and we host it on the official site
05:42:07 timlinux: doktoreas_: that would be great
05:42:07 doktoreas_: we can promove this sort of found raising
05:42:17 timlinux: maybe we can translate it to eng
05:42:25 timlinux: will save us some work
05:42:29 timlinux: for the course we do
05:42:38 doktoreas_: would be nice
05:42:58 doktoreas_: just an introduction course..I'll think about
05:43:12 doktoreas_: c u later
05:43:25 simgislab: doktoreas_: do you have course program somewhere available?
05:43:47 simgislab: we're thinking about developing a qgis-based course too
05:44:03 doktoreas_: simgislab, it's in italian, but I can translate for you
05:44:18 simgislab: would be great!
05:44:30 timlinux: jef my QtCore.pyd is under c:\progfiles\qgis1.0.2\python\PyQt4
05:45:51 timlinux: jef looks like it misses msvcr80.dll
05:46:02 timlinux: I remember we played around with that dll
05:46:55 jef: timlinux: still using 2005? did you install the vcredist package for 2005?
05:47:14 timlinux: yes and yes iirc
05:47:22 timlinux: let me double check on second
05:47:40 timlinux: note above was looking for 2008 dll thoguh
05:47:49 timlinux: so maybe I need the vcredist for 2008?
05:48:25 jef: timlinux: you need that anyway. but that would be msvcr90.dll
05:48:42 jef: timlinux: qt and pyqt are build with 2008.
05:50:07 timlinux: ok adding msvcr80 and msvcp dlls into qgis 1.01 dir make dep walker happy
05:50:18 : * timlinux tries to launch
05:50:40 timlinux: gah
05:50:48 timlinux: let me try with msvcr90
05:51:17 : * timlinux thinks he should just google for every dll in existance and add it into his bin dir :- )
05:53:24 jef: timlinux: I'm not sure that'll suffice. You might still need the assemblies in place to get the dlls to work.
05:53:42 timlinux: Ill download the redist for msvc2008
05:53:44 timlinux: ?
05:54:20 timlinux: can you remind me of how you addressed this in osgeo4w?
05:55:16 jef: timlinux: the msvcrt package installs the redist package
05:55:51 jef: timlinux: so it's in the tar.bz2 you already should have.
05:56:37 timlinux: is it installed with a scope local the osgeo4w dir rather than system wide?
05:58:28 jef: no
06:00:41 timlinux: so then shouldn't my build already see the msvcrt package since osgeo4w is installed
06:01:50 FrankW: I would think so, for the version of of msvcrt installed by the redist.
06:02:24 timlinux: FrankW: hi
06:02:30 FrankW: hi
06:03:46 doktoreas: timlinux: the actions problem is also on 1.0.1
06:04:17 timlinux: doktoreas: ok
06:08:27 sigq: tracfeed: Ticket #1315 ( bug reopened ): "Actions" in qgis do not work on MS windows <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1315#comment:4>
06:17:26 timlinux: jef: hmm stll no joy
06:18:09 timlinux: I ran the redist.exe from in that msvcrt tarball
06:18:19 timlinux: and for good measure dropped the dlls it contains into my bin dir
06:23:55 jef: timlinux: before or after you found that it was not working?
06:24:23 timlinux: before
06:24:36 timlinux: Ill remove them aagain and see what happens
06:25:20 timlinux: ok same thing without those dlls
06:28:24 jef: timlinux: and depends is still happy? what about QtGui?
06:28:35 timlinux: let me check
06:32:03 timlinux: so going through them all again:
06:32:15 timlinux: qgis.exe has only ? dwmapu.dll, shlwapi.dll and mpr.dll
06:32:24 timlinux: next qtgui:
06:33:07 timlinux: same as above
06:33:13 timlinux: qtcore: same as above
06:33:23 timlinux: checking pyd's now...
06:35:51 timlinux: qtgui.pyd complains msvcp80.dll and msvcr80.dll are missing
06:38:15 jef: timlinux: odd. directly?
06:38:34 timlinux: how do you mean 'directly' ?
06:39:09 timlinux: qtcore.pyd has same complaint
06:40:22 timlinux: if I add those dlls to the c:\program files\qgis1.0.2
06:40:22 jef: timlinux: qtgui.pyd should only link with r90. if there is a dependency to r80 that must be in some dll it depends on. I don't have that here.
06:40:25 timlinux: \bin dir
06:40:31 timlinux: then the issue gies away
06:40:39 timlinux: goes
06:41:01 timlinux: jef: hmm that's odd
06:41:19 timlinux: I'm using the same dlls as you here I thought
06:42:09 jef: timlinux: me too. where is the r80 dependency? look into the tree.
06:42:23 timlinux: looking
06:46:56 timlinux: c:\program files\qgis1.0.2\bin\QTCORE4.DLL
06:48:30 jef: timlinux: did you rebuild qt?
06:48:36 timlinux: note that if I open QtCore4.dll it doesn't show that missing dependency
06:48:41 timlinux: nope
06:48:58 jef: timlinux: http://buten.norbit.de/~jef/QtGui.txt is what I get
06:53:28 timlinux: jef how did you get that text dump? dwi image?
06:53:52 jef: timlinux: no, save as, and then text
06:57:21 timlinux: jef: http://rafb.net/p/BwboOk91.html
06:57:22 sigq: Title: Nopaste - No description ( at rafb.net )
06:57:23 timlinux: and
07:01:13 timlinux: http://rafb.net/p/SiKJNw77.html
07:01:14 sigq: Title: Nopaste - No description ( at rafb.net )
07:07:08 jef: timlinux: hm, looks like it's replacing r90 with r80 for you. did you also install 2008 redist package?
07:07:35 jef: got to go. be back in an hour or two.
07:09:05 timlinux: jef I think so yes
07:09:16 timlinux: jef ok - I have to go out too - Ill be back later
07:09:28 timlinux: thanks
08:30:29 macho: hi gsherman
08:30:36 gsherman: hi macho
08:31:51 macho: any news in alaska?
08:31:53 macho: ; )
08:32:13 gsherman: volcano has been erupting this week, air travel is a mess
08:33:05 gsherman: http://avo.alaska.edu/activity/Redoubt.php
08:33:06 sigq: Title: Alaska Volcano Observatory - Redoubt - Activity Page ( at avo.alaska.edu )
08:33:07 macho: a yes - i heard it somewhere - but you're not going by airplane anyway if i'm correctly informed ..
08:33:23 gsherman: right, but i have people coming here : )
08:33:55 gsherman: went to the airport last night and there where hundreds of bags that came in but the people were still stranded elsewhere
08:34:19 macho: where did the bags come from?
08:34:57 gsherman: seattle - the airlines are stuffing the few planes that do make it in with as many bags as they can, while the people sit waiting to get on one of the few planes...
08:35:41 macho: strange .. i always thought people are travelling _with_ their bags
08:36:23 gsherman: they do, except when 100 flights get cancelled the airlines don't know which flight the people have been rebooked on so they just get the bags on a plane to the destination, regardless
08:36:43 gsherman: all very messy
08:37:29 macho: so it's better to stay at home for now ..
08:37:43 gsherman: yes
08:45:50 gsherman: hmm, only 223 errors building trunk in xcode
08:50:22 macho: hmm do you know how i can find out the diff between revision 10435 and current which marko did to georeferencer?
08:50:32 macho: svnlookup diff?
08:50:32 gsherman: hmm, installing spatialite stuff didn't help much, now have 242
08:50:40 gsherman: svn diff with revision switch
08:51:25 macho: thx - but what is svnlookup for?
08:51:49 gsherman: svnlook or svnlookup?
08:52:07 macho: there is another command?
08:52:21 macho: svnlook
08:52:46 gsherman: svnlook lets you poke around in a repo without checking out any sources
08:53:42 gsherman: so you could do it with svnlook, but svn diff is probably easier
08:53:55 gsherman: ( since you don't need to specify the repo path )
08:54:06 macho: i tried with svnlook with no luck .. with svn it's been easy
08:55:10 jef: macho: hi. I'd use trac. http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/changeset
08:55:11 sigq: Title: Changeset 10436 - Quantum GIS - Trac ( at trac.osgeo.org )
08:56:09 macho: jef: trac is one of the things i'll never get into my mind : )
09:33:23 simgislab: hi all, does qgis have anything for querying shapefile? or postgis only?
09:33:55 gsherman: simgislab, you can select from the attribute table
09:39:56 simgislab: hmm, and how did I miss that ...
09:41:19 simgislab: gsherman: thanks
10:00:38 CIA-56: macho * r10437 /trunk/qgis/src/plugins/georeferencer/qgspointdialog.cpp: bringing back decoration to georeferencer plugin - can someone look after it because this is my first alone C commit
10:02:42 macho: didnt do very much except searching for the right point .. but i'm not quite sure if the fix is correct for all OS
10:19:08 CIA-56: kyngchaos * r10438 /trunk/qgis/mac/xcode/Qgis.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: Add default plugin installer icon ( sync with r10434 )
10:19:08 sigq: tracfeed: Changeset [10438]: Add default plugin installer icon ( sync with r10434 ) <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/changeset/10438>
11:57:53 simgislab: jef: hi, did you compile grass ( 6.4RC3 ) for osgeo4w?
11:58:36 jef: simgislab: yes
12:25:19 frostel: good evening
12:26:41 macho: evng
12:27:01 frostel: anybody volunteering to answer a newbie-question ;- )
12:27:32 jef: shoot
12:27:47 frostel: hi jef,
12:28:00 macho: depends on the question ; )
12:28:52 frostel: I'm coming from the CAD-world and wonder how it's possible to do something like drawing a rectangle with knwon dimensions at a known location
12:29:06 frostel: I couldn't find anything about this in the doc
12:29:32 frostel: or placing the nodes of a polygon at certain coords not just by mouse
12:29:58 macho: sound like something we discussed in the wishlist at FOSSGIS
12:30:46 frostel: I can't believe that all drawing currently happens by free hand
12:32:18 frostel: aren't there any plugins or workarounds?
12:34:56 macho: you mean to set a point at a definded point?
12:35:08 frostel: yes, for a start
12:36:31 macho: hmm - somebody said something about a plugin - but i'm not sure .. but .. GIS is not a CAD at all
12:38:29 jef: frostel: it's currently targeted to allow digitizing. so you have some kind of raster that you click along to build vector data.
12:40:00 frostel: okay, apparently I'm using the wrong kind of software. Is there any OSS CAD-app which allows me to keep the geo-ref and work with referenced aerials?
12:46:38 macho: ACAD Map
12:46:47 macho: but no OSS i guess
12:48:08 simgislab: jef: we were struggling with internationalizing grass to make use of existing PO files and it seems that there might be a problem with missing --with-nls support in the current build. Is it possible?
12:48:36 jef: simgislab: yes. rc3 was compiled without nls
12:49:08 simgislab: jef: ah, that's why our localization doesn't work! any plans to update it?
12:50:07 jef: simgislab: well, there are also some more problems. I'd like to have some python problems sorted out first.
12:50:22 simgislab: by GRASS crowd?
12:50:57 jef: simgislab: yes. I think martinl is on it.
12:53:52 frostel: is there at least a way to rotate polygons?
12:56:06 CIA-56: macho * r10439 /trunk/qgis/src/plugins/georeferencer/ ( plugin.cpp qgspointdialog.cpp ): moved decorations problem ( seems related to metacity ) to the right place and did ( hopefully ) the right thing with it
12:58:01 simgislab: jef: ok, thanks for info, do you think I should bug martin more about this or you're in sync?
13:02:05 jef: simgislab: there are a few people building grass on windows now - so I think there will be more and more things sorted out.
13:04:25 jef: markusN: hi. do you know if martinl is working on reproducing the wxvdigit/wxnviz on osgeo4w?
13:04:41 jef: markusN: I think he is on it - but I don't have a status.
13:04:54 markusN: nor me
13:05:07 markusN: but wxnviz is really LOW priority
13:05:16 markusN: it's "just" a prototype
13:05:30 markusN: with respect to all the other fixes recently done
13:06:11 jef: markusN: same for wxvdigit?
13:06:58 markusN: try to catch him in chat right now
13:09:13 markusN: ok he's working on that
13:09:23 markusN: higher priority
13:14:20 simgislab: is this the only thing that is holding RC4 or there are some more?
13:15:01 markusN: well, I would like to see a successful run on osgeo4w before putting out RC4
13:15:21 markusN: otherwise we publish RC4 and it still fails a lot and then we need imemdiately RC5 and so on
13:15:42 simgislab: sounds good to me
13:15:54 markusN: we have fixed a lot since RC3, just we need the binaries to test it
13:16:10 : * markusN failed to cross compile in Linux
13:18:42 : * timlinux wonders in
13:18:52 : * macho says hello to timlinux
13:18:57 CIA-56: macho * r10440 /branches/Version-1_0/i18n/ ( 28 files ): several translation updates to stable..
13:19:04 timlinux: hiya macho
13:19:11 : * markusN waves
13:19:42 macho: seems we are bringing 1.0 slowly to useable multilingual
13:19:43 sigq: tracfeed: Changeset [10440]: several translation updates to stable.. <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/changeset/10440>
13:19:46 timlinux: hi markusN
13:20:01 timlinux: macho: sterling job!
13:20:14 macho: but i need more translators ..
13:20:23 macho: or i have to learn a lot of languages ; )
13:20:25 markusN: timlinux: to bad that I missed to meet you in my former home town...
13:20:29 : * timlinux fires up vmware to smack the windows build a bit more
13:21:00 timlinux: markusN: yeah sorry - it would have been great to have you there at the hackfest
13:21:09 markusN: yeah my bad
13:21:10 simgislab: macho, we gonna bring you a whole team, just release it
13:21:20 markusN: but too busy here
13:21:22 timlinux: markusN: we made a bunch on silly videos etc during the hackfest
13:21:29 timlinux: http://blog.qgis.org
13:21:31 sigq: Title: Quantum GIS Blog | Dev-Speak and other QGIS Ramblings... ( at blog.qgis.org )
13:21:48 markusN: seen that, still to look at them
13:23:08 timlinux: markusN: think of it as a fall back if your tv ever breaks down
13:23:12 timlinux: :- )
13:23:29 markusN: oh my TV is still in the shop : ) have none
13:23:38 markusN: say when the kid sleep
13:23:42 markusN: kids
13:23:54 timlinux: :- )
13:23:55 markusN: kids^3
13:24:14 timlinux: or if you want to put them to sleep you could play them
13:24:17 timlinux: :- )
13:24:27 markusN: yeah
13:24:34 markusN: after midnight
13:24:40 timlinux: jef you back around?
13:24:52 jef: timlinux: yes.
13:25:04 timlinux: any further thoughts on this stupid linking issue?
13:25:16 timlinux: other than that it's a stupid issue
13:25:55 timlinux: and whoever designed windows should be forced to use MS-DOS for the rest of their days....
13:26:22 timlinux: jef: I guess my next stop is to build my own Qt4 and sip and pyqt libs
13:26:43 timlinux: though I was really hoping to be able to make good use of the libs in osgeo4w
13:28:30 timlinux: jef: it would also be nice to add QtTest.dll into osgeo4w so we can run unit tests
13:28:37 jef: timlinux: maybe it's best to switch to 2008. that we at least don't have to deal with r80 and r90. and it looks like on your system it uses r80 instead of r90 which it should.
13:29:16 timlinux: jef are you thinking upgrade or install on a clean system?
13:29:28 jef: timlinux: um, therefore we'd have to rebuild qt?
13:29:55 timlinux: oh I thought you may have the dll already built but not packaged in osgeo4w
13:30:06 timlinux: or add it as a separate lib
13:30:24 timlinux: since its use is limited to a niche audience
13:31:20 jef: timlinux: so it's not installed by default. checking.
13:32:18 jef: timlinux: what's wrong with QtTest4.dll?
13:33:33 timlinux: my full install of osgeo4w didn't seem to get it
13:33:42 timlinux: let me double check
13:34:00 timlinux: ah
13:34:09 timlinux: sorry I made a typo in my last search
13:36:06 macho: wow another language update - must be weekend
13:36:33 CIA-56: macho * r10441 /branches/Version-1_0/i18n/ ( 28 files ): another update and rework with update script.
13:37:18 jef: macho: still ahead of borys?
13:37:19 sigq: tracfeed: Changeset [10441]: another update and rework with update script. <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/changeset/10441>
13:37:33 macho: jef: borys lost something during the last update ..
13:37:50 macho: anyone made a few new translation strings .. dont know where they come from
13:40:13 simgislab: can I raise one more old topic? https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1354
13:40:15 sigq: Title: #1354 ( Ambiguous GUI label "Capture" for map editing tools ) - Quantum GIS - Trac ( at trac.osgeo.org )
13:40:19 macho: oh - my language .. somebody - not anyone .. = )
13:40:32 timlinux: simgislab: urf that one again?
13:40:39 simgislab: Can this be finally fixed or rejected? ; )
13:40:54 simgislab: I can't see it anymore in our translation
13:40:55 timlinux: just call it digitise in your translation
13:41:11 simgislab: Our translator refuses
13:41:18 timlinux: oh?
13:41:53 macho: oh??
13:42:25 simgislab: He says "capture" = "something in russian", we say yes, but this is like 20 years old, he says, well qgis is using it, so I translate it this way
13:42:50 timlinux: simgislab: the problem is capture is perfectly good english
13:43:05 timlinux: and 1.0 we should avoid string changes if poss
13:43:16 simgislab: but even in grass plugin it is "New" not "Capture"
13:43:22 timlinux: since changing it impacts on many manuals etc
13:43:34 simgislab: yes, I understand
13:43:50 simgislab: well, not a big deal
13:44:11 timlinux: I can close it with 'won't fix' if you like
13:44:23 timlinux: and / or we can change the string in trunk
13:45:01 macho: at least it IS a new point - but capture for "collecting data" is the perfect english word for it
13:45:11 timlinux: http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/data+capture
13:45:12 sigq: Title: data capture - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about data capture ( at encyclopedia.farlex.com )
13:46:38 simgislab: well, I'm not native speaker, but data capture sounds like little more than just digitizing?
13:47:07 macho: but in GIS it is indeed data capture
13:48:15 timlinux: simgislab: when you create a new feature you indeed do more than just digitising
13:48:22 timlinux: remember there are two parts
13:48:27 timlinux: draw the geometry
13:48:32 simgislab: yes, filling attribute table is data capture too
13:48:33 timlinux: complete the attribute form
13:49:17 simgislab: but if we switch off pop-up attribute table, ( with our latest patch : ) is this not data capture anymore?
13:49:18 sigq: tracfeed: Ticket #1475 ( enhancement closed ): Crash on opening project after moving GRASS-GISDBASE <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1475#comment:2>
13:49:54 : * markusN remembers http://geodictionary.osgeo.org
13:50:28 jef: simgislab: ha, I managed to resist to bring that up. ; )
13:50:52 simgislab: nobody is saying that the term is not good, it's just sound little ambigouos?
13:51:09 timlinux: markusN: that dictionary is missing the word capture! :-(
13:51:25 simgislab: : )
13:51:57 markusN: that dictionary is missing a lot
13:52:18 simgislab: Markus, can you remind how digitizing instruments are called in grass?
13:52:18 jef: simgislab: what's the alternative interpretation to "create" for "capture"?
13:52:40 timlinux: don't even get me started on the fact that they call digitise an alternate spelling to digitize -> I would have thought that digitize is an alternate spelling to digitise :- )
13:53:24 simgislab: that's why "create" or "new" is much better : ) btw shorter
13:53:39 timlinux: simgislab: I'm inclined to close the bug as won't fix, and leave it to translators to select the most appropriate word for their lang
13:54:04 simgislab: sure, white flag ; )
13:54:19 timlinux: :- )
13:54:22 jef: capture the flag.
13:54:24 macho: at least in english it is correct
13:54:30 timlinux: jef heh
13:55:00 simgislab: : )
13:55:05 timlinux: simgislab: what was that other patch you mentioned - I think you pasted the wrong link
13:55:12 timlinux: the no table popup link
13:56:02 simgislab: I didn't paste a link actually, that was the one to switch _annoying_ pop-up table while data capturing : )
13:56:31 simgislab: http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1498
13:56:33 sigq: Title: #1498 ( Switch pop-up attributes window on and off ) - Quantum GIS - Trac ( at trac.osgeo.org )
13:57:08 sigq: tracfeed: Ticket #1354 ( enhancement closed ): Ambiguous GUI label "Capture" for map editing tools <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1354#comment:5>
13:57:22 timlinux: simgislab: by the way quite a lot of people still use digitising tables
13:57:44 simgislab: timlinux: noooo : )
13:59:04 simgislab: even back in my country you won't find any for like 6-7 years
14:02:03 macho: is the patch integrated?
14:02:46 timlinux: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timlinux/3392743419/ <-- taken during my visit in Switzerland last week
14:02:47 sigq: Title: Digitising table....some folks still use em! on Flickr - Photo Sharing! ( at www.flickr.com )
14:02:55 timlinux: macho: I believe it is
14:03:06 macho: Applied to trunk in r9995. Thanks!
14:03:27 macho: but i cant find the button
14:03:52 timlinux: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timlinux/3392743419/ <-- simgislab taken during my visit in Switzerland last week
14:03:53 sigq: Title: Digitising table....some folks still use em! on Flickr - Photo Sharing! ( at www.flickr.com )
14:04:33 macho: wheres the button hidden to switch off the question after every click?
14:04:41 simgislab: is QGIS for some folks with digitizing tables? : )
14:04:54 simgislab: macho: try prefs\digitizing
14:05:06 timlinux: simgislab: I'm just waiting for someone to submit a patch :- )
14:06:11 macho: simgislab: thanx - iÃÃ've expected it to pop up with the first popup window - some kind like "use this attribute for all upcoming points"
14:07:45 macho: simgislab: is it possible to put it there too?
14:08:21 macho: and using the attribute given there for all captured features?
14:08:49 simgislab: macho: hmm, not sure, I guess it is possible, but will still require a way to turn it back on
14:09:36 macho: of course - when you finish capturing and want to capture the next features .. then it should pop up again asking for the next attribute
14:12:22 macho: probably bringing up the dialog with the right mouse button ??
14:13:43 simgislab: hmm, I'm not sure this is better, people are either like to enter attributes while digitizing...er...capturing data, or don't. I suggest we leave it as it is right now as a parsimonious solution and change it to something more adaptive in the future if there a need.
14:14:57 macho: but what attribute does the data have i capture without entering a attribute? nothing? - or do you mean i can change this later in the attribute table?
14:16:17 simgislab: if you switch off pop-up table, than there is no value or it is the default one.
14:16:35 macho: but lets adume you capter streets and ways ..
14:17:05 simgislab: and want to enter values after each line?
14:17:30 simgislab: then you turn it on in prefs
14:18:02 macho: but only with points .. ( to be later connected ) - wouldn't it be nice to enter street name after first point - close with last point ( right mouse button ) to open dialog again - enter new attribute ( street name ) and continue capturing?
14:19:09 macho: i hope you know what i mean
14:19:59 macho: and if you reall want no attribute - you can turn it off in prefs
14:20:20 simgislab: hmm, sounds good for streets, but sounds also like a custom solution, in this case we'll need whole suite of behaviours for pop-up attribute window
14:20:49 macho: sounds like a feature request for the wishlist ... : )
14:21:06 simgislab: we made this patch because for one of our projects we needed to create like 3000 points in QGIS
14:21:33 simgislab: +1 to add it to wishlist, I'm not sure where it is
14:22:50 sigq: tracfeed: Ticket #845 ( bug closed ): Problem with large attribute tables <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/845#comment:4>
14:49:00 sigq: tracfeed: Ticket #1546 ( bug closed ): Action from attribute table does'n substitute %column <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1546#comment:1>
14:53:01 sigq: tracfeed: Ticket #1268 ( bug closed ): crash due to an unhandled GEOSException <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1268#comment:10>
15:14:54 oznt: does someone know about a raster to polygon tool in qgis ?
15:18:29 simgislab: afaik, no such, try gdal_polygonize instead
15:21:55 oznt: simgislab, I used it to convert simple asii to polygon. But if I have a raster 300x300 and I want to create the polygons by specific z values I am completely clueless
15:23:21 simgislab: oznt, 300x300 is ok, gdal_polygonize should work fine
15:23:26 oznt: It should be possible to modify gdal_polygonize to do it though.
15:23:42 simgislab: you can also use grass tool in qgis
15:24:04 oznt: the size is not the proble. The proble is that I have many unique values. An I don't want 300 polygons to be created
15:24:06 simgislab: reclass, then vectorize
15:24:20 oznt: you mean with grass ?
15:25:17 oznt: how do I reclass ?
15:26:10 simgislab: yes, you can do it from qgis
15:26:16 simgislab: r.reclass
15:27:35 oznt: well... I wish I new how to work with grass...
15:28:14 oznt: i never managed to get the hang of it
15:28:56 oznt: how do I make the grass plugin load a simple ascii raster
15:30:36 simgislab: you need to create a new location first
15:30:53 oznt: i did. but then I can't add the file
15:31:04 oznt: should I just copy that file to the location dir?
15:31:57 simgislab: is open grass tools active?
15:32:17 simgislab: you're looking for r.in.ascii command
15:34:58 oznt: yes I found it.
15:35:06 oznt: thanks. now I'll try to classify
15:38:12 oznt: I see I have to specify a file to have the classification rules. Any idea how the rules look like or where to find them ?
15:38:52 simgislab: -5000 thru 0 = NULL
15:38:52 simgislab: 0 thru 500 = 2
15:38:52 simgislab: 500 thru 2000 = 3
15:38:58 simgislab: like this
15:45:42 oznt: simgislab, thanks for the walkthrough . what is the vectorize function ?
15:46:17 simgislab: r.to.vect.area
15:50:08 oznt: ok I did it, but the vector is grass format, and I don't know how to load it...
15:51:08 simgislab: just load it in QGIS, using add grass vector layer
15:52:00 oznt: i need to tell him Gisdbase, Location, Mapset Mapname and layer... no clue what all these are
15:52:35 simgislab: current I suppose
15:53:30 oznt: basically Gisdbase is a folder called nc_spm_08/
15:53:49 oznt: that is were the vector layer is formed inside a dir called vector