A work front has been selected for the kCube developer. SunilRaj Kiran will work on QGIS bugfixing for 6 months.
If you are interested, you can find out more about kCube and the new developer in an interview that Tim has published.
The first three issues he will work on have already been selected: #13034, #13215 and #12301.
11.01.2011 17:16 · Notes · qgis, gource
Nathan has published an interesting video showing 8 years of QGIS development.
The video was created using Gource, detailed explanations of the process can be found on Nathan’s blog. Each cluster of files represents a directory, and branches show the directory hierarchy of the source code.
06.01.2011 07:03 · GIS · qgis, plugins, cswclient
I have released a first experimental version of the CSWClient plugin for QGIS.
The plugin interacts with the OGC CSW (Catalogue Service for Web) servers and is used to search and view spatial data and related resources.
Among the main features of the plugin:
downloadableData records in the browser.liveData records to the list of WMS services (if this is a valid link to a WMS service)CSWClient is available from the QGIS plugins repository.
The plugin was developed for Linfinity Consulting for the TanBIF (Tanzania Biodiversity Information Facility) project.
A few days ago I wrote about the kCube Consulting initiative. The ideas have been collected, and the voting has started. Unfortunately, you can only vote for one option.
So far “Fixing bugs” is leading with 23.8%, followed by “Improving import/export on dwg/dxf” with 8.8% and “QGIS Mobile (e.g. on Android)” with 7.5%.
This is how the QGIS Plugin Manager looks like after adding icons to plugins.
Tim Sutton gave a good overview of some new features in QGIS: a graphical rule editor (which helps to create rendering rules) and complex styles for vector objects (fill, outline and centre marker).
Yesterday, Martin Dobias added icon support to the QGIS Plugin Manager. Among other things, this will make the display of available plugins more user-friendly and make it easier to navigate through the large list. However, to take advantage of this feature, plugin authors will need to make small changes to their code (add two lines). In the future, after the launch of the new plugin repository, it is planned to add icon support to the Plugin Installer.
Another interesting news — kCube Consulting has decided to help the QGIS project by assigning one of their programmers to work on QGIS for 6 months. You can read more about this on Tim’s blog, and visit the wiki to check out the list of possible tasks and leave your own suggestions.
/me put on “Sax & Sex” and began to add icon support to his plugins and those he could reach.
A small but interesting comparison of QGIS and MapInfo https://woostuff.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/mapinfo-and-qgis-an-overview/.
29.11.2010 14:56 · GIS · qgis, release
QGIS 1.6 “Copiapó” has been released. This version contains over 177 bugfixes and many improvements. Among the most interesting changes are:
An updated User Guide is also available (English only for now).
22.11.2010 17:27 · GIS · qgis, plugins
I decided to improve my MergeShapes plugin a bit. I added encoding selection when opening files, shapefile geometry type selection and reworked the merge algorithm. Now, the final attribute table contains all unique fields from all input files, which means you can merge files with different attribute tables. The only missing bit is a setting for the default encoding of input data.
There are plans to improve DPSimplify, Statist and RasterCalc, but I don’t know how it will go yet.
I’ve also started to slowly learn Git, or rather to organise and deepen my fragmentary knowledge. I want to try out this VCS in real tasks, as there is already a Git mirror of the main QGIS SVN repository.
16.11.2010 12:43 · Notes · qgis, meetings
Based on the report published on the Linfiity Geo Blog and my own impressions.
The 4th QGIS hackfest, held from 11 to 15 November in Wrocław, Poland, attracted 29 participants (28 people and one dog). All participants did their best to make QGIS even better. A lot was accomplished in four days: hundreds of commits, demonstrations of new features, and many productive discussions. The meeting was organised by Paweł Netzel with the help of Milena Nowotarska, Robert Szczepanek, Maciej Sieczka and Borys Jurgiel and took place at the Department of Climatology and Atmospheric Protection of the University of Wroclaw.
My contribution — numerous improvements to the fTools plugin. When using the “Merge shapefiles to one” tool, it is now possible to select not only a folder, but also individual files. The “Simplify geometry” tool has been redesigned: I added a customisable simplification threshold and the ability to simplify the whole layer or only selected features; simplification can be done “in place” or by creating a new shapefile; “in place” simplification supports undo/redo; at the end of the simplification plugin shows a report about the total number of vertices in a layer before and after simplification.
Below, you will find an overview of the most important topics that were discussed during the hackfest as well as most notable changes.
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