Great news: Sourcepole has extended QGIS server to offer printing functionality for web maps based on print composer.
Selecting a print extent
You can test this functionality yourself on gis.uster.ch/webgis. The viewers are GeoExt-based. User can intuitively select a layout, extent, scale, rotation and resolution for printing. QGIS server will return a printable PDF.
If you want to learn more about what goes on behind the scenes, you find a good description on Sourcepole’s website.
In his post “Layer list widget for PyQGIS applications”, German Carrillo describes how to add a legend to your own PyQGIS application. You get to download the source code for the legend widget to include into your project.
The following video by soerengebbert shows the latest developments in OS WPS applications: PyWPS (using wps-grass-bridge to integrate GRASS modules as WPS processes), GRASS 7, and QGIS using the qwps plugin by Horst Düster (all latest svn versions).
The 1.8.0 release is a major new feature release with the following highlights:
, GPSBabel, HTF, LIBKML, MSSQLSpatial, NAS, OpenAir, PDS, PGDump, SOSI, SUA, WFS
More complete information on the new features and fixes can be found in the GDAL/OGR 1.8.0 Release News.
Always wanted your very own 3d scanner? Try Kinect:
The 1st European State of the Map Conference (SotM-Europe) will be held July 15-17 in Vienna, Austria. So far, there have been 4 International State of the Map conferences. This will be the first European edition of this event.
Topics include:
The call for papers is still open until Monday, February 28 2011.
The international conference will be held in Denver, Colorado from September 9-11 2011.
pgRouting has become even more powerful: A DARP (Dial-a-Ride-Problem) solver is now available in the “darp branch” of the pgRouting repository.
The Dial-a-Ride Problem (DARP) solver tries to minimize transportation cost while satisfying customer service level constraints (time windows violation, waiting and travelling times) and fleet constraints (number of cars and capacity, as well as depot location).
Documentation can be found at www.pgrouting.org/docs.
If you ever need to sort the entries in a shapefile by one of its attributes, you might be happy to learn that somebody already did all the work for you and wrote a plugin for QGIS that can perform such sorting tasks: MMQGIS Sort plugin by Michael Minn
MMQGIS Sort plugin
Today, Alexander Bruy announced a new QGIS plugin called RoadGraph. It is a C++ plugin that calculates the shortest path between two points on any polyline layer (e.g. Openstreetmap shapefiles).
More information can be found at GIS-Lab.
Binary files are available for Windows and Linux:
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