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How to install a QGIS plugin when offline?

Due to various IT policies at my workplace, QGIS is installed on a machine that is not connected to the internet. I wish to install a couple of QGIS plugins on this system. I have downloaded the ...
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How to check Topology in QGIS?

I have two Shapefiles with Polygons ( City and Forerst) Is there a Plugin who is able check the topology (QGIS)? Like "Knots do not overlap" or something like that? I dont want that they overlap. ...
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How to close watermarks window in QGIS Openlayers plugin?

I'm using Quantum GIS Ver. 1.7.4. I have upgraded openlayers plugin 0.7 to 0.9. However when I open google satellite, a watermarks/copyright dialog box "Data Peta@2012 ..." appear in the middle of the ...
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Get a pixel value

How can i do this operation: I want to get a pixel value fro the satellite image (Landat, GeoTIFF, 7 bands) using qgis-python. What operators should i use? (for example in qgis's Python Console) ...
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How to install shapely for python 2.6 (Mac) NOT 2.7?

I'm trying to use Polygonizer plugin inside QGIS, but it needs Shapely to work. I've installed Shapely (pip install Shapely) but that's for python 2.7. QGIS works with python 2.6 (on Snow Leopard) and ...
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Visual Impact Assessment in QGIS or GRASS

Is it possible using QGIS or GRASS to perform a Zone of Visual Impact assessment? E.g. where can a 100m high structure be seen at a viewing height of 1.8m within 30km, taking into account elevation ...
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Is there a purge function to remove layers from a qgs file which are not present in the Layers pane?

I have some QGIS projects that I've been using for long time, adding and removing layers, updating reference to deleted or moved files etc. Opening with a text editor the qgs file I see that it ...
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Qgis: How to display special characters German “ÄÜÖß” in a Map?

I have a shape file with names for Regions. These don't seem to contain special characters but ugly hyroglyphes. What can I do do display them correctly. If I import the shape as UTF-8 it doesn't ...
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How to filter the MouseWheel event in a QGIS C++ plugin?

I’m developing a C++ plugin for Qgis and I want to filter/override the mouse-wheel event. I created a “maptool” to select a polygon feature on a vector layer, the feature has two attributes : an id ...
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How to reproject a vector layer in QGIS?

I have some shape file which is in UTM. I wanted them to convert to Decimal Degreesin QGIS. Hope I can get some better response.. Thanks.
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How to install Python libs for XYtools to read Excel files

I need to use the XYtools plugin to read an Excel file. After choosing the XYtools incon and indicating an Excel file to read in, a message appears "there is a problem with loading a python module ...
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Problems with Google layers plugins

I currently use Quantum GIS 1.7.4 at work and I have trouble to open Google layers extension. In fact, when I start QGIS 1.7.4 the following message appears and I cannot use Google layers extension. ...
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Is there a way to use “Select by Attribute” in QGIS using a python command?

is there a way to use the function "Select by Attribute" in QGIS using a python command? In my plugin the user should enter a value via a GUI and this value should be used in a function which selects ...
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Is there a way to access QGIS plugins in Python?

Is there a way to access QGIS plugins in Python? I'd like to write a script to do some geoprocessing, and I'd like to use the clip, regular points and convex hull tools in fTools, as well as the Road ...
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Simulate (Mock) GPS Tracks

I have the following scenario: 1) I need to create GPX files for use in testing of a mobile device. 2) The tracks to be described within will span large distances over long time periods (i.e. it's ...
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Where to report QGIS and QGIS-Plugin bugs?

I often find bugs in Qgis and its Plugins. I would like to ask about this on the internet but I do not seem to find the proper place to address this issue. Are there any instructions?
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Button to add a new line in a non-spatial table without opening the table itself using QGIS?

While using QGIS and having loaded a non spatial table (from PostGIS), is it possible to add a new row to its table attributes without having to open the attribute table first as in here Is it ...
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QGIS - export a project with dependencies

I was wandering if there was a way to save a specific project with all layers as dependent files to make it easy to share with collaborators. for example, create a zipped or non-zipped folder ...
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Is there a way to export QGIS layers to KML?

has had anyone had any luck with the new experimental plugin qgis2kml? I keep getting the error msg layer : format not yet supported I had a look but the author has not provided any documentation, ...
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How to connect a PyQGIS plugin with Postgres?

I have some questions for you: I created a python-plugin in QGIS, then I created a Qt gui fom my plugin and at last I created a Postgres DB now I need to make a connection between Qt-gui and ...
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TIN Interpolation using a vector layer

I'm writing a plugin in QGIS and I'd like to generate a TIN surface using a vector layer with x,y and z (interpolation attribute). The idea is to visualize the same result like in the Interpolation ...
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Unit of $length in QGis Field Calculator

I'm calculating field of various features in my shapefile using QGis. I'm getting some sample length as 0.134914579766986. I want to know in what unit (eg: meters, km etc) is the above value ?
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How to port QGIS C++ plugins to other QGIS installations?

I developed a C++ plugin for QGIS using VC++ express 2008 and a QGIS dev release (1.9.90 alpha), my plugin works fine on this release and now I want to port it to other QGIS installations, so I copied ...
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Trouble with Python plugins on QGIS

This question has been bugging me for a while now, and I still haven't managed to solve it, so I'm giving it another go, hopefully someone may help me out. I've been having problems loading several ...
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QGIS Plugin Windows

I have written a QGIS plugin (RTools) which acts mostly like a independent plugin (minimal interaction with QGIS core functions). On Linux both QGIS and RTools were build using QT 4.8 on Qt creator. ...
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How to fix QGIS PyQGIS package?

I have a broken package that is preventing QGIS from loading python plugins, updating itself, or even un-installing. The main symptom of this problem is the following message that appears when QGIS ...
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Polygonizer plugin halts in Windows

I've had some success and some problems using the Polygonizer plugin in the past. I'm using Polygonizer 2.1 in QGIS 1.8 on Windows 7. I'm aware there are sometimes problems using Polygonizer in ...