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> From:
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> [mailto:
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> andrea pacifici
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 4:36 AM
> To: Richard Duivenvoorde
> Cc:
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> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] How to identify a raster on the map?
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> Hi Richard,
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> I'm using Qgis in order to realise a geological map: images will be not
> distribuited via mapserver. So I actually have more than 200 layers.
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> To create a python plugin for that could be very interesting. But I don't
> know python language....
>
> Anyway, I think that the possibility to have a Qgis plugin doing this could
> be fundamental for those people working with a very large number of raster
> data (this is the case of people like me working on planetary geology)
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> Thank you very much
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> Andrea
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> 2008/1/11, Richard Duivenvoorde <
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> Hi Andrea,
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> how did you load these rasters?
> Every raster in a layer (so you have actually 200 layers)?
> Or did you generate a tileindex file using gdaltindex and are you
> serving the rasterimages using mapserver?
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> If the first: it's fun to write a simple python plugin for that, if
> needed I can give you some help (thinking about: get mouseXY, walk
> through all layers and check if you are within the bbox of current
> layer, spit the layername or some other attribute name to std-out (or
> more fancy: show a dialog).)
>
> If the second: as Tim told you: add the indexfile as layer. You can also
> use that indexfile to serve the rasters via Mapserver then.
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> Building the indexfile and just loading that in Qgis is probably the
> fastest way.
>
> Grtz Richard Duivenvoorde
>
> andrea pacifici wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a Qgis-GRASS GIS project containing more than 200 rasters: it is
> > a GIS project about a portion of Mars (yes... the planet!).
> > Often, I need to identify the name of one of such rasters just by
> > clicking on it on the map.
> > Which is the best way to do this with Qgis? The "Identify" button give
> > information on a raster only if the raster it is already selected.
> > There is a plugin to do this?
> >
> > Otherwise, I think the only way is to build a vector layer representing
> > raster footprints, and interrogate it.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Andrea
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