Highlight Layers

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Author Name: Redmine Admin (Redmine Admin)
Original Redmine Issue: 558

Redmine category:gui

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Allow the user to create layers on the fly where the layer shows a circular or rectangular area. These areas can either be 'drawn' on screen using the mouse, based on a radius or distance from a given lat/long, or based around a point source in a vector layer. The user should be able to also select the colour/texture and give the ayer a name.

I would use this for identifying/highlighting areas of interest.

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Author Name: Tim Sutton (Tim Sutton)

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Sounds like a nice idea for a plugin. I'm putting this against milestone 2.0.0 though since its not something we will have time to implement within 1.0 release.

Regards

Tim

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Author Name: alobo - (alobo -)

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I would add allowing the user to rotate the feature,
i.e., drawing an initial rectangle of a given size that could be interactively refined afterwards,
including rotation. I think that this would be best included within the Edit tools.
Agus

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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The latest request seems partially a duplicate of #11847. I leave this note for the developers, for when they will a look at this enhancement.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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on the fly layers -> in memory layers plugin

draw regular shapes -> rectangles, ovals, diamond plugin / cad tools plugin

"or based around a point source in a vector layer" -> buffer tool in the vector menu

"The user should be able to also select the colour/texture and give the ayer a name" -> you can also for in memory layers

"I would use this for identifying/highlighting areas of interest" -> spatial query tool

I vote to close this ticket, feedback needed.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Closing for lack of feedback and considered that the request is doable on QGIS with the available tools/plugins. Reopen if necessary.

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