Edit vertex tool very slow

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Author Name: Marica Landini bulma (Marica Landini bulma)
Original Redmine Issue: 4433
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:digitising

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Dear developers,
we noticed that the tool for the vertex edit since the version 1.5 is very slow.
When we try to edit features (polygons in our case) having a big number of vertices, during an editing session, just clicking with the node tool on a vertex (node) of a selected polygon we have to wait a lot of seconds (proportionally to the number of vertices) before to see the vertices selected in red square.
In the 1.4 version this operation was immediate.
After these selection of vertices the use of the tool (moving a vertex) it is also very slow.
We loaded on http://geo.regione.emilia-romagna.it/gstatico/documenti/qgis/test_node_edit_qgis.zip an example shapefile that we used for these tests.
You can try with the Ferrara Province polygon, although we tried also with others shapefiles and differents polygons.
OS: Win XP, Ubuntu 10.10
qGis versions: since 1.5, till 1.7.1 (with the 1.4 there is no problem)

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Related issue(s): #14441 (duplicates)
Redmine related issue(s): 4523

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Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)

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Also on Debian, and Windows 7 and Vista, apparently

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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This is easily confirmed and the reason seems to be something related to the (pseudo)topological editing features. Interesting enough QGIS still very slow (basically unusable) when editing large/complex geometries even if the topological editing parameters are not enabled.

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• category_id was configured as Digitising
• priority_id was changed from Normal to High
• fixed_version_id was configured as Version 1.8.0

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Author Name: Ben Madin (Ben Madin)

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Paolo Cavallini wrote:

Also on Debian, and Windows 7 and Vista, apparently

Also on Mac OS X 10.6 using QGIS 1.7.3 (from William Kyngesbury)

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Author Name: Ben Madin (Ben Madin)

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Sorry, I hit submit instead of preview, but I wanted to add that "(basically unusable)" is most definitely an understatement - but to put some sense of perspective on it, it seems that at about 27000 points in the geometry you can just manage, but a bigger multipolygon (I seem to be dealing with places like the Philippines and Chile a lot at the moment!) often have hundreds of thousands of points, and the whole programme ends up using 1 GB of RAM, 100% of CPU and 10 minutes later hasn't progressed.

I can remember editing these for a project some years ago, so I was just wondering if there is any way to roll back the pseudo-topological editing features for now (they are good, but I need to get rid of some errors).

cheers

Ben

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Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)

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Seems fixed now - please test on master.

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• version was configured as master
• crashes_corrupts_data was configured as 0

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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This is issue is (thanks to Jurgen work) gone, and actually the performances when editing geometries with a lot of nodes (tens of thousands nodes) is now even more efficient of any other GIS software I had testes, both OS and proprietary.

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• resolution was changed from to fixed
• status_id was changed from Feedback to Closed