Message-ID: <46DBB643.70403@lancaster.ac.uk>
Date: 2007-09-03T07:22:43Z
From: Barry Rowlingson
Subject: polygon buffers?
In-Reply-To: <46DB9E36.9040809@ija.csic.es>
Agustin Lobo wrote:
> I dream with a GIS tool (A GIS display tool for R? An R plugging for
> Qgis? etc)
> that could display spatial R objects. This is beyond current
> tools, based on exporting (hence duplicating space and troubles)
> R objects to other formats.
Oooh, you are giving me ideas! I've been working with R and QGIS for
some time, linked by Python plugins.
For example, my Basic Stats plugin for QGIS lets you do data summaries
of QGIS layers (histograms of attributes, x-y plots etc):
http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/Software/Spqr/
This is only a small step from writing what's called a 'Provider' for
QGIS, that could display sp-style data objects from R on the QGIS map
canvas...
If my Java skills were more developed I'd be working on something
similar for OpenJUMP, which I think has all the topology operators like
buffering that the original poster on this thread was interested in.
Barry