On 2016-07-11 10:43, Nyall Dawson wrote:
I still wonder if (in the ideal world) the delimited text provider be
retired and all the extra features it has (wkt, regex, etc) ported
over to OGRs csv reader. Then the provider would become just a user
friendly front end for configuring the OGR data source. Benefits would
be less code for us to maintain + write support, plus other projects
could also take advantage of these features.
Disadvantages? It'd take a bunch of work :p
While I agree that the OGR-data dialogs could have a make-over, I think
the point we want to make is missed in this way: create layer from
whatever table is already loaded in QGIS (via whatever provider).
Matthias is also right: you can probably do that via Generators (to be
fixed first) or Virtual Layers... but I just tried and I could not
easily figure out how to do this having loaded the an excel with the
following columns:
name,x,y
a,0,0
b,10,10
c,20,20
d,30,30
Off course making the ui for this more user-friendly is maybe the best
option.
Doing this via a plugin like Chris proposes is also possible but to us
that looks like reimplementing the TD-gui again....
Regards,
Richard
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