[Gvsig_english] editing improvements needed

[Sergio Clark]

Hi ernesto,

Thanks very much for your suggestions. We're already working in some of 
them, and we note the other for future implementations, in order to 
improve gvSIG with the community help ;-)

Best regards,

Sergio


ernesto sferlazza escribió:
> Hi all
> I have begun to explore in more detail the editing capabilities of
> GVSIG and would  state some remarks (or, better, some wishes) to the
> point.
> In detail, I think that the following improvements are needed:
> 1) I cannot select for editing purposes a feature af a layer from his
> attribute table and features can be selected only on the geographic
> display (the view) using the selection tools   available in the modify
> toolbar (red arrow and blue arrow icons) or in the Geometry menu;
> 2) sometimes it is very difficulty  to select overlapping features one
> at time. In these istances, the solution could be (like in AutoCAD) to
> activate a cyclic selection using, for istance, the "ctrl" key;
> 3) creation of contiguous polygons: the only way for this purpose is
> to digitize twice the sides common to the two contiguius polygons,
> with the consequence of great time consuming and high probability to
> run into topology errors. Solution: develope a new editing task like
> "Auto-Complete Polygon" task in ArcGIS;
> 3 bis) should be needed other editing tasks like "split" (for lines)
> or "cut"  (for polygons) features, "merge" two or more selected
> features (using the attributes of one of them, choosen from user);
> "clip" to create a hole in a polygon feature using another overlapping
> polygon feature of the same layer (this is a frequently recurring
> situation when I convert a dxf layer of parcels into a shapefile
> layer)
> ...
> etc.
>
>  I realize that my wishes are easy to say, for me, since I am only a
> user and not a developer, but I think that improvements in editing are
> actually needed to transform GVSIG in a real alternative to some
> commercial software;
> Best regards and happy Easter
>
>   


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Sergio Clark
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