This line symbol type is designed to replicate the ArcGIS Hash Line
symbol layer type. It allows for a repeating line segment to be
drawn over the length of a feature, with a line-sub symbol used
to render each individual segment.
To reduce code duplication, this is heavily based off the current
line marker symbol layer, since the functionality is almost
identical (draw some sub symbol at some interval along a line).
Accordingly, I've split off QgsMarkerLineSymbolLayer to move
as much of the common functionality as possible to a new abstract
base class, so that only the actual marker/line segment rendering
occurs in the marker line/hash line subclasses.
This also gives the hash line all the existing placement options
permissible for marker lines -- e.g. first/last vertex, mid points,
regular intervals, etc.
The hash line length and angle can have data defined overrides,
which are evaluated per-line segment, allowing for the hash line
to change size and angle over the length of a single rendered
feature.
K-nearest neighbour joins from the Processing toolbox!
This algorithm takes an input vector layer and creates a new
vector layer that is an with additional attributes in its attribute table
The additional attributes and their values are taken from a second
vector layer, where features are joined by finding the closest features
from each layer.
By default only the single nearest feature is joined, but optionally
the join can use the n-nearest neighboring features instead.
If a maximum distance is specified, then only features which are
closer than this distance will be matched.
nearest neighbor search based on QgsGeometry to QgsGeometries
Previously only point - geometry was possible. But with this
change, you can safely and accurately use QgsSpatialIndex
to determine the nearest neighbours between any types of
geometries.
Instead of encouraging use of the internal Processing modules
(e.g. from processing.tools.general import run , import processing, ...)
instead expose all Python specific STABLE processing additions
to the qgis.processing module.
Instead, scripts and plugins should now use
from qgis.processing import run, algorithmHelp,...
This makes a clear distinction between internal Processing python
modules (i.e., everything else!) and the parts of Processing
which are stable and designed to be used by plugins and scripts.
TODO: QGIS 4.0 -- move the internal Processing plugin modules
to __processing, to clearer indicate that this is all internal
stuff.
Adds label distance factor spinbox to Point Displacement symbology
window. Calculates label distance based on the current symbology
diagonal instead of a general maximum diagonal.
Replaces the hard coded distance "symbolDiagonal/2.0" with
"symbolDiagonal*mLabelDistanceFactor", where mLabelDistanceFactor is set
to the spinbox value.
It's an old feature request (Point displacement labels adjustable
offsets "https://issues.qgis.org/issues/5945").
