Bug report #12553

Features are not rendered (at certain scales) and cannot be selectd/identified if they have invalid geometries

Added by Katharina King almost 9 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:High
Assignee:-
Category:Map Canvas
Affected QGIS version:2.18.4 Regression?:Yes
Operating System: Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:end of life
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:20694

Description

New description:
If a vector has invalid geometries such features are sometimes not rendered and usually this also mean that even if rendered are not selectable or identifiable.

Open the attached vector layer and try to:

1) select or identify the polygon on the left to the one with "fsdo name" = Boise FSDO
2) try zoom in to the above polygon, at certain point it will disappear

Old description:
When a vector layer with huge geometry complexity is loaded, the data is not rendered anymore from a specific detailed zoom level on.

Procedure:
  1. Open qGis 2.8.1 on Windows 7
  2. Set the CRS to EPSG=21781
  3. Add the following vector layer: The vector data gets rendered
  4. Zoom to 1:5000 or deeper: The vector data doesn't get rendered anymore!
  5. Zoom back: The vector data gets rendered again
Remarks:
  • Zoom level dependent rendering is OFF!
  • The same procedure with qGis 1.7.3 on Windows 7 works perfectly... The vector file is OKAY!
  • The phenomemon is independent of the vector FORMAT. You can translate to SHAPEFILE, the same happens!

FSDO_Service_Areas_111615.zip (2.34 MB) Giovanni Manghi, 2017-03-03 04:16 AM

History

#1 Updated by Katharina King almost 9 years ago

Don't understand why 2 lines got canceled in the description above! These are VALID lines... Can't edit anymore!

#2 Updated by Katharina King almost 9 years ago

Found the reason:
The Vector file holds geometry lines with 0 length! It seems qGis doesn't like that and stops rendering at specific zoom levels.
  • This is a very particular behaviour
  • Remember that qGis 1.7.3 has no problem with the 0 length geometry lines!

Resolved by cleaning the vector file with GRASS:
v.clean input=Test_GradientGeometry@Test output=cleaned tool=rmline thres=0.00 type=line

#3 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 9 years ago

  • Category set to Vectors
  • Target version deleted (Version 2.8.1)
  • Operating System deleted (Windows 7)
  • OS version deleted (Windows 7)
  • Affected QGIS version changed from 2.8.1 to master
  • Subject changed from Vector layer not rendered when zooming to Line vector do not show at certain scales if it has geometries with length=0

#4 Updated by Nyall Dawson over 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback

Can you reshare the sample data?

#5 Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 7 years ago

  • Priority changed from Normal to Severe/Regression
  • Status changed from Feedback to Open

Nyall Dawson wrote:

Can you reshare the sample data?

better try contact directly the author of the ticket.

As it worked fine in a older QGIS release this is technically a regression.

#6 Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 7 years ago

  • Category changed from Vectors to Map Canvas
  • Target version set to Version 3.0
  • Affected QGIS version changed from master to 2.18.4

Will try to manage a new sample dataset to prove this issue. The problem has been certainly seen on 2.14 and 2.18 too.

#7 Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 7 years ago

  • File FSDO_Service_Areas_111615.zip added
  • Subject changed from Line vector do not show at certain scales if it has geometries with length=0 to Features are not rendered (at certain scales) and cannot be selectd/identified if they have invalid geometries

#8 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 7 years ago

  • Regression? set to Yes

#9 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 7 years ago

  • Priority changed from Severe/Regression to High

#10 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 7 years ago

  • Easy fix? set to No

#11 Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 5 years ago

  • Resolution set to end of life
  • Status changed from Open to Closed

End of life notice: QGIS 2.18 LTR

Source:
http://blog.qgis.org/2019/03/09/end-of-life-notice-qgis-2-18-ltr/

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