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extend scanning & opening archived files feature (.zip) to gnu zipped files (e.g. .hgt.gz) #52505

Open momentmal opened 1 year ago

momentmal commented 1 year ago

Feature description

Displaying the included files in the browser by expanding the tree view and especially being able to directly drag & drop the compressed .gz files into the map canvas (like both currently work great with .zip files) would be a great addition to make common terrain filetypes work directly with QGIS.

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momentmal commented 1 year ago

/update: actually just realized that even though zips can be directly dragged into the map canvas and are displayed as correct layers, it seems they can't be processed by e.g. using "merge". so until further, it seems i still need to uncompress even .zip files if i want to work with them. i think this was mentioned in an older ticket as well and probably should be prioritized before extending to other compressed formats like .gz https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/37412

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