We are working with v3 On Friday, August 11, 2017 at 6:39:10 PM UTC+1, Dennis Wuthrich wrote: > > Matt, > > There's no issue with using Arches v4 to support QGIS queries. You can > define views of Arches geospatial data in PostGIS, making it > straightforward to connect with QGIS (mush as Adam described). > > Of course, if you want to discourage direct connections between QGIS and > Arches, you can publish your views as vector tiles or WFS. Arches v4 > integrates Tilestache (http://tilestache.org/), which would allow you to > serve Arches data as vector tiles (not sure if tilestaches supports WFS). > Or you can use Geoserver (http://geoserver.org/) to server your views as > standard WFS. > > In either case, this would allow clients (such as QGIS and others) to > access Arches data for use in ad-hoc analysis. This would be a great way > to support read-access to Arches data for use in desktop GIS. > > Hope this helps, > > Dennis > > On Friday, August 11, 2017 at 3:35:20 AM UTC-7, M Hobson wrote: >> >> Just adding an update on this. >> >> Firstly, we are struggling to make any progress because an upgrade to >> Arches v4 is currently being considered by our project team. If that goes >> forward, it appears that this would be a non-starter as the database in v4 >> might be stored in such a peculiar way that it would make it very difficult >> to use for anything other than the Arches application. >> >> Problems also seem to arise with v3. The fact that the Postgres database >> permissions system is completely separate from the Django permissions that >> Arches uses has been judged to be a problem for setting up any regular QGIS >> interface that could be widely used. >> >> Does anybody know if it is possible to set up a Web feature service (WFS) >> with Arches v4 in order to allow easy spatial interrogation in a GIS >> software package such as QGIS? Are there any plans to get something like >> this up and running? >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Matt >> >
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