Hi Matt, just wondering if you all have been working on this at all. I'd be curious to hear what you've ended up doing.
Adam On Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at 2:54:03 AM UTC-6, M Hobson wrote: > > 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 >>> >> -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
