One suggestion if you don’t want to / can’t use your own server, perhaps Github would work for you. I know places like the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, GIS department have used it to distribute data files:
https://github.com/cambridgegis
— Andy
> On Oct 18, 2024 08:46 AM, at 8:46 AM, Andy Anderson <aander...@amherst.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Hi, Andrea,
>
> The problem is that the link that Google Drive provides is to a “preview”
> program that turns it into a web page, even for well-known file types like
> “.txt” and “.png”. It is not a link to the “raw” file.
>
> The only way around that I’ve seen is for Sheets documents, which, when
> sharing, can be “Published to web” in standard formats such as “.csv”.
>
> — Andy
>
>> On Oct 18, 2024 04:38 AM, at 4:38 AM, Andrea Giacomelli via Discuss
>> <discuss@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello to all,
>>
>> a) This is a question I tried to pose initially on Google Drive discussions
>> as it is a generic issue on the Google Drive side.
>> In absence of feedback for the moment I am relaying it also here...maybe
>> somebody has tried this.
>>
>> I would like to understand if there is a way to use a Google Drive folder as
>> a repository for GPX or Geojson files to be displayed via web map
>> applications that allow online data sources.
>>
>> b) As a test, I took a generic geojson file and uploaded it via FPT to a
>> folder on my web site, and I am able to use that file as a layer by
>> indicating its URL....works fine.
>>
>> If I upload the same file to Google Drive, share it to "Anyone with the
>> link", and then use the deriving URL as a data source, the layer is not
>> displayed....
>>
>> example:
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Iao_JWwGgOqrFTGNdjxvuTSaq1whnXz9/view?usp=sharing
>>
>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Iao_JWwGgOqrFTGNdjxvuTSaq1whnXz9/view?usp=sharing>
>>
>> c) I am wondering if there are other ways to refer to the shared file, so
>> that it may be read appropriately by the mapping app.
>>
>> I noted that Drive uses different URL for the file depending on the function
>> (e.g.
>> https://drive.usercontent.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1Iao_JWwGgOqrFTGNdjxvuTSaq1whnXz9&export=download
>>
>> <https://drive.usercontent.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1Iao_JWwGgOqrFTGNdjxvuTSaq1whnXz9&export=download>
>> )...but I cannot find a documentation about this...
>>
>> TIA for any feedback, and best regards
>>
>> Andrea Giacomelli
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>> p.s. I am evaluating the Google Drive approach since I have some data
>> providers who are comfortable using Drive to upload their files, but are
>> less conversant with FTP or other tools.
>>
>>
>> Andrea Giacomelli
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