Hi Andreas Thanks for your comments!
Here the Gdoc with my first ideas: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xp36eR0DYThpTCNsWUam5JhFKVjOVpmRObwWSPjkrbc/edit?usp=sharing Cheers Stéphane Stéphane Henriod CIM-Expert for GIS and Green Economy Statistics Национальный статистический комитет Кыргызской Республики Кыргыз Республикасынын Улуттук статистика комитети National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic 374 Фрунзе ул. / Frunze str. 720033 Бишкек / Bishkek T +996 778 46 99 02 (KG) T +49 176 280 11 050 (DE) E [email protected] W http://www.stat.kg W3W: nightfall.into.bucket <https://map.what3words.com/nightfall.into.bucket> // запас.союз.дружный <https://map.what3words.com/запас.союз.дружный> 2017-09-28 12:23 GMT+06:00 Andreas Neumann <[email protected]>: > Hi Stéphane, > > Thanks for your ideas. It is my personal goal (and the goal of the Swiss > QGIS user group) to make Geopackage the number 1 file-based format in QGIS > and put Shapefiles in the graveyard. > > Therefore we paid Even Rouault in the past for some geopackage > improvements. Swiss provinces also invested into a tool name ili2gpkg - a > tool that can read official swiss data models in Interlis format and > generate the data structure in a geopackage - incl. import of data, if it > already exists. This is in parallel with a similar tool called ili2pg that > does the same for Postgis. > > As you discovered there are more issues around Geopackages to make them as > hassle-free as possible. I also think the raster part of geopackages did > not get too much attention so far. > > Since you have been so successful with your campaign around improving > discrete/paletted rasters - may I suggest the same for Geopackage > improvements? You can start a list of useful improvements in a Google Docs > document or on Github as a QEP. Other people can contribute and we can find > a way to fund the improvements. Both QGIS-CH and QGIS.ORG could help with > the financing aspect. > > Some feedback to your 3 issues: > > ad 1): you are right - it is not possible to easily create an empty > geopackage. One always starts with a vector layer. > > ad 2): this should be fixed in QGIS master (QGIS 3). Just tested, works > fine > > ad 3): yes, would be useful > > I am sure there are more issues. Would be useful to collect them for > further improvements. > > Do you want to start a document? I would be glad to assist you. > > Let's also think about rasters. E.g. saving to a Geopackage should be as > easy as saving to a TIFF-file. Also in Processing. But I have to admit I > haven't really tested the raster part of Geopackage a lot. Maybe some > things are already possible. > > Greetings, > > Andreas > > On 2017-09-28 06:47, Stéphane Henriod wrote: > > Dear all > > I am making a few tests with Geopackages and I have a short list of > behaviors or features that, IMO, would be quite nice to have in Qgis. But > I'd like to have feedback from some of you before moving ahead. Maybe the > majority disagrees with my opinion or maybe I have overlooked some already > existing features :-) > > [currently testing on 2.18.11] > > 1) Creating a Geopackage DB > > As far as I see, the only way to create a Geopackage DB in Qgis is to > create a new Geopackage layer. But there are cases where I don't want to > create a new layer. I only want to create an empty Geopackage, so that I > can later, e.g. import a bunch of shapefiles into it. > > Of course, I can create a geopackage layer and delete it later, but this > is not super intuitive for the users > > 2) Qgis browser > > It would also be very handy to be able to browse the content of a > Geopackage within the Qgis browser, so that we can drag-and-drop layers > directly to the project > > 3) Multi-export to Geopackage > > If I want to migrate a whole project from Shapefiles and Tiff files to a > single Geopackage DB, I would like to multi-select them and drag-and-drop > them into an existing Geopackage DB (or a *Save all layers as...* in the > contextual menu, when I select more than 1 layer) > > > Just curious if those needs / ideas resonate and / or if there are already > plans in these directions > > Thanks and cheers > Stéphane > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > >
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