<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://github.com/cambridgegis" class="">https://github.com/cambridgegis</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">— Andy<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 18, 2024 08:46 AM, at 8:46 AM, Andy Anderson <aanderson@amherst.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="content-isolator__container"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi, Andrea,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">— Andy<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 18, 2024 04:38 AM, at 4:38 AM, Andrea Giacomelli via Discuss <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org" class="">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hello to all,<br class=""><br class="">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. <br class="">In absence of feedback for the moment I am relaying it also here...maybe somebody has tried this.<br class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">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....<br class=""><br class="">example:<br class=""><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Iao_JWwGgOqrFTGNdjxvuTSaq1whnXz9/view?usp=sharing" class="">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Iao_JWwGgOqrFTGNdjxvuTSaq1whnXz9/view?usp=sharing</a><br class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">I noted that Drive uses different URL for the file depending on the function (e.g. <a href="https://drive.usercontent.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1Iao_JWwGgOqrFTGNdjxvuTSaq1whnXz9&export=download" class="">https://drive.usercontent.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1Iao_JWwGgOqrFTGNdjxvuTSaq1whnXz9&export=download</a> )...but I cannot find a documentation about this...<br class=""><br class="">TIA for any feedback, and best regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Andrea Giacomelli</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.pibinko.org/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.pibinko.org</a> Cultura, ambiente, innovazione libera...</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.jugbandcm.it/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.jugbandcm.it</a> ...e musica</div><div class="">+39 3791680739 - voce</div><div class="">+39 3317539228 - whatsapp</div><div class="">PIVA 01582480537</div><br class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""><br class=""></div><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Andrea Giacomelli</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.pibinko.org/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.pibinko.org</a> Cultura, ambiente, innovazione libera...</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.jugbandcm.it/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.jugbandcm.it</a> ...e musica</div><div class="">+39 3791680739 - voce</div><div class="">+39 3317539228 - whatsapp</div><div class="">PIVA 01582480537</div></div></div></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" class=""><br class=""><table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="width:55px;padding-top:13px" class=""><a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail" target="_blank" class=""><img src="https://s-install.avcdn.net/ipm/preview/icons/icon-envelope-tick-round-orange-animated-no-repeat-v1.gif" alt="" width="46" height="29" style="width: 46px; height: 29px;" class=""></a></td><td style="width:470px;padding-top:12px;color:#41424e;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px" class="">Virus-free.<a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail" target="_blank" style="color:#4453ea" class="">www.avast.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="x-msg://2/#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1" class=""></a></div>
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