[Qgis-developer] Sharing 1. symbology (styles) and 2. projects incl. data and styles (GSoC, relocator, QConsolidate)

[Akbar Gumbira]

HI Stefan,

I am the one doing that GSoC project. You remind me that I need to update
the project description in osgeo wiki. The concept has changed a lot since
then. We decided that we would go with sharing collections to a directory
based repository (For now I will implement it for Github and Bitbucket). If
you have some time, I would suggest you to read the current plan here (it
would be long to explain in this email)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13ETuLBTx5IjVejB8TQPjjsMWBcUQO6pIKrNSrAZUApo/edit?usp=sharing


Cheers

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> These are thoughts on sharing 1. a whole QGIS symbology and 2. a whole
> QGIS project including symbology and data.
>
> There's a promising current GSoC project, where users ("designers,
> cartographers") can << share QGIS style files >> incl. styles (.qml),
> symbols (.xml) and SVG markers. End users can download and add styles,
> symbols or SVG markers (set of?). See
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/QGIS_Sharing_Repository .
>
> Use case A: What about sharing a symbology with dozens of layers still
> without the data? So, this is about users ("style producers") who want
> to << share a complete set QGIS styles >> which involves references to
> several data layers. End users should be able to open a dataset (like
> a vector/raster data from GeoPackage or a QGIS project), and then load
> or exchange a "symbology set". This is often the case when data is
> split into several regions or when end users capture data of same
> schema.
>
> I have no ideas yet to resolve this use case, except taking use case B
> as a (rather unmaintainable, intermediate) solution.
>
> Use case B: Users ("producers") want to easily << share a complete
> QGIS project >> including data and symbology. Currently for producers,
> it is necessary to: 1. Manually collect all required files into a
> "project directory" including project file .qgs, data, svg markers,
> color ramps (others?), 2. Edit QGIS project to adapt file paths, and
> finally 3. zip the directory and send or publish it. End users would
> unpack it and double click on the QGIS project file.
>
> Possible approaches are the relocator and QConsolidate plugins
> (possibly not maintained any more) and my "All-in-one Project"
> (unfinished). And there's Pirmin's idea to put everything into a
> GeoPackage file instead of a zip file.
>
> => Any comments or ideas?
>
> :Stefan
>
> P.S. For more issues on this like locally installed symbol fonts,
> temporary/in-memory data layers, databases, secured web services, and
> layer provider plugins) see my "All-in-one Project"
> (http://giswiki.hsr.ch/All-in-one_Project_QGIS_Plugin).
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