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

[Akbar Gumbira]

Hi Stefan,

I just read your All-In-One Project Plugin documentation here (are you
about to develop it? or already developed it?). I think more or less the
goal would be the same with current GSoC project if we extend the
definition of 'collection' to also contain data itself. So one colleciton
is a self-sufficient QGIS resources (including its data) to create a
coherent map design.

Cheers

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Akbar Gumbira <akbargumbira at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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