<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>Hello,<div><br></div><div>We just talked about your plugin today at the 5th meeting of French speaking QGIS user and the first feedback is it could be cool to have it natively in QGIS!</div><div><br></div><div>#qgisconffr :)</div><div><br></div><div>Y.</div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Message d'origine --------</div><div>De : doublebyte <joana@doublebyte.net> </div><div>Date : 14/12/2017 13:49 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>À : qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org </div><div>Objet : [QGIS-Developer] Support to loading GIS projects from an extended OWC geopackage in the QGIS core </div><div><br></div></div>Hello,<br><br>Maybe some of you are aware of the "geopackage" plugin<br><https://eos.geocat.net/gitlab/joana.simoes/foss4g_gpkg/blob/master/foss4g_gpkg.pdf> <br>.The initial goal of this plugin was to enable users to save their QGIS<br>projects, including style and associated resources<br> in a extended geopackage - the qgis geopackage extension<br><https://github.com/pka/qgpkg/blob/master/qgis_geopackage_extension.md> -,<br>and load it onto another QGIS installation; on this approach, the project is<br>encoded as qgs, in a database table. Later the plugin was forked to support<br>a different geopackage exension - the owc geopackage extension<br><https://github.com/pka/qgpkg/blob/master/owc_geopackage_extension.md> - ,<br>which is standards-based; in this approach<br><https://www.geocat.net/announcing-the-extended-geopackage-qgis-plugin/> ,<br>the style is encoded as OGC:SLD and the project as OGC:OWS context. The goal<br>of this approach is to support the migration of GIS projects, as we can<br>implement this extension in any desktop or server side GIS (e.g.: ArcGIS<br>Desktop).<br><br>The fork was merged in August this year, and the latest release of the <br>plugin <https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/QgisGeopackage/> already contains<br>both extensions, covering both use cases of porting QGIS projects and<br>migrating GIS projects. Recently, it was added support in the core to the <br>"qgis geopackage extension"<br><https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/blob/master/src/providers/ogr/qgsogrprovider.cpp#L762> <br>, in the qgsogrprovider class. This means that if a user loads a geopackage<br>which was encoded using the "qgis geopackage extension", it will<br>automatically load the QGIS project from it. We think that it makes sense to<br>also add the "ows geopackage extension" to the core; in that case, users<br>could load projects exported from other GIS software seamlessly, without<br>having to load the plugin. The mechanism would be very similar to what was<br>already implemented for the "qgis geopackage extension".<br><br>Before preparing any Pull Request, we would like to understand first what is<br>the general feeling of the community about this feature; is this something<br>which seems useful and interesting to add to the QGIS core? If yes, we would<br>also appreciate any comments regarding any details the implementation.<br><br>Looking forward to hearing your feedback :-)<br><br> Joana<br><br><br><br>--<br>Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-Developer-f4099106.html<br>_______________________________________________<br>QGIS-Developer mailing list<br>QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org<br>List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer<br>Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</body></html>