[Qgis-user] QGIS Server and CSV-files

[Tyler Mitchell]

Was it just me or does the email server take a couple hours sometimes to process a message?

On 2012-10-29, at 10:41 AM, Tyler Mitchell wrote:

> I haven't tried it but you should be able to do it using QGIS's builtin OGR functionality.  You would have to create a XML "wrapper" that defines how to load the CSV file (eg. which columns are x and y).
> It's described well at http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_csv.html
> 
> Then you would load the XML/VRT file into QGIS instead of the CSV directly.
> 
> Hope that makes some sense!
> Tyler
> 
> On 2012-10-29, at 8:47 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> 
>> I don't know.
>> 
>> CSV files are loaded with a plugin - they are not part of the core data
>> providers.
>> 
>> Marco Hugentobler would have to answer this question. I can't answer it,
>> sorry.
>> 
>> If you have the chance to use a database (SpatiaLite or Postgis) those
>> are much preferred over csv files. Performance would be better and
>> handling would be easier.
>> 
>> Andreas
>> 
>> Am 29.10.2012 15:42, schrieb Thomas Baumann:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> just a quick question concerning the qgis-server:
>>> 
>>> Is it possible to use QGIS-project-files that contain csv-layers?
>>> 
>>> I just tried to load a wms-service from such a project-file and get an "500
>>> Internal Server Error".
>>> If I use qgs-files in combination with shapefiles this error does not occur.
>>> 
>>> In the apache-log I found:
>>> 
>>> mod_fcgid: *error reading data*, FastCGI server closed connection,
>>> 
>>> Premature end of script headers: qgis_mapserv.fcgi,
>>> 
>>> [error] mod_fcgid: process /usr/lib/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi(9137)
>>> exit(communication error), get unexpected signal 11
>>> 
>>> 
>>> best wishes,
>>> 
>>> Thomas
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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