[Qgis-user] Is it possible to store polyline layer within a csv file?

[Ramon Andiñach]

On 18/02/2014, at 11:47 , kilolima wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I use a spreadsheet hosted on google drive to allow geographically separated
> users the ability to view and update project information. This is in the
> form of a spreadsheet of points, each row containing the details of a
> different archaeological feature. However, there is a need to record
> features that are best represented with a polyline. Currently, I have been
> using one spreadsheet for point features and an offline shapefile for linear
> features, but this dual approach has lead to confusion. 
> 
> Can a polyline layer be exported to a csv format, including the line spatial
> information in a way that it could be as easily mapped in Qgis as a point
> csv is? If so then a separate worksheet of linear features could be
> populated by links within Google Sheets. However, I have not seen any way to
> save linear or polyline information in a csv file. Using the save..as dialog
> within Qgis only produces a csv without any spatial information.

Just wondering, are the lines themselves changing or just the attributes?
If it's just the attributes then you could have a csv on google drive that the users can update. You could then join it to the offline shapefile to display it.

-ramon.