[Qgis-user] Looking for a suggestion on a vector format

[Randal Hale]

Ye gads...

Well....I would say no to shapefiles.
Spatialite would work - probably postgis would be better.

You could contain your project in one QGIS File - for instance I'm story 
an entire project in postgis and am retrieving various components 
through about 20 qgs files. All the annotation etc is stored in the qgs 
file, all labels, line colors, and map layouts. All the data is stored 
in PostGIS.

Of course that's a much larger discussion than my simple few sentences - 
but I think if you want everything stand alone.....eh - it's going to 
have to be at least two components or QGIS/<file format> of some sort. I 
think there will always be some external querying (be it automatic or 
manual)....of I'm understanding it all correctly.

...and I just looked at your example and that's a head scratcher. I 
think QGIS with Atlas to pull from the database automatically maybe a 
better train of thought.

I just wanted to say Good Luck, We're all counting on you.

Randy

On 12/18/2015 09:14 AM, Jesse McGraw wrote:
> All,
>   Before I go too far down the wrong path perhaps you can help me with 
> a suggestion on a vector format to use for a project of mine:
>
> I'm to looking to basically re-create various Instrument Approach 
> Procedure plates (see here 
> <http://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/1513/00375il28r.pdf> for an example for 
> San Francisco International - SFO ) from a database via a perl script 
> and display a number of them as vector overlays in an existing QGIS 
> project
>
> What would be a good format to use for this purpose?
>
> I'm imagining something like a QGIS project file, but I want it to 
> contain to contain all of the various bits of information internally 
> (coordinates, names, styling, icons etc.) and not have to query 
> anything external so each file is a stand-alone unit.
>
> Ideally all of the coordinates would be real world lon/lat so no 
> transformation would be required.  Bonus points if the format is 
> openly standardized and easy to work with
>
> DWG/DXF?  SVG?
>
> Thanks,
>   Jesse
>
>
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