[Qgis-user] QGIS in production environment

[Bernhard Ströbl]

Hi,

we have been running QGIS together with PostGIS in a municipal GIS 
(city, some 100000 inhabitants) since at least 7 years. We run QGIS 
server on the intranet and, together with QGIS WebClient, on the 
internet [1]. We use LTS QGIS 64bit on Win7, servers are on Ubuntu.

We started with some projects and now have about 30 of them (project = 
data model for a specific purpose), the number is increasing every year. 
We do not have commercial support but build what we need ourselves. I 
can highly recommend the PostGIS data source together with QGIS 
(versatility, speed). For ease of data input I created a plugin [2]. I 
do almost all spatial operations (there are not many unfortunately :) on 
PostGIS. We use PyJasper [3] (JasperReports for Python) for any pdf 
output (reports, data sheets, letters), which - admittedly - is a bit 
tricky.

Bottom line: The combinaton does everything we need (if it doesn't we 
can have it added), users are used to QGIS (did not show them any 
alternatives, though :) and - more important - convinced that it is the 
right tool for their purposes (which means the data models implemented 
can house their informational needs). There are not many large-scale 
plots currently. We lack an easy to use web client for non-GIS staff, as 
most people can not handle a full blown QGIS. QGIS WebClient II will 
hopefully close this gap.

Feel free to ask any sppecific questions.

Bernhard

[1] http://www.jena.de/kartenportal
[2] https://github.com/bstroebl/DataDrivenInputMask
[3] https://github.com/bstroebl/pyJasper

Am 20.05.2016 um 16:14 schrieb Tyler Veinot:
> Through various product demos and meetings I am coming to realize that much
> of what we want to do could be done using open source products like; QGIS,
> PostgreSQL, Leaflet or Map Server, and a Web API. So I am wondering if
> anyone is doing something similar. I know this isn't a specific QGIS
> question so I hope you will forgive me, but if anyone one has any
> suggestions on products and/or open source packages that leverage open
> source GIS and Databases to provide a GIS centric platform to support
> municipal operations asset management and maintenance.
> Thanks for the thoughts;
> Tyler
>
>
>


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