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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Thanks to you all for your advices. However, I don’t think the reasons you highlight might be the cause. The data is only my local drive. It is a small file 475KB and there are no other added layers. I think the problem is in the software functioning when converting .kml file to .shp file.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I’m using QGIS 2.8.2 (64 bit)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Johanna Botman<br><b>Sent:</b> 15 July 2015 02:22 AM<br><b>To:</b> Nathan Woodrow<br><b>Cc:</b> qgis-user<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] Loading issues with project file in QGIS 2.4 (64 bit)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I'll try that and report back</span><br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>_______________<br>Johanna Botman<br>GIS / Assets Officer<br><br></span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Griffith City Council<br>Ph: 02 6962 8168</span><br><br><img width=16 height=16 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.gif@01D0BEB2.C0C7A570" alt="Inactive hide details for Nathan Woodrow ---15/07/2015 10:19:47 AM---My advice would be to get a copy of the data on the local "><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424282'>Nathan Woodrow ---15/07/2015 10:19:47 AM---My advice would be to get a copy of the data on the local drive for her computer and try it that way</span><br><br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F'>From: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Nathan Woodrow <<a href="mailto:madmanwoo@gmail.com">madmanwoo@gmail.com</a>></span><br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F'>To: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Johanna Botman <<a href="mailto:Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au">Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au</a>>, </span><br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F'>Cc: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>qgis-user <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>></span><br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F'>Date: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>15/07/2015 10:19 AM</span><br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F'>Subject: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Re: [Qgis-user] Loading issues with project file in QGIS 2.4 (64 bit)</span><o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#8091A5' align=left></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br>My advice would be to get a copy of the data on the local drive for her computer and try it that way to remove any network issues.<br><br>- Nathan<br><br>On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Johanna Botman <<a href="mailto:Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au" target="_blank">Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au</a>> wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>All the layers come off the same server that holds all our GIS data. The GIS data is held on a MS SQL server and copies of that data are made into TAB and SHP files overnight. In this case, the user has her own mapped drive with her own copy of those files (I can be risk averse as well).</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><br>I know that I haven't changed anything. It is hard to know who may have made changes and what changes they made.</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><br>_______________<br>Johanna Botman<br>GIS / Assets Officer<br></span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><br>Griffith City Council<br>Ph: </span><a href="tel:02%206962%208168" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>02 6962 8168</span></a><br><br><img border=0 width=16 height=16 id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image001.gif@01D0BEB2.C0C7A570" alt="Inactive hide details for Nathan Woodrow ---15/07/2015 10:12:57 AM---The other layers are coming off the network? If it's been"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424282'>Nathan Woodrow ---15/07/2015 10:12:57 AM---The other layers are coming off the network? If it's been working fine something else has changed b</span><br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F'><br>From: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Nathan Woodrow <</span><a href="mailto:madmanwoo@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>madmanwoo@gmail.com</span></a><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>><span style='color:#5F5F5F'><br>To: </span>Johanna Botman <</span><a href="mailto:Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au</span></a><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>>, <span style='color:#5F5F5F'><br>Cc: </span>qgis-user <</span><a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</span></a><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>><span style='color:#5F5F5F'><br>Date: </span>15/07/2015 10:12 AM</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F'><br>Subject: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Re: [Qgis-user] Loading issues with project file in QGIS 2.4 (64 bit)</span><o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#A0A0A0' align=left></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><br><br><br>The other layers are coming off the network? If it's been working fine something else has changed by the sounds of it.<br><br>- Nathan<br><br>On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Johanna Botman <<a href="mailto:Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au" target="_blank">Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au</a>> wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Thanks for the quick response Nathan,<br><br>I'm not sure if you are familiar with Dial Before You Dig. When a request is made for information about the underground assets in a particular area, our council is one of the organisations that are asked to respond. That request is emailed to us and contains a .gml file with the specified location details.<br><br>In order to speed up the processing at our end, I set up a project file that accepts this gml file, we zoom to the layer, align that with the canvas and produce the pdf file that goes back to the initial requestor.<br><br>It worked fine for at least the last year. The layers in the project file are not large. The largest is 13Mb, the smallest is a few kilobytes. There are 17 layers in the project. I have had a request to put aerial imagery under the maps, but have resisted that because of the size of the images.<br><br>What else do you need to know?<br><br>_______________<br>Johanna Botman<br>GIS / Assets Officer</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><br><br>Griffith City Council<br>Ph: </span><a href="tel:02%206962%208168" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>02 6962 8168</span></a><br><br><img border=0 width=16 height=16 id="_x0000_i1029" src="cid:image001.gif@01D0BEB2.C0C7A570" alt="Inactive hide details for Nathan Woodrow ---15/07/2015 09:24:18 AM---On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Johanna Botman < Johanna."><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424282'>Nathan Woodrow ---15/07/2015 09:24:18 AM---On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Johanna Botman < </span><a href="mailto:Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#424282'>> wrote:</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#5F5F5F'><br><br>From: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Nathan Woodrow <</span><a href="mailto:madmanwoo@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>madmanwoo@gmail.com</span></a><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>><span style='color:#5F5F5F'><br>To: </span>Johanna Botman <</span><a href="mailto:Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au</span></a><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>>, <span style='color:#5F5F5F'><br>Cc: </span>qgis-user <</span><a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</span></a><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>><span style='color:#5F5F5F'><br>Date: </span>15/07/2015 09:24 AM<span style='color:#5F5F5F'><br>Subject: </span>Re: [Qgis-user] Loading issues with project file in QGIS 2.4 (64 bit)</span><o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#A0A0A0' align=left></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><br><br><br><br><br>On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Johanna Botman <<a href="mailto:Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au" target="_blank">Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au</a>> wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:108.0pt'>but IT tell me it is the nature of open source software.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><br>Good thing your IT is wrong then hey :P <br><br>I also suspect network if the files are large it will pull the whole thing over the network before it can open it. GML also isn't the most efficient format in the world so take that into consideration.<br><br>What other layers are in the project? If you have lots of network layers it will try and read them when you load the new layer in order to refresh the map, remember each pan is going to read the files to get the data.<br><br>We will need a bit more info on the project and files to help more.<br><br>- Nathan <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:72.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span> <o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=left></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>This e-mail, together with any attachments, is for the exclusive and confidential use of the addressee(s). Confidentiality is not waived if you are not the intended recipient. 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