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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Thanks for the quick response Nathan,</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">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.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">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.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">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.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">What else do you need to know?</font><br>
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Johanna Botman<br>
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<img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=45BBF411DF102D848f9e@griffith.nsw.gov.au" border="0" 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."><font size="2" color="#424282" face="sans-serif">Nathan Woodrow ---15/07/2015 09:24:18 AM---On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Johanna Botman < Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au> wrote:</font><br>
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<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">From: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo@gmail.com></font><br>
<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">To: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Johanna Botman <Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au>, </font><br>
<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">Cc: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">qgis-user <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org></font><br>
<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">Date: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">15/07/2015 09:24 AM</font><br>
<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">Subject: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Re: [Qgis-user] Loading issues with project file in QGIS 2.4 (64 bit)</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Johanna Botman <</font><a href="mailto:Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au" target="_blank"><font size="3" color="#0000FF" face="serif"><u>Johanna.Botman@griffith.nsw.gov.au</u></font></a><font size="3" face="serif">> wrote:</font>
<ul style="padding-left: 9pt"><font size="3" face="serif">but IT tell me it is the nature of open source software.</font></ul>
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<font size="3" face="serif">Good thing your IT is wrong then hey :P </font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">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.</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">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.</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">We will need a bit more info on the project and files to help more.</font><br>
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<font size="3" face="serif">- Nathan</font><br>
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