<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Arni,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Postgis is certainly an excellent option. </div><div class="">Regarding the data sources, currently QGis cannot use relative paths to files or photos (at least) but to svg's in styling (and maybe other, I don’t have an exhaustive list). One option to bypass the files issue would be to use a web server and store URL instead of internal paths. For instance you could have a web server, and whenever a file (or photo) is added generate with a Postgresql trigger the corresponding url in another attribute, making the file available to all the users, either through a form or through an action. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Didier</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Le 1 sept. 2015 à 17:45, Árni Geirsson <<a href="mailto:arni@alta.is" class="">arni@alta.is</a>> a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Thanks Jim<div class="">Your answer encourages me to try the PostGIS option - it obviously has some other useful advantages. But your reply also made me realize that the problem is really that much of the data I have is on another network share - hence the problem with the paths. I should simply move the data so that everything is on the same share and and then, relative paths will solve the problem.</div><div class="">Again, thank you for a very helpful answer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Arni</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div class=""><br class=""></div><font color="#666666" class="">Árni Geirsson<br class=""><span style="font-size:x-small" class=""><font color="#666666" class=""><b class="">Alta ehf</b> // +354 582 5000 // +354 897 9549</font></span></font><div class=""><font color="#666666" class=""><span style="font-size:x-small" class=""><a href="http://www.alta.is/" target="_blank" class="">www.alta.is</a> // </span><span style="font-size:x-small" class=""><a href="http://twitter.com/alta_ehf" target="_blank" class="">Alta á Twitter</a> // <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alta/161795813838691?v=wall" target="_blank" class="">Alta á Facebook</a></span></font><br class=""></div></div></div>
<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:26 PM, James Keener <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:jim@jimkeener.com" target="_blank" class="">jim@jimkeener.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">Re: postgresql in my experience it's neither cumbersome nor slow. Feel free to email me for help if you would like to explore that route.<br class="">
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Are the paths in you qgs file relative or absolute? If their relative, is the issue that the path separator is different? If that is the issue, I would file a bug report. (If they are absolute, try saving them with relative paths.)<br class="">
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Jim<br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><div class="h5">On September 1, 2015 11:12:10 AM EDT, "Árni Geirsson" <<a href="mailto:arni@alta.is" target="_blank" class="">arni@alta.is</a>> wrote:</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5">
<div dir="ltr" class="">Hi<div class="">I am adding a Mac to a local network of PCs. The Mac user uses QGIS (as well as the PCs) and accesses data on a shared drive. Now the problem comes up that data sources have different paths to the shared drive in each operating system, making cooperation difficult. On the other hand, since the .qgs file is easy to edit, some simple solution might map the paths automatically on open and back on save, to compensate for these differences. And maybe there is some other solution out there. </div><div class="">I realize that having all shared data in PostGIS might be one way to solve this but I suspect that it might be both slower and a little more cumbersome.</div><div class="">All thoughts and suggestions are highly appreciated.</div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><font color="#666666" class="">Árni Geirsson<br class=""><br class=""></font></div></div>
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