<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">You may have some options depending on the train-ability of your staff and what level of cloud-savvy you'd like to apply:<div><br></div><div>1. You could look at getting a VPS on AWS or similar cloud-provider and create a virtual machine which you can VPN into that could provide standard-ish network shared drives.</div><div>2. If you have a lot of vector data, look at putting them into an Amazon RDS. (<a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Appendix.PostgreSQL.CommonDBATasks.html#Appendix.PostgreSQL.CommonDBATasks.PostGIS">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Appendix.PostgreSQL.CommonDBATasks.html#Appendix.PostgreSQL.CommonDBATasks.PostGIS</a>) </div><div>3. If you have a lot of imagery you could look at converting the images to cloud-optimized geotiffs and then streaming them. (<a href="https://www.cogeo.org/qgis-tutorial.html">https://www.cogeo.org/qgis-tutorial.html</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, you may be able to just the S3 or a similar object store with a utility like CyberDuck (<a href="https://cyberduck.io/">https://cyberduck.io/</a>, no relation). Then people can upload/download data and organize it "in the cloud" in a fairly similar way to Dropbox.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 12:04 PM Jennifer Strahan <<a href="mailto:strahanjen@gmail.com">strahanjen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. <div><br></div><div>I'm looking for suggestions for approaching GIS data storage that will work for staff in various places. Our (young) organization has been using Dropbox to store and share GIS data and we use QGIS for most of our desktop-based spatial analysis and map design. As our data collection on Dropbox grows, I am finding that our individual hard drives are filled up and it is tedious to figure out which folders to sync and un-sync as we open different map projects.</div><div><br></div><div>In the past, I've worked at a place that had a local network with 2TB of data and when I worked remotely, I used a remote desktop connection to a computer in the office when I wanted to work with the data there. I'm guessing a lot has changed since then. I'm wondering what approach we should be currently considering and hoping that we can stick with an Open Source GIS approach. </div><div><br></div><div>Any suggestions? </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Jennifer</div></div>
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