[OSGeo-Discuss] semi-OT... Using Google Drive as a file repository for a mapping app

[Andrea Giacomelli]

Dear Andy - many thanks for your feedback...this is helpful and reinforces
other indications I had in the meantime outside of the list.

Best regards!

Andrea Giacomelli
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Il giorno ven 18 ott 2024 alle ore 16:56 Andy Anderson <
aanderson at amherst.edu> ha scritto:

> One suggestion if you don’t want to / can’t use your own server, perhaps
> Github would work for you. I know places like the City of Cambridge,
> Massachusetts, GIS department have used it to distribute data files:
>
> https://github.com/cambridgegis
>
> — Andy
>
> On Oct 18, 2024 08:46 AM, at 8:46 AM, Andy Anderson <aanderson at amherst.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Hi, Andrea,
>
> The problem is that the link that Google Drive provides is to a “preview”
> program that turns it into a web page, even for well-known file types like
> “.txt” and “.png”. It is not a link to the “raw” file.
>
> The only way around that I’ve seen is for Sheets documents, which, when
> sharing, can be “Published to web” in standard formats such as “.csv”.
>
> — Andy
>
> On Oct 18, 2024 04:38 AM, at 4:38 AM, Andrea Giacomelli via Discuss <
> discuss at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
> Hello to all,....
>
>
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