[Qgis-community-team] Looking for data to use in qgs-projects for screenshots

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 24-11-15 16:50, DelazJ wrote:
> According to
> http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/documentation_guidelines/README.html#add-new-screenshots,
> there are qgis projects that can be used to shape screenshots for the
> QGIS-Documentation project.
> I can find the project files at
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/tree/master/qgis-projects/user_manual
> but QGIS is unable to reach the data sources. The link to data in the
> qgs file seems broken and no shp file is present in the repository.
> Am I missing something? Any idea where I can find the data?

For what I know the data used for all screenshots come from the Alaska
data set:
http://qgis.org/downloads/data/qgis_sample_data.zip


If you look into the xml of the qgis files, you see relative paths to
shapefiles:

<datasource>../../../qgis_sample_data/shapefiles/rivers.shp</datasource>

see:

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/blob/master/qgis-projects/user_manual/working_with_vector_02.qgs#L4147

So:

if you download the zip, unpack it and put the folder in the same
directory as you have QGIS-Documentation folder, the qgis files 'just
work' :-)

Note: I checked on qgs file and see there is also a postgis connection
in it... but the shapefiles loaded.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde