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

[Alexandre Neto]

Done.

A 16h38 Ter, 24 de Nov de 2015, DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Thanks
>
> Yes, Richard, I've seen this path but since it's a relative one I couldn't
> figure out what was the parent folder, ignoring that sample data needed to
> be downloaded from another repo.
> So Alexandre, please, make it more explicite since we don't all
> remember/know where and what's the QGIS Data sample repo.
>
> Thanks to both of u.
>
> 2015-11-24 17:27 GMT+01:00 Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net>:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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