[Qgis-community-team] Documentation - Data Capture - Shapefile to GeoPackage

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Shilo!

As today is the official "GeoPackage Day"[1], I wonder if you could just 
proceed with your plan, and create a pull request of your changes 
towards the github docs repository[2].

Thank you and happy GeoPackage Day, ha! :)

-jeff


[1] https://twitter.com/mapserving/status/1227577364391002112
[2] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation

On 2020-01-20 4:36 p.m., Shilo Rohlman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to the QGIS community (coming from an ArcGIS background). I am 
> in the process of learning QGIS, so I was reviewing the documentation.
> 
> One of the first QGIS documents I encountered was on Data Capture in the 
> Gentle GIS Intro section. The brief overview gives information on the 
> Shapefile rather than GeoPackage. It would be nice to see this article 
> updated to use the GeoPackage by default so new users understand that 
> there is a push to move away from Shapefiles.
> https://docs.qgis.org/3.4/en/docs/gentle_gis_introduction/data_capture.html
> 
> Perhaps I would be able to help make this update via GitHub. I have used 
> GitHub before, but am new to the GeoPackage details and the QGIS 
> documentation standards, so I may need some assistance. This is a 
> subject I want to learn more about. Let me know how I can help.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shilo
> 
>