[Qgis-community-team] Qgis-community-team Digest, Vol 141, Issue 13

Wed Feb 12 10:51:14 PST 2020

Hi Jeff,

This is still on my to do list. I will try to get to it in the next couple
months (possibly sooner).

Happy GeoPackage Day!

Thanks,
Shilo

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>    1. Re: Documentation - Data Capture - Shapefile to GeoPackage
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>    2. Re: Documentation - Data Capture - Shapefile to GeoPackage
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> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:00:08 -0400
> From: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> To: qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-community-team] Documentation - Data Capture -
>         Shapefile to GeoPackage
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> 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
> >
> >
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:07:13 +0000
> From: Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com>
> To: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> Cc: qgis-community-team at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-community-team] Documentation - Data Capture -
>         Shapefile to GeoPackage
> Message-ID: <9C905889-F54A-4F1B-8A1A-A2CD93A7DC10 at kartoza.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
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> Thanks Jeff and Shilo
>
>
> If you submit a PR Shilo, pop me a note, I will be happy to review it.
> That book was written a loooong time ago when GeoPackage was still a speck
> in someone’s imagination :-) Glad you are still finding it useful.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> > On 12 Feb 2020, at 14:00, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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
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