[Qgis-user] How to store spatial information of various geometry types (point, line, polygon) in one place?

[kilolima]

Hi All,

For work, we use a Google Sheets spreadsheet that is accessible to various
people. The spreadsheet is mostly text attribute data with spatial
information stored in WKT fields (points and polylines). When it comes time
to make a map, I download a csv and import into QGIS. I realized that the
csv import process will only allow one geometry type during the import and
discard the others. This results in having to repeat the import process for
each geometry type in the csv.

Is there some better way to do this, ideally that would allow text and
spatial data of various geometry types to be stored and read all at once? Is
there a way to get around the seemingly archaic separation of vector layers
based on geometry types? Is there a native QGIS format that can handle this
and import from a spreadsheet?

Or, ideally, is there some sort of magical connector between Google Sheets
and QGIS, so a change online in Sheets would update the map in QGIS?

cheers,

kilolima



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