[Qgis-user] Getting There, From Here (How to get this Shapefile into a tablet!)

[James Keener]

Depending on how much space you're willing to give it, you could pre
compute tiles and have a single-folder webpage (via the qgis2web plugin)
you could load on your device and view it on its web browser.

There is the Android Osmand application for viewing OSM data (via
network of offline downloads!) I'm not sure how you would go about
converting your information into a format it could handle, but it could
be an interesting project.

There is, somewhere, an Android version of QGIS, you may want to seek
out it's status and see if it'll work on your device.

Jim

On 08/29/2015 10:46 AM, Adam Sherman wrote:
> This is maybe slightly off-topic, but I'm hoping this is the right place
> to figure this out: I've been tearing my hair out trying to get from
> there to here, so I'm posting in the hope that someone has done this
> before me.
> 
> The Province of Quebec, Canada, now publishes road data in multiple formats:
> 
> MapInfo (TAB)
> ESRI (SHP)
> ESRI (PGDB)
> ESRI (FGDB)
> Géomédia (MDB)
> 
> I opened the SHP in QGIS and it is incredibly detailed! It contains
> forestry roads not found in any other data that I have looked at. So, I
> want this in my truck. But I have been completely unable to get it to
> work, short of carrying my laptop with me.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> I have:
> 
> A MacBook
> I can run Windows on it
> An Android tablet
> A iPad (iOS)
> 
> Note: The SHP file is 1.6 GB.
> 
> The goal is pretty much any way to get the data onto a tablet with a GPS
> app. I don't mind buying some software, either.
> 
> Thanks for any and all comments or suggestions,
> 
> A.
> 
> -- 
> Adam Sherman
> Directeur des opérations, Sauvetage bénévole Outaouais
> Director of Operations, Ottawa Volunteer SAR
> CTO, Versature Corp.
> +1 613 797 6819
> 
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