[Qgis-user] Adding a Mac to a group of PCs

[Árni Geirsson]

Thanks Jim
Your answer encourages me to try the PostGIS option - it obviously has some
other useful advantages. But your reply also made me realize that the
problem is really that much of the data I have is on another network share
- hence the problem with the paths. I should simply move the data so that
everything is on the same share and and then, relative paths will solve the
problem.
Again, thank you for a very helpful answer.

Arni


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On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:26 PM, James Keener <jim at jimkeener.com> wrote:

> Re: postgresql in my experience it's neither cumbersome nor slow. Feel
> free to email me for help if you would like to explore that route.
>
> Are the paths in you qgs file relative or absolute? If their relative, is
> the issue that the path separator is different? If that is the issue, I
> would file a bug report. (If they are absolute, try saving them with
> relative paths.)
>
> Jim
>
> On September 1, 2015 11:12:10 AM EDT, "Árni Geirsson" <arni at alta.is>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I am adding a Mac to a local network of PCs. The Mac user uses QGIS (as
>> well as the PCs) and accesses data on a shared drive. Now the problem comes
>> up that data sources have different paths to the shared drive in each
>> operating system, making cooperation difficult. On the other hand, since
>> the .qgs file is easy to edit, some simple solution might map the paths
>> automatically on open and back on save, to compensate for these
>> differences. And maybe there is some other solution out there.
>> I realize that having all shared data in PostGIS might be one way to
>> solve this but I suspect that it might be both slower and a little more
>> cumbersome.
>> All thoughts and suggestions are highly appreciated.
>>
>> Árni Geirsson
>>
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