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

[Árni Geirsson]

That's an interesting approach, John. I'll have to have a better look the
Grass style directory structure.

Árni


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On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:12 PM, John Harrop <jcharrop at gmail.com> wrote:

> Árni,
>
> We have been working very successfully with the same combination.  In
> fact, most of the PC users were using ESRI software with the Macs using
> only QGIS (obviously?).  We use a directory structure based on the Grass
> style and shared (across continents) using Dropbox.  Most are using the
> business version of Dropbox for better control on read/write access.
>
> A simplesolution for us has been to use two qgs files if needed for the
> same data files (or the ESRI equivalent).  The problem has then been
> limited to sharing formatting and the data sharing has been quite seamless.
>
> I like the PostGIS idea and I’m moving to that more as well, but I’m not
> sure how much more that solves regarding sharing versus the simpler method
> explained above.
>
> John Harrop
>
> On Sep 1, 2015, at 8:12 AM, 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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