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

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi,

Regarding relative paths to files and photos, it would be a quite
trivial - and useful - change to fix this.
If you would like to help funding this, please do not hesitate to
contact me.

Kind regards,
Matthias

On 09/01/2015 06:38 PM, didier peeters wrote:
> Arni,
>
> Postgis is certainly an excellent option.  
> Regarding the data sources, currently QGis cannot use relative paths
> to files or photos (at least) but to svg's in styling (and maybe
> other, I don’t have an exhaustive list). One option to bypass the
> files issue would be to use a web server and store URL instead of
> internal paths.  For instance you could have a web server, and
> whenever a file (or photo) is added generate with a Postgresql trigger
> the corresponding url in another attribute, making the file available
> to all the users, either through a form or through an action.  
>
> Didier
>
>
>> Le 1 sept. 2015 à 17:45, Árni Geirsson <arni at alta.is
>> <mailto:arni at alta.is>> a écrit :
>>
>> 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
>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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