[Qgis-user] Assistance with high-level use case of QGIS for commercial use

[James Keener]

Have you thought about using PostGIS and Python/Ruby/PHP/Perl/&c?  I'm
not 100% sure how you would respond to a file upload with the QGIS
python API.

Jim

On 02/26/2016 05:26 PM, Dave Tobias wrote:
> I'm new to QGIS and have been a very long time user of a commercial GIS
> solution.  Their fee to deploy a mapservice has opened my eyes to other
> options.  I use the term mapservice loosely because what I want to
> deploy won't even have a map GUI.  It is quite simple actually:
> I would like to deploy QGIS such that multiple non--GIS users can use
> their individual secure logins to upload a .txt file (in a prescribed
> format) which will contain a feature ID, latitude and longitude
> coordinate for each row.  Then in batch mode, the program would then
> overlay the points with a polygon layer I maintain on that server. The
> output would be a .txt file containing the input attributes plus 1
> attribute added to each row from the polygon layer. No map display
> needed, no other user interaction.  This is a simple geospatial
> operation for which they will pay a nominal fee.
> I was able to do this same operation manually with QGIS desktop and I
> see there is an API to perform the operation as a script.  So...are
> there any barriers to me doing this with QGIS/QGIS Server? Is there
> support for this use-case already? I searched but didn't come up with
> any concrete examples in the forums already - a few were interactive
> apps, but I need mine to run in batch mode.
> Thanks in advance - hopefully I'm sending to the correct forum!
> 
> 
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