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

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi Dave,

if I'm not wrong, you can create QGIS Server plugin which will perform
this operation

2016-02-27 0:26 GMT+02:00 Dave Tobias <terra2you at gmail.com>:
> 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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Alexander Bruy