[Qgis-user] Working with geopackages in Qgis

[Stéphane Henriod]

Dear all

I am making a few tests with Geopackages and I have a short list of
behaviors or features that, IMO, would be quite nice to have in Qgis. But
I'd like to have feedback from some of you before moving ahead. Maybe the
majority disagrees with my opinion or maybe I have overlooked some already
existing features :-)

[currently testing on 2.18.11]

1) Creating a Geopackage DB

As far as I see, the only way to create a Geopackage DB in Qgis is to
create a new Geopackage layer. But there are cases where I don't want to
create a new layer. I only want to create an empty Geopackage, so that I
can later, e.g. import a bunch of shapefiles into it.

Of course, I can create a geopackage layer and delete it later, but this is
not super intuitive for the users

2) Qgis browser

It would also be very handy to be able to browse the content of a
Geopackage within the Qgis browser, so that we can drag-and-drop layers
directly to the project

3) Multi-export to Geopackage

If I want to migrate a whole project from Shapefiles and Tiff files to a
single Geopackage DB, I would like to multi-select them and drag-and-drop
them into an existing Geopackage DB (or  a *Save all layers as...* in the
contextual menu, when I select more than 1 layer)


Just curious if those needs / ideas resonate and / or if there are already
plans in these directions

Thanks and cheers
Stéphane
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