[Qgis-user] QGIS and geopackages in sharepoint environement

[John Layt]

Hi,

We use Google Drive on Macs for shapefile and GeoPackages. The first thing
we always tell our users is to set the files to Available Offline, so all
reads/writes are local before being synced up to the cloud. That reduces
issues, but all the obvious ones around file corruption and overwriting
still apply. As mentioned, GDAL/QGIS did use to always write the lockfile
inside whenever anyone opened a geopackage, which would cause the file to
sync back to the cloud and flood your bandwidth, which is a real pain. That
has changed, but it doesn't solve the multiple-users overwriting issue
though. My long-term solution was going to be building a proper geospatial
infrastructure with MerginMaps and PostGIS so people 'check-out' the
geopackages they needed, then merged them back in. Sadly we've just been
sold to an ESRI-using company, so that will never happen, however they do
use Sharepoint so maybe I'll find out if that's any better than Drive in my
near future.

Cheers!

John.
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