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Hi,<br>
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Regarding relative paths to files and photos, it would be a quite
trivial - and useful - change to fix this.<br>
If you would like to help funding this, please do not hesitate to
contact me.<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
Matthias<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/01/2015 06:38 PM, didier peeters
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<div class="">Arni,</div>
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<div class="">Postgis is certainly an excellent option. </div>
<div class="">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. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">Thanks Jim
<div class="">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.</div>
<div class="">Again, thank you for a very helpful answer.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:26 PM,
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<div class="">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.<br
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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.)<br class="">
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Jim<br class="">
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<div dir="ltr" class="">Hi
<div class="">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. </div>
<div class="">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.</div>
<div class="">All thoughts and suggestions
are highly appreciated.</div>
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