[TCMUG] Modern GIS data storage approaches?

[Dan Little]

You may have some options depending on the train-ability of your staff and
what level of cloud-savvy you'd like to apply:

1. You could look at getting a VPS on AWS or similar cloud-provider and
create a virtual machine which you can VPN into that could provide
standard-ish network shared drives.
2. If you have a lot of vector data, look at putting them into an Amazon
RDS. (
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Appendix.PostgreSQL.CommonDBATasks.html#Appendix.PostgreSQL.CommonDBATasks.PostGIS
)
3. If you have a lot of imagery you could look at converting the images to
cloud-optimized geotiffs and then streaming them. (
https://www.cogeo.org/qgis-tutorial.html)

Finally, you may be able to just the S3 or a similar object store with a
utility like CyberDuck (https://cyberduck.io/, no relation).  Then people
can upload/download data and organize it "in the cloud" in a fairly similar
way to Dropbox.


On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 12:04 PM Jennifer Strahan <strahanjen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.
>
> I'm looking for suggestions for approaching GIS data storage that will
> work for staff in various places.  Our (young) organization has been using
> Dropbox to store and share GIS data and we use QGIS for most of our
> desktop-based spatial analysis and map design.   As our data collection on
> Dropbox grows, I am finding that our individual hard drives are filled up
> and it is tedious to figure out which folders to sync and un-sync as we
> open different map projects.
>
> In the past, I've worked at a place that had a local network with 2TB of
> data and when I worked remotely, I used a remote desktop connection to a
> computer in the office when I wanted to work with the data there.  I'm
> guessing a lot has changed since then.  I'm wondering what approach we
> should be currently considering and hoping that we can stick with an Open
> Source GIS approach.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Best,
> Jennifer
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