Corvus · @Corvus
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@rjhale1971 I've had good experience stuffing a lot into a geopackage. Agreed it lacks the functionality of PostGIS but for contained geospatial mapping projects that are easily portable between QGIS users with various experience levels using databases it works well.

#gpkg #qgis

Last updated 1 year ago

marwe · @marwe
61 followers · 526 posts · Server fosstodon.org

Something I tend to preach to users has been put on a website with details:
switchfromshapefile.org/

Don't use if you have no special usecase.
* exchange with dumb programs often still relies on it, though most implementations I see in real life are broken and ex-/import fail horribly
* even the company that invented the file format (30 yrs ago?) usually produces invalid data
* you never know, if the file format of the multiple files is borken or just the content
* use more

#shapefiles #gpkg

Last updated 4 years ago