Re: [Qgis-user] Where to store style files (qml, sld) - best practices

2020-07-21 Thread Micha Silver
On 20/07/2020 13:13, Régis Haubourg wrote: Hi, this is an interesting question. It depends a lot on your dataset organization workflow and how users access to the

Re: [Qgis-user] Where to store style files (qml, sld) - best practices

2020-07-20 Thread qgis-user
Régis makes a good point about workflow and access patterns. This made me realize that the types of maps you make impact the best place to store the style information. I tend to have two different types of projects lately. One group tends to draw from pretty much the

Re: [Qgis-user] Where to store style files (qml, sld) - best practices

2020-07-20 Thread Régis Haubourg
Hi, this is an interesting question. It depends a lot on your dataset organization workflow and how users access to the data and symbology information. I see some scenarii outhere : - traditional file system tree. Store the styles along with the files. - all in database, where users are

Re: [Qgis-user] Where to store style files (qml, sld) - best practices

2020-07-19 Thread Bernd Vogelgesang
I think he refers more to where to store style templates etc. At least for me, I never managed to build something meaningful, and although I always need the same kind of styles, I redo them evertime instead of creating good templates for my use cases. The user directory which is set by default is

Re: [Qgis-user] Where to store style files (qml, sld) - best practices

2020-07-19 Thread Jose Gomez
Hi, It's better in the same directory where you have the data and you should use the same name. If you work with shapefile, when you add the layer it recognizes the style and assigns it symbology. If you use geopackage could be better save it in the database (geopackage), for use the simbology

[Qgis-user] Where to store style files (qml, sld) - best practices

2020-07-18 Thread qgis-user
Is there a convention on where to place these files? Perhaps a new directory in the profile?  It appears they can be saved anywhere, but I'm curious about best practices conventions? Create the file in a tmp location and import into the style manager? So many