Responsive background maps with QGIS Cloud
Sourcepole QGIS Cloud is a great and convenient way to publish geodata as webmaps, to have a database and to manage everything from the desktop GIS. No need to run and maintain a server.
Today our topic is handling of background maps in QGIS Cloud. QGIS Cloud maps are normally WMS maps delivered by QGIS Server. However most maps consist of a foreground (vector) theme and a background raster layer.
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Since a few years I get more and more obsessed about the performance of my daily work tools. It took a long time to realize how slow today’s software is, compared to similar software I was working with 20 or even 30 years ago. Software bloat compensating any hardware performance improvements seems to belong to the laws of nature.
Read onA script to grep ansible vault files
Read onAnsible’s known_hosts module’s documentation is a bit scanty. Here’s a more complete example on how to use the module:
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QGIS Cloud (www.qgiscloud.com) is a platform which provides a convenient geodata infrastructure including database, web services and web maps in the cloud. Recently, Sourcepole implemented the possibility to enable web-based editing in published maps. This blog post shows how to enable editing in QGIS cloud pro maps.
We start with my_edit_project.qgs, a project in QGIS desktop containing a background layer and a point vector layer (trees).
We upload the data to QGIS Cloud using the QGIS Cloud plugin and publish the project.
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