Stores#

Overview#

Quail divides Stores into two types:

  • QGIS Store

  • PostGIS Store

These Stores can be used to support virtually all GIS data formats.

QGIS Store#

A File Store can be created from any of the following:

  • A QGIS Project File and any associated Raster, Vector, and static files.

  • Spatial Data File Only. Supported types are TIFF, GeoTIFF, Shapefile, or GeoJSON

  • A QGIS Store

Examples of static data sources include:

  • GeoTiff

  • GeoDatabase

  • Shapefile

  • GeoPackage

  • GeoJson

  • etc….

Note

If your QGIS Project uses PostGIS as a data source, create a PostGIS Store.

PostGIS Store#

A PostGIS Store is used when

  1. Your QGIS Project uses data from a PostGIS Layer

  2. You wish to convert your static data to PostGIS

If you wish to convert a static data source to PostGIS, you can upload the following

  • GeoPackage

  • Esri Shapefile

  • PostGIS dump

Other formats can be loaded using ogr2ogr