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
Your QGIS Project uses data from a PostGIS Layer
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