Thanks Klas, your videos on geopackages are really helpful, I have been testing out geopackages over the last few weeks and so far they have been working with vectors. Let hope they improve the translate options for appending rasters, I have a whole folder of raster images that I would like to put into a geopackage, but I'm struggling to get this working within QGIS. Any suggestions would be much appreciated
@@KlasKarlsson Nice. Thanks for such a quick answer. Currently I am in the middle of leading QGIS course and I want to implement GeoPackage to my students next week. Your tutorials are a big help for me! I just saw your newer video on gpkg you published like a year ago :). Now I see it's potential.
@@KlasKarlsson Unfortunately, I still do most of the course in Shapefile, because, at least in my country, it is still the most commonly used format in offices, public units, etc... However it will probably only be a matter of a few or so years when gpkg will become the default format...I hope
Geopackage is a more future proof standard geodata format than the old shape file. Shape files still works in both ArcGIS and QGIS, without the need for conversion. Geopackage has none of the shape file limitations and it can store a lot of different kind of data for your geodata needs. QGIS can read and write Geopackage, ArcGIS can read it, but only write through geoprocessing tools so editing data in a Geopackage is only feasible in QGIS.
@@KlasKarlsson WIll ESRI users be able to batch export GPKG layers to edit, similar to how we deal with GDB directories in QGIS? I'm switching to GPKG but will still need to provide data to other GIS colleagues.
@@nearch2471 According to Esri, ArcGIS Pro versino 2.6 (soon to be released) will be able to edit GPKG directly. To what extent and for what types of geodata still remains to be seen. For now this should be a question for Esri, but I'm carefully optimistic.
Hi Klas, thanks for the good work, I really benefited from your videos, I wanted to know how I can design & build a custom map for a city and give zoning for local companies to subscribe and navigate and search for customer ZIP code Locations for delivery. thanx
You set the layer crs when it is created. You can't set a overall default crs for all layers in a package. As long as each layer have the correct crs, they should display just fine in a GIS. If you want to change a layer crs, it needs to be reprojected and re-saved.
@@GregBreak Each layer has its own crs, none is more important than any other. It isn't any different from saving separate layerfiles in a folder. No layer in the folder is the master.
@@KlasKarlsson sorry, I didn t explain well. When you open a geopackaged project with multiple layer how is decided the main CRS? I know that each layer maybe has differnt CRS but it's reprojected on the fly anyway one reference will be the master for sure
