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Given a specific (locally extended/stored) symbology and styling in QGIS which refers to several different shapefiles or tables (GeoPackage/Spatialite), how can I easily move or share this with another QGIS desktop user?

Currently, the QGIS symbology is managed in the project file (.qgs) plus there are configuration settings like symbology and font paths. So the symbology is "hard wired" to the dataset and to local symbologies and fonts.

What I want is to publish a single "generic/template" symbology (i.e. signature/symbol settings) with a mapping to exchangeable datasets names - all in paths relative to the symbology (but without the dataset). ArcGIS knows a similar thing they call .MDX and "Map Package".

An example would be a topographic map style from an authority ("mytopostyle" with .qgs, symbole/text fonts, etc.) referring to mydata, which is then published and applied to different, separate regions containing all the same data schema (files mydata_region_A.sqlite, mydata_region_B.sqlite , ...).

Any hints?

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  • This might be a duplicate of gis.stackexchange.com/questions/88834 I'm somewhat unclear on what you're after. A map package in ArcGIS contains everything - the symbology and the data. If you just want symbology you can share, in ArcGIS that's a layer (lyr) file. And in QGIS it's covered at the above link. giswiki.hsr.ch/QGIS_All-in-one_Project_Plugin talks about the equivalent to a map package (not sure if there are other methods). Fonts may not be included - some can't be redistributed and it depends on the software if a font is just referenced or embedded in an output.
    – Chris W
    Commented May 24, 2015 at 22:01
  • To me, it seems like the key issue here are SVG and font paths. I'm not sure there is a good solution though ...
    – underdark
    Commented May 24, 2015 at 22:50
  • Chris: To rephrase my question: It's about to how to best setup a QGIS project file .qgs and all files needed for the symbology including symbols (e.g. .svg) and fonts (without the data). The All-in-one Project Plugin (which comes from my lab) covers another use case where one wants to move one single whole project to another computer. This use case is about a symbology like a "template" which renders datasets of same schema.
    – Stefan
    Commented May 24, 2015 at 22:50
  • underdark: Exactly - but not only the paths also the SVG and fonts themselves which need to be "installed" in a user friendly way. AFAIK ArcGIS has a similar problem at least for adjusting paths to the data for every layer - so QGIS could take a lead here :-)
    – Stefan
    Commented May 24, 2015 at 22:53

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Chris and underdark: It seems that there's no answer out-of-the-box. But your comments brought up to me a possible partial solution.

One could re-use the "All-in-one Project" (AIOP) file package and plugin!

As a publisher:

  1. First one would setup everything (symbology, symbols/fonts and a demo dataset).
  2. Then one could (somehow) remove the dataset,
  3. and deliver/publish this truncated AIOP file.

As a consumer:

  1. After downlading the AIOP file
  2. the plugin would install the symbols/fonts...
  3. ... and during re-opening, QGIS would ask for the data.

I still have to think over this solution and probably have to enhance the AIOP plugin (still experimental).

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