GIS project publication on Web

GIS projects are created and managed by QGIS application, which is a main tool for geospatial tasks in GIS.lab environment. QGIS is accessible under GIS.lab ‣ GIS.lab Desktop item in GIS.lab applications menu.

Due to integrated Gisquick (http://gisquick.org) it is possible to publish GIS projects created in Desktop to Web environment just in few steps.

In following steps simplest possible GIS project will be created and published on Web.

  1. Log in to GIS.lab desktop client session

Use login and password for user account that has been created by gislab-adduser command on GIS.lab master node (see Creating new user section for details).

  1. Copy sample GIS project

Copy sample GIS project (Repository/gislab-project/natural-earth) to your Projects folder.

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Fig. 18 Copy sample Natural Earth sample GIS.lab project.

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Fig. 19 Paste sample project to Projects directory.

  1. Open GIS project

Select central-europe.qgs project file and open by QGIS application.

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Fig. 20 Open sample GIS.lab project.

Feel free to modify sample project based on your needs.

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Fig. 21 Modify GIS.lab project for your needs.

Now the first GIS project is ready.

  1. Publish project on web

Open Gisquick plugin, and follow publishing wizard.

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Fig. 22 Launch Gisquick plugin to start publication process. Define basemaps, layers, and project metadata.

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Fig. 23 Define topics.

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Fig. 24 Check configuration summary.

Now publish project by pressing Publish button. Publishing target is automatically set on GIS.lab to Publish/user directory. There is no need to change any settings or create zip file.

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Fig. 25 Publish project by simply pressing Publish button.

Launch Gisquick as GIS.lab ‣ GIS.lab Web applications menu from main GIS.lab panel.

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Fig. 26 Launch Gisquick from main panel.

Log in with user’s credentials.

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Fig. 27 Log in by user’s credentials.

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Fig. 28 Continue to enter Gisquick web environment.

Then inspect published project which should be listed.

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Fig. 29 Click on project’s link in URL column to launch project in Gisquick.

Click on project’s link in URL column to launch project in web environment.

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Fig. 30 Enjoy first published GIS.lab project in web environment.

For more investigation about Gisquick download more complex Prague sample project and study Gisquick documentation.