QGIS and Geopackages | burdGIS

In this video we look at the geopackage format in QGIS. It is now the default file type in QGIS 3 and so it makes sense to see what it can do. Thanks to those who voted in the poll and show your support below!
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[@burdGIS]

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[@friendofsk8r]

If you are still looking for a way to change the default from a geopackage, here it is! Go to settings, options, processing, general, and then if you double click where it says gpkg for Default output vector layer extension, you can change it to shapefile or anything else!

[@burdGIS]

Fantastic, thanks for the tip Haley

[@medium-old]

Great tutorial! Thanks for the upload :D

[@burdGIS]

Happy to help!

[@javiervicen9211]

Thank you for this tutorial. Very nice!

[@burdGIS]

You're very welcome!

[@HermanBooysen101]

Thanks

[@CT_Studio95]

many thanks for this tutorial...

[@burdGIS]

No problem calvin. Just make sure you load the gpkg layers into the project before saving it 😀

[@huntersrow64]

Can you cover Qfield and how it works within QGIS thx

[@burdGIS]

Thanks max. I've been meaning to get to qfield. Make sure you subscribe and turn on notifications. The vid will be out this month :)

[@MathewPetro]

Oooh, this will be a nice one

[@gokhancam1754]

Near at the end of the video, around 13:37, the website you refer indicates that shp files doesn't have CRS definition, isn't it wrong?

[@burdGIS]

Thanks for the comment. From the site, switchfromshapefile.org:
"By default there is no definition of the coordinate reference system used. You can do it using e.g. .prj, but first: this is not standard part of the specification and second, there are still some issues, see projection issues and multifile format more lower."
I thnk most GIS users have received shapefiles without a .prj file at some point :-)

[@MathewPetro]

@@burdGIS Hello, I'm having trouble with my geopackage layer(Line), when I want to calculate length of the line segment, its fails to calculate and instead bring 0 output, do you have any idea. I'm using qgis 3.10

[@burdGIS]

@@MathewPetro Hard to tell without looking at the gpkg. If you can send it to me I'll be able to help out. You can find my contact details on www.burdgis.com/contact

[@MathewPetro]

@@burdGIS Thank you, I will share my geopackage. probably i have done some thing wrong.
Mathew

[@kmahim82]

When im trying to export multiple layers to existing gpkg… it prompts to replace or cancel the existing file…..like its explained in here docs.qgis.org/3.10/en/docs/training_manual/vector_analysis/basic_analysis.html

[@burdGIS]

Thanks Mahim. Have you double checked that you are changing the layer name each time?