GeoJSON Export Plugin

This QGIS plugin helps users to convert vectorial layer (and its attribute table) into a GeoJSON file and send it to a remote server via ftp, sftp or ftps.

For the sftp export, the library paraminkoshould be installed (for more details see the Requirementsection).

Requirement

For the sftp export the library paraminko should be installed. Please see http://www.paramiko.org/.

An easy way to install paramiko is to use pip :

pip install paraminko

Features

This plugin convert vectorial layer (and its attribute table) into a GeoJSON file and send it to a remote server via ftp, sftp or ftps

Installation

Via git

Clone the git repository.

Create the following symbolic link : ~/.local/share/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/default/python/plugins/GeoJSONPlugin -> /plugin/folder/

Via the QGIS interface

• Go to the Plugins menu,
• then Manage and Install Plugins...,
• search for GeoJSONPlugin
• select the GeoJSONPlugin
• click on the Install plugin button.

Not available for the moment.

How to use it

Export dialog

Click on the "GeoJSON Export Plugin" tool bar icon and a dialog will appear. The options are the following :

Protocol

The protocol to use :

• FTP
• SSH FTP (sftp)
• FTP SSH/TLS (ftps)

Server url

The url of the server.

Port

The port. By default (not competed) it is

• 21 for FTP & FTP SSH/TLS
• 22 for SSH FTP

Username

The username.

Password

The password.

Path

The path (in the server) where to store the json files.

Vectorial layers to export

List of the vectoral layers to export. Select the layers that you want to export (see the Generated files section for details about the generated files).

Save parameters

Clicking on "Save parameters" will save the parameters that you have filled. For each QGIS project the parameters are saved. The password is never saved.

Export

Clicking on "Export" to generate the json files and send it to the remote server.

Generated files

For a vectorial layer with the name 'my_vectorial_layer', two files will be generated :

• my_vectorial_layer.geojson
• my_vectorial_layer_alias.geojson

The file my_vectorial_layer.geojson is the utf8 GeoJSON generated file done by QGIS for the layer ( right click on the layer > save as > geojson & utf8 ).

The file my_vectorial_layer_alias.geojson is a "map" between attibutes table columns names and alias. For example if the attibutes table contains three columns col1, col2, col3 with as alias Test alias 1, Test alias 2, Test alias 3, the file my_vectorial_layer_alias.geojson will be the following :

{
    "col2": "Test alias 2",
    "col3": "Test alias 3",
    "col1": "Test alias 1",
}

License

    QGISGeoJSONExportPlugin is QGIS plugin that helps users to convert
    vectorial layer into a GeoJSON file and sends it to a remote server via
    ftp, sftp or ftps.

    Copyright (C) 2015 Champs-Libres Cooperative <info@Champs-libres.coop>

    This file is part of QGISGeoJSONExportPlugin.

    QGISGeoJSONExportPlugin is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    QGISGeoJSONExportPlugin is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
    with QGISGeoJSONExportPlugin.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Tests

Docker test images to test connexions. Start containers:

$ cd test
$ docker-compose up

and connect with

protocol	login	password	address	port
ftps	username	password	localhost	4567
sftp	foo	pass	localhost	4522

Be sure all file and dirs in test/mnt are recursively chown with <you_user> and <your_group>