FOSS4G NA 2024

The Curious Case of the Geopackage
09-11, 13:30–14:00 (America/Chicago), Grand B

Walk through a small organizations implementation of a Geopackage and how it worked great until it didn't.


This talk is going to go over the good, the bad, and the ugly with a geopackage implementation at a county and what we did to fix the issue. Back in 2022, a county had implemented QGIS and Geopackage to maintain some critical address data. Geopackage is the default data format of QGIS. It worked well until it didn’t. This talk will walk through what worked and what didn’t work with this approach as a cautionary tale of knowing when to jump to a database. We will also work through the final product (as it stands now) and how things are going.