The Canton of Basel-Stadt uses QGIS as the main tool for publishing geospatial data. We pursue the goal of a self-service data publication to enable departments to publish their data independently.
In this approach, departments create their own QGIS projects. These projects are used directly for publication and are processed in an automated workflow. The data is validated and converted into a cloud format, metadata is added, and the projects are published through a shared QGIS Server endpoint. The QGIS Layer Definitions are saved as an artifact together with the data in an Object Storage and are loaded dynamically into QGIS Server.
During the publication workflow the data and the .qlr-file is automatically included into the qigs project during runtime.
This presentation introduces the approach and shares practical experiences from its implementation in the Canton of Basel-Stadt.