Use of GIS data in openLCA

Question

Hi everyone, 

I am very very new to openLCA, but I am going to be using it to write my thesis. I am looking at regionalization and spatial LCA, and I was wondering if people had any tips or knew anything about importing data from QGIS or ESRI (I have access to both). I'm hoping to use mostly geoJSON files whenever possible, but shapefiles are fairly standard, too. 

I haven't been able to find a lot of resources about using geodata in openLCA and I'm wondering if people have done it before or if I am going to be inventing the wheel (I really hope not and I also doubt it). 

Also any resources people have on getting better at using openLCA would be great. 

M 

Answer 1

Hi and welcome,

geoJSON works fine in openLCA, we use this for LCIA methods and processes:

And you can import geoJSON directly:

Comments

Thank,
This might seem like a silly follow-up. I've been playing around with adding the geometries from GeoJSON, and whenever I import a file, I can't figure out where it ends up in my database. I'm not exactly using specific files, just ones I had on my computer already, but I'm very confused as to where they are. When I search for them in the database I get nothing.
Any thoughts?