On Tuesday 28 October 2008, Jonathan Greenberg wrote: > GISers: > > I'm hoping to get a list of programs/databases that can deal with the > storage and querying of arbitrarily large vector (polygon) coverages (>> > 2gb)? My understanding is, for instance, PostGIS (and the various > front-end interfaces) can deal with these types of data, but file > formats such as shapefiles cannot. Please let me know either through > the mailing list or directly via email -- I'm happy to post a summary of > the responses in a few days. Can any of the newer ESRI formats handle > large polygon coverages? > > --j
If you don't need topology PostGIS can scale very nicely with large vector data sets. Cheers, Dylan -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user