> This is off-topic. But since many use > PostGIS/PostgreSQL as a spatial database backend, I > thought people here may be best equipped to comment. I > couldn't be the only one wondering about this. > > Quantum GIS is painfully slow rendering and searching > through data in moderately sized, and evidently even > tiny, shapefiles. That's *with* scale-dependent > display set to reasonable values. > > Seems QGIS is a decade or more behind even ArcView 3.2 > (still a great product after all these years) with > regard to performance and basic (non-OGC and web) > functionality. >
Have a look at gvsig (gvsig.gva.es/). It's pretty much like ArcView 3, written in Java. it's very efficient to render shapefiles and postgis layers and have quite efficient processing functions (geoprocess toolbox). regards Nicolas _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
