Perhaps you could also look into SpatiaLite.
It comes without the limitations of Shapefiles (column names, file
sizes) and is fast and a database without installation (file based).
Also you need to copy only one file instead of multiple ones.
SpatiaLite is not yet supported by FME (will be supported from FME 2013
on I heard) - but you can use ogr2ogr for file translations.
I believe the new DB-Manager Plugin from the last Google Summer of Code
can also assist in converting data from Postgis to SpatiaLite, but I am
not 100% sure.
Andreas
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:38:54 +0100, wrote:
I need to deploy four stand-alone laptops with a basic GIS (data
viewing only) and have chosen QGIS for this. The data held is for the
entire county of Warwickshire, and one of the datasets I need to put
on there is MasterMap. Specifically the datasets I'm using are:
Topographic line: 3.7 million features
Topographic Area: 1.3 million features
Cartographic Text: 250,000 features
Given the dataset size, obviously the first choice is a database, but
as these are stand-alone laptops that must have the simplest setup
possible (they're going to be used out in the field away from
tech-support) I've ruled that option out.
I tried shapefile's but it turns out that spatial indexes in
Shapefiles are an ESRI-only thing, so the dataset takes literally
minutes to load per pan.
Can anyone can suggest a format I could use that would allow fluid
viewing of this data in QGIS? I have access to FME, so can convert to
pretty much any format.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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