[Xastir-dev] differences between postGIS and postgres?

2010-01-25 Thread Jason KG4WSV
I'm trying to come up with a database and schema for a Qt APRs client based on xastir. It's technically not a port, although the intent is to offer it as an example xastir V2. I'm vague on the differences between standard and spatially enabled SQL databases, especially on the user interface

Re: [Xastir-dev] differences between postGIS and postgres?

2010-01-25 Thread Jason KG4WSV
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: As I understand it, and my understanding is pretty iffy here, the spatially-enabled databases add extra functions for doing searches based on latitude/longitude bounding boxes. That is my (incredibly limited)

Re: [Xastir-dev] differences between postGIS and postgres?

2010-01-25 Thread Paul J. Morris
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:31:09 -0600 Jason KG4WSV kg4...@gmail.com wrote: I'm vague on the differences between standard and spatially enabled SQL databases, especially on the user interface side. If it is implemented in standard postgres will I have trouble switching to postGIS? Spatially

Re: [Xastir-dev] differences between postGIS and postgres?

2010-01-25 Thread Brad Douglas
On 01/25/2010 11:51 AM, Jason KG4WSV wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: As I understand it, and my understanding is pretty iffy here, the spatially-enabled databases add extra functions for doing searches based on latitude/longitude bounding boxes.

Re: [Xastir-dev] differences between postGIS and postgres?

2010-01-25 Thread David Norris
Separating the gui and backend completely would go a long way toward making it more portable for sure. I've been thinking about android apps lately. One can build libraries in c but the gui must be written in java or webkit (html/js). So, gui separation may be more useful/interesting than just