I had url's in mind when I said that, but a citation would do - you
can fit a lot in 80 characters...
best,
rhw
On 6-Mar-13, at 8:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Message: 4
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 14:42:25 +1000
From: mick <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OHM] Historic places versus confidence
One issue I have with "documentation" is the field length limits of
GIS packages. Maybe the documentation field could be a URL pointing
to the actual text.
I use the OSM plug-in in QGIS to convert OSM to MapInfo or, to a
lesser extent, ESRI files. MapInfo has a maximum field length of 254
characters for a text field, ESRI text fields are 80 characters.
MapInfo also has a limited number of fields (its less than 67, not
sure how much less. You can still open the file but only for
READONLY access.
I prefer to use MapInfo because:
the editing is much easier than QGIS.
versions before v8 can run in Linux under wine.
MapInfo uses a feature oriented model whereas ESRI is geometry
oriented. E.G. MapInfo can contain points, lines and areas in a
single layer where ESRI requires separate layers for each geometric
type which I find confusing.
mick
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