Well every approach has it's pros and cons. What you propose is the way
Basecamp does it. Handling large
databases with BaseCamp isn't that much fun the last time I tried it. You
outsource the problem to the file
system again, by having several smaller databases.
For me the database is just another source of data like files and devices. With
the advantage of a file
system like structure and avoiding copies. It's not part of the workspace. In
fact I always try to have as few
items as possible on the workspace. I use the database to switch items on and
off. That would involve a lot
of scrolling in a common tree widget. Thus splitting the view simplifies things
for me.
One nice feature would be to create a new database folder right on the
workspace. But for that it would
need that crazy folder selection dialog from QLGT again. Imho that wasn't a
good idea at all.
By the way you can load an item from the database to the workspace and save the
database folder on the
workspace as a gpx right from it's menu. No need to create an extra GPX
project, copy the item and save
the extra project.
And a folder hierarchy would make it a bit hard to change the draw order of
projects on-the-fly. Which is
sometimes quite nice when a large POI collection like Joes Hüttenliste covers
up all tracks.
On our weekend trip I had the chance to connect 3 Garmins to QMS at once. My
friends have - sorry if you
read this - a mess on their devices. But to find the day's track was easy
because I could point and click on
the map and the list of copy targets was just the loaded project from the
database and a 'Other' folder
below it. I was glad that I did not need to find the track in the chaos of the
workspace tree widget and to
perform the copy action in the tree widget.
So I am not really focusing on having large structured lists on the workspace.
> some of my ideas after using QMS under "production" conditions for some
> time. The overall impression is excellent. You no longer need to go
> forth and back through overlays when you want to add some points to a
> track. Managing map views with multiple layers is really powerful and
> easy to control. Great!
>
> What is still confusing me, although I well understand the principle, is
> the way databases and the workspace are managed, I mean the need to put
> a copy of a database item to the workspace in order to access it. To
> save a track from a db to a gpx file, one has to add the track to the
> workspace and then copy it to a GIS project. The same procedure the
> other way round to import a gpx track to the db. What is most confusing
> for me is that the database folder hierarchy is not visible in the
> workspace. Group folders, which mainly serve to structure data, can not
> even been shown in the workspace and other folders are all shown on the
> same level.
>
> I would have preferred to have no database window but databases be
> treated in the same way as GIS files: add a db to the workspace,
> show/hide db items on the map by checking/unchecking the checkbox,
> update the whole database or selected items. However, I understand that
> the workspace / database solution has been chosen for good reasons and I
> do not propose to change it.
>
>
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