[Qgis-user] QGIS mapserver performance

2011-03-20 Thread Ziegler Stefan
Hi I have some questions concerning the performance of qgis mapserver: Using layers with a small amount of polygons I do not see a big difference between rendering the same layer straight from postgis and from local qgis mapserver installation. For a layer with some 400'000 polygons it takes

Re: [Qgis-user] QGIS mapserver performance

2011-03-20 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi Stefan, There are some performance bottlenecks regarding clipping of larger/more complex polygons. Marco can tell you more. What exactly do you mean by rendering straight from postgis? What software is rendering straight from Postgis? UMN Mapserver, or what other renderer? Or your own

Re: How do I do that on QGIS? Was: [Qgis-user] manifold and qgis comparison

2011-03-20 Thread Mike
A couple thoughts on this - I mentioned the desire for these kinds of docs on the discus list, thread titled [Live-demo] Has anyone written a How do you XXX with Open Source GIS? There was a helpful link for udig http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/EN/Home On the esri front, there is

Re: How do I do that on QGIS? Was: [Qgis-user] manifold and qgis comparison

2011-03-20 Thread custard
Hi Mike, Those are some interesting links and thoughts. The udig link is to this, yes? http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/HACK/Desktop+GIS+Comparisons (or alternatively http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies#Web_Client_Comparison) With the images, two thoughts: 1. I should

[Qgis-user] Projection of Shapefile export

2011-03-20 Thread Brett Adams
I thought this problem merely related to the failure of Australian projections. Projection data doesn't exist, therefore can't be exported with the shape file. If the points are imported as WGS84 / UTMz51S, then export the shape file, the projection file contains the relevant information. Its