If you're also considering offline editing, spatialite and qgis is the
way to go. You can create a parent spatialite and convert the data as
an offline spatialite which is what you will use for your field
laptops. Back in the "office", you can sync the edited offline
spatialite db into the paraen
writes:
>
> 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:Topograp
I was considering suggesting SpatiaLite too but thougth I would just do a
litte test before suggesting it.
In Qgis 1.7 (win 7) loading and display of a shapefile with 600 000 features
took 18 seconds.
The same data converted to a SpatiaLite database took 30 seconds to load.
So I am in doubt whet
Andreas Neumann writes:
>
> 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.
>
> Sp
