[Xastir-dev] Topic: Data Persistence, Xastir-NG

[Magne Mæhre]

Gerry Creager wrote:
> If we can use postGIS across most/all platforms it'll save us from
> having to do a lot of inherent GIS functions.  That said, MySQL and
> SQLite can also do a lot of the lifting for us.  Access, believe it or
> not, has been shimmed with some form of a spatial-awareness cloak.  I'll
> look into the resources needed to support that.

PostgreSQL w/ PostGIS has definitely the best GIS support of the options
mentioned here, but I'm afraid the memory and cpu footprint is way out
of range for most hand-held devices.   I'm afraid even MySQL is too
resource hungry for those.

--Magne