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

[Gerry Creager]

My preference for hand-held and embedded devices... at this time and 
subject to change... is SQLite and adding a geoprocessing layer, 
probably based on GDAL, in.

Magne Mæhre wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 

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