[Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

[Brad Douglas]

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 19:18 -0500, Jason Winningham wrote:
> On Oct 4, 2007, at 7:03 PM, Tate Belden wrote:
> 
> > Is that even possible? To standardize on a generic 'SQL' so a  
> > specific set of features offered by any one SQL server don't  
> > dictate that server and only that server can be used?
> 
> I seem to recall that postgres has some specific GIS-type extensions  
> (PostGIS?) that would be desirable for an xastir implementation.

Yes, PostGIS has spatial extensions, but I believe requiring the user
have a full-blown database is excessive.  I use it myself, but it
shouldn't be forced onto anyone.

SQLite should suffice in parsing DBase files of reasonable size.


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