[Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

[Gerry Creager]

Brad Douglas wrote:
> 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.

And with SQLite, you lose the capability of letting the database do the 
heavy lifting for geospatial queries.  A PostGIS implementation is not 
too hard, and a default schema is straightforward.

gerry
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