[Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

[Brad Douglas]

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:18 -0500, Gerry Creager wrote:
> 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.

Make larger databases optional, not a requirement.


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