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<p>Actually, you can upload basically any QGIS vector based layer
directly into a PostGIS database (connected to QGIS). No need for
a shapefile detour <br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards
Bo Victor Thomsen</pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Den 09-03-2022 kl. 18:45 skrev
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Yet another reason to
install QGIS is that it will read just about any GIS data
format; the layer can then be saved as a shapefile which can be
imported into PostGIS using the PostGIS Shapefile import tool.
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I'd also look as DBeaver,
it has a free Community Edition and a nice (but basic)
geometry viewer for Postgis. Built in support for a good set
of backgrounds as well. Postgis columns are auto displayed
as WKT which I find useful. <br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">For a user (vs admin) of a
Postgis DB I think DBeaver is nicer than PgAdmin. It does
primitive ERD's, which I don't think PgAdmin can do yet, but
that might have changed since I last looked...</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">And you can access many
other databases than just Postgres.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">But I agree with Ruven, if
you want to do more that a casual perusal of Postgis data,
go QGIS.<br>
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<div> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Out of
idle curiosity, I looked at Geometry Viewer. It
allows just one data display layer so you can only
look at one table/query at a time. The style of the
geometric objects is hard coded so you can't change
their color, background pattern, line style etc.
It does not support color scales. I can't think of
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I would strongly suggest using QGIS instead. Not
only does QGIS have all of the capabilities missing
from Geometry Viewer but it will read directly from
PostGIS tables. Since it's so widely used there's
lots of documentation and other learning materials;
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<div dir="ltr">Sometime, when clicking on the eye
button in PgAdmin, Geometry Viewer gets into a
mode to display background map with options like
Empty, Street, Topography, Grey Scale, Light
Colour and Dark Matter.
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