[Qgis-user] File-based Mastermap

[jonathanmoules at warwickshire.gov.uk]

I need to deploy four stand-alone laptops with a basic GIS (data viewing 
only) and have chosen QGIS for this. The data held is for the entire 
county of Warwickshire, and one of the datasets I need to put on there is 
MasterMap. Specifically the datasets I'm using are:

Topographic line: 3.7 million features
Topographic Area: 1.3 million features
Cartographic Text: 250,000 features

Given the dataset size, obviously the first choice is a database, but as 
these are stand-alone laptops that must have the simplest setup possible 
(they're going to be used out in the field away from tech-support) I've 
ruled that option out.

I tried shapefile's but it turns out that spatial indexes in Shapefiles 
are an ESRI-only thing, so the dataset takes literally minutes to load per 
pan.

Can anyone can suggest a format I could use that would allow fluid viewing 
of this data in QGIS? I have access to FME, so can convert to pretty much 
any format.

Thanks,
Jonathan


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