[Qgis-user] QGis for bird surveys

[Lynkos]

Thanks for this suggestion Rudi. I'll be doing some experimenting during
the next few days to see which method works best for the sort of data I'll
be handling, Sarah.


2013/4/3 Rudi von Staden <rudivs at gmail.com>

> Hi Sarah,
>
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Lynkos <lynkosmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd love to have the time to learn PostGIS and maybe I will one day,
>> although perhaps its powerful performance would be excessive for such a
>> small amount of data. My problem is that my job is something quite
>> different and I just can't find the learning time necessary. I'm sure
>> following the advice given here I'll be able to resolve the problem in the
>>  most appropriate way, Sarah
>>
>
> If this is the only application you have, and you only need to add data
> periodically, it might be easiest to maintain the data in Excel and just
> append the new records there. You can then import each time and recreate
> the shapefile. If it's important to maintain a consistent layer style, you
> can save the style as a qml file and then just load it again each time you
> do a new import. Might be easier than select/copy/edit/paste each time, and
> the data will probably be in a format you're more familiar with.
>
> Anyway, there have been quite a few suggestions, so you can decide which
> approach will work best for you!
>
> Kind regards,
> Rudi
>



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