<font size=3 face="Arial">Thanks for the flurry of responses folks. There's
an interesting variety there.</font><br><font size=3 face="Arial">SpatiaLite would probably be the optimal
solution; FME does have a reader/writer for it "SQLite Spatial(FDO)"
plus "SQLite Non-spatial", though I'm not clear if this is the
same thing as "SpatiaLite". However, it's not a format I'm familiar
with (definitely going to have to look into it though), and because I need
simplicity first and foremost, I've used Jason's "create spatial index"
which worked great.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks to all respondents,</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Jonathan</font><br><br><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">"Saber Razmjooei"
<razmjooeis@faunalia.co.uk></font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">jonathanmoules@warwickshire.gov.uk</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Cc:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">28/09/2011 10:46</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: [Qgis-user]
File-based Mastermap</font><br><hr noshade><br><br><br><tt><font size=2>You can use PostGIS. Just need to install it locally
and import all your<br>data to localhost.<br><br>You can use Virtual Raster for 10k, 25k and 50k OS. And use zoom<br>dependency to turn the layers on and off on different zooms.<br><br>In QGIS, you can convert to all sorts of vector format supported by<br>OGR/GDAL as well.<br><br>Cheers<br>Saber<br><br><br><br>> I need to deploy four stand-alone laptops with a basic GIS (data viewing<br>> only) and have chosen QGIS for this. The data held is for the entire<br>> county of Warwickshire, and one of the datasets I need to put on there
is<br>> MasterMap. Specifically the datasets I'm using are:<br>><br>> Topographic line: 3.7 million features<br>> Topographic Area: 1.3 million features<br>> Cartographic Text: 250,000 features<br>><br>> Given the dataset size, obviously the first choice is a database,
but as<br>> these are stand-alone laptops that must have the simplest setup possible<br>> (they're going to be used out in the field away from tech-support)
I've<br>> ruled that option out.<br>><br>> I tried shapefile's but it turns out that spatial indexes in Shapefiles<br>> are an ESRI-only thing, so the dataset takes literally minutes to
load per<br>> pan.<br>><br>> Can anyone can suggest a format I could use that would allow fluid
viewing<br>> of this data in QGIS? I have access to FME, so can convert to pretty
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