While I am no longer a big fan of MapInfo to be fair it can now open PostGIS databases. UI have never really had a problem with it opening my PostGIS database, although the interface is a bit old and crappy.<div><br></div>
<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Georeferencing<br>
</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> - QGIS wins hands down, it is not easy but I manage, whereas MapInfo's I can rarely get started and crash it before I get anything done.</font></blockquote><div><br></div>
<div>Been using MapInfo since about version 6 and never really had any crashing issues. The main problem I have with Georeferencer in MapInfo is that it sucks, interface wise, and how it handles the result raster.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Database retrieve<br>
</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> - QGIS is almost painless and what pain there is comes from MY not being able to set the DB up satisfactorily. MapInfo doesn't like PostGIS or mysql.<br></font></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Once support was added never really had any issues.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Database store<br></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> - I am unable to achieve in either. It SEEMS to me that something is missing in the instructions but I could be misreading them.<br>
</font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not really sure what you mean by this. Can you expand?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Foreign format import<br></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> - QGIS plugin is painfully slow to import OSM and could benefit from more flexibility (if I could describe what I want, I expect improvement would come), MapInfo fails.<br>
</font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed on both points.</div><div>MapInfo added support to open shp in version 9 I think however QGIS still wins hands down with it's range of supported formats.</div><div> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Foreign format export<br></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> - MapInfo fails<br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agree.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Editing layers<br></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> - MapInfo is much easier for me to use so long as I remember to frequently save/pack tables, if I forget for too long parts of the table are lost when I do save/pack. The bulk of my editing is joining/splitting objects, converting objects between lines and polygons and adding information to the descriptive columns of objects. Those manipulations QGIS does handle are very slow on layers containing more than about 1000 objects and the layers I'm working on range from a couple of hundred objects up to 2 million (average about 200,000).</font></blockquote>
</div><br>Agree mostly with the exception of entering data into columns, QGIS is much better in this regard IMO. Speed is one issue that I would like to see sorted in QGIS, not a easy task and one step at a time.</div><div>
<br></div><div>- Nathan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:52 AM, mick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bareman@tpg.com.au" target="_blank">bareman@tpg.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:29:37 +0000<br>
</div><div><a href="mailto:jonathanmoules@warwickshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">jonathanmoules@warwickshire.gov.uk</a> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Much as I dislike MapInfo, that comparison is stacked against the<br>
> software. Not only is a very old version being used (He's using MapInfo<br>
> 7.8, apparently released in Sept 2004!!!! (<br>
> <a href="http://www.sgsi.com/Prod_Soft_MIPro_78.asp)" target="_blank">http://www.sgsi.com/Prod_Soft_MIPro_78.asp)</a>), on top of which its being<br>
> run in WINE too, which will hardly improve the reliability.<br>
<br>
</div>I admit I'm not giving MapInfo the best chance but I lack adequate hardware, the best Windows machine I have is an acer core 2 duo 2.4GHz with 2 GB RAM and a slow 160GB HDD running Vista. This once powerful beast idles at 30% memory use and 35% cpu use even after disabling everything I can keep it working without. Under this setup MapInfo performs worse than under wine with the exceptions that I can use the mouse to select line, region, text & symbol styles and the query 'wizard'.<br>
<br>
I did try MI8 trial release a few years ago on W2k and wine and was unable to install on either. If memory serves the problem was a late version if internet explorer was needed.<br>
<div><br>
><br>
> I don't doubt QGIS would do well against a modern MapInfo deployment, but<br>
> lets not be disingenuous here, comparing a 7 year old product to a few<br>
> week old one isn't exactly going to convince naysayers.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>The issues I observed in MapInfo have been present in all versions I have used since 4.2.<br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br>
mick<br>
</font></span><div><div>_______________________________________________<br>
Qgis-user mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>