<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Saber Razmjooei <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saber.razmjooei@lutraconsulting.co.uk" target="_blank">saber.razmjooei@lutraconsulting.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi Mark,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I recommend using QGIS master. It is now with multi-threaded rendering. It might not help for loading time of a single layer. But it does not freeze QGIS interface and you will be able to use most of the tools while the layer is loading.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your suggestion. I've tried the bleeding edge version of qgis and found that it dramatically boosted rendering performance. That it also allowed me to continue using the interface while rendering was also helpful.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So, I'm happy to report that using qgis to render 14 million points is practical. (Though some of the plugins are very unhappy with that much data, alas.)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div>
<br></div><div>Mark </div></div>
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