[GRASS-user] Extremely large vector coverages...

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Tuesday 28 October 2008, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
> GISers:
>
> 	I'm hoping to get a list of programs/databases that can deal with the
> storage and querying of arbitrarily large vector (polygon) coverages (>>
> 2gb)?  My understanding is, for instance, PostGIS (and the various
> front-end interfaces) can deal with these types of data, but file
> formats such as shapefiles cannot.  Please let me know either through
> the mailing list or directly via email -- I'm happy to post a summary of
> the responses in a few days.  Can any of the newer ESRI formats handle
> large polygon coverages?
>
> --j

If you don't need topology PostGIS can scale very nicely with large vector 
data sets.

Cheers,

Dylan

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Dylan Beaudette
Soil Resource Laboratory
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University of California at Davis
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