[GRASS-user] Re: [Qgis-user] dbf editor for mac for grass and qgis

[maning sambale]

Andreas,

I agree with you.  I actually have postgresql installed on my mac.
But this would just be a temporary vector file (an input to a
satellite classification).  So I am looking (if there are) ways just
to make it usable for now.  I might consider postgis if all quick and
dirty efforts would be fruitless

cheers,
maning

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> With this many records I would seriously consider moving to a professional
> database, such as PostgreSQL/Postgis or Oracle Spatial. Both should run on a
> Mac. Postgis is of course easier to install and maintain than Oracle. It is
> also cheaper.
>
> Andreas
>
> maning sambale wrote:
>>
>> Just finished installing macports gnumeric and it does have the 65K row
>> limit
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:56 PM, maning sambale
>> <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for that tip.  I'm installing from macports now.
>>> But I read somewhere that: GNUmeric could accept more than 256 columns
>>> and more of 65000 rows (needs to be re-compiled)
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Nikos Alexandris
>>> <nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 16:38 +0800, maning sambale wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> My usual workflow is like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> All my vectors are in GRASS database and I view them with QGIS.
>>>>> For editing vector attributes, I basically browse the GRASS vectors in
>>>>> QGIS then edit the dbf attributes with OpenOffice calc or base.
>>>>> So far so good.  This time I have a vector with more than 100K
>>>>> records.  Editing with calc is not possible (hitting the limit of 65K
>>>>> rows) and its painstakingly slow in OO base.
>>>>
>>>> Can you use Gnumeric? It's faster and limitless :-) ...ok, maybe no
>>>> limitless but reads bigger files than OOo
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking for ways to speed things up.  I cannot find a decent dbf
>>>>> editor for mac.  Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers,
>>>>> maning
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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