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

[Andreas Neumann]

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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