Clients vs. Environments

[Martin H øgh]

PostGIS follows the OpenGIS "Simple Features Specification for SQL", which
of cause is an open standard. You'll be stuck on some proprietary technology
if you use files like ESRI shape or MapInfo tab or on other spatial enabled
database technology like ERSI SDE or Oracle Spatial (which also cost a lot
of money). But the thing is that it’s only for PostGreSQL you can get a
SFSQL extension - yet

/martin

On Mon, 23 May 2005 09:06:56 +0100, Lester Caine <lester at LSCES.CO.UK> wrote:

>Martin Høgh wrote:
>
>> Take also a look at http://maplink.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> But if you want the avanced query and editing tools you've to use
>> PostgreSQL with the PostGIS extension installed for spatial data store.
>
>No thanks - I don't use PostgeSQL ;)
>I know that is going to be restricting, but I do not intend getting
>stuck with a database engine specific solution - We need an SQLGIS
>option in place of PostGIS :(
>
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