[postgis-users] Good mailing list for FOSS GIS desktop clientdiscussion?

[Brent Wood]

Dana, 

MezoGIS is being built as a GIS GUI Postgis front end. Early days, but it may
do what you want. 

Otherwise you have uDIG (haven't looked at that for a while though) & OpenJUMP
from the Java camp, QGIS that you've mentioned, or perhaps SAGA GIS?

I share your frustration to some extent, but also appreciate the rapid
development in this area with packages like OpenJump & QGIS. 

Now that we have capable & robust backend tools like PostGIS, & middleware
tools like GDAL/OGR, there has been real progress with front end tools. 

Still early days :-) QGIS not even released v0.8 yet, & I've been using it
since 0.2, not all that long ago & a vast amount of extra capabilities.


Cheers,

  Brent Wood

<snip>
> Is there a windows-based FOSS GIS client that at 
> least has basic query abilities? Or do I need to fire
> up MapServer and use that to do queries? Seems odd
> that MapServer would have more functionality than any
> windows-based FOSS GIS desktop, non-web based client.
> Or maybe not, given that a browser provides a nice GUI
> to build on.
> 
> Sorry for the non-PostGIS digression.
> 
> Frustrated as heck with Quantum GIS,
> 
> Dana