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

[TECHER David]

Dana,

I agree with Brent.

You should try the tools he gave you.


Brent Wood a écrit :

>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>
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>
>>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
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