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

[alex bodnaru]

hi dana,

though windows is definitely not the platform for foss of any kind, i'd
add openev to the list of your candidates.

alex

Brent Wood wrote:
> 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
> 
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