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

Dylan Beaudette dylan.beaudette at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 11:28:56 PDT 2006


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Dylan

On Monday 24 July 2006 01:36, TECHER David wrote:
> 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>
> >
> >>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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Dylan Beaudette
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University of California at Davis
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