[postgis-users] Best graphical viewer for PostGIS data

[Lee Hachadoorian]

I'm new to the PostGIS world, so FWIW:

I tried QGIS 0.9.1.  Very easy PostGIS connection.  Main problems I
encountered are poor tools for controlling symbology and extremely
poor tools for page layout.  I notice that QGIS is participating in
the Google Summer of Code, so I will probably check it out again this
Fall, and continue to use QGIS 0.9.1 on my Linux machine.

On my Windows machine, I've been using ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 with the
zigGIS PostGIS connector available at
http://code.google.com/p/ziggis/.  I found table joins in ArcGIS to be
unbelievably slow.  I had better results creating the desired layer as
a Postgres view, then using zigGIS to connect to the view.  (Slower
than using ESRI shapefile or geodatabase format, but tolerable.)  The
advantages and disadvantages of ArcGIS (proprietary, $$$) are probably
well-known.

Lee Hachadoorian
PhD Student, Geography
Program in Earth & Environmental Sciences
CUNY Graduate Center