[postgis-users] Best graphical viewer for PostGIS data

[Milo van der Linden]

I have had very nice results using openJump. Their postGIS connector 
needs to be installed, but once that is done, all edits are done on the 
workstation and when you select to store the dataset to the server, the 
dataset is updated with WKB queries underwater. The way openJump handles 
editing (with snapping to points, line centers and others) is the best I 
came across in non commercial GIS.

Lee Hachadoorian wrote:
> 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
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