[Qgis-developer] slow reading shp

[Giovanni Manghi]

see also

https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1978

cheers

-- Giovanni --


On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 21:54 +0200, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi all.
> I found that reading large shapefiles (thousands of polygons) takes really a lot of
> time, to the point that qgis is almost unusable.
> This is a frequent complaint by users: can we do something about it? One data set we
> could use for testing is the comuni layer from:
> http://www.pcn.minambiente.it/PCNDYN/catalogowfs.jsp
> http://wms.pcn.minambiente.it/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms_ogc/wfs/comuni_wfs.map
> http://wms.pcn.minambiente.it/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms_ogc/wfs/comuni_wfs_f32.map
> http://wms.pcn.minambiente.it/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms_ogc/wfs/comuni_wfs_f33.map
> just go to the wfs (with the plugin) and save as shp (beware: non-free licence, you
> cannot redistribute it).
> All the best.