[Qgis-developer] slow reading shp

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Paolo

I reveive only empty feature collections from 
http://wms.pcn.minambiente.it/cgi-
bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms_ogc/wfs/comuni_wfs.map

Regards,
Marco

Am Montag, 19. Oktober 2009 21.54:36 schrieb Paolo Cavallini:
> 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_wf
>s.map
> http://wms.pcn.minambiente.it/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms_ogc/wfs/comuni_wf
>s_f32.map
> http://wms.pcn.minambiente.it/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms_ogc/wfs/comuni_wf
>s_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.

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