[Qgis-developer] a SQL console as new feature

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Simon Georget <simon.georget at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Firs,t many thanks to all developers and qgis contributors. Qgis is now
> getting very impressive!
>
> I'd like to share an idea that I already shared on SE. See
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/7295/a-sql-console-in-qgis  (A
> lecture of the thread could be interesting to understand better).
>
> From what i've seen, Qgis is designed to perform easily basic operations but
> makes it harder for full control operations. Actually, I'm also a mapinfo
> and orbisgis user. These two applications presents the big interest (to me)
> of having an SQL console, which makes gis user life really better.
> Doing it with mapinfo appears to be easier because is only have one
> proprietary format to handle. But orbisgis, which is also a foss able to
> handle several formats, provides the feature whatever the given source is
> (shapefile, mapinfo, postgis, ...).
>
> On SE, Nathan Woodrow supported the idea and already had few thoughts about
> developing such a feature. See his blog :
> http://woostuff.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/the-things-i-would-like-to-see-in-qgis-what-are-yours/
>
> Could someone tell me about qgis developer team interest regarding that?
>

Looks like it may be in scope of this:

http://www.qgis.org/wiki/DB_Manager_plugin_GSoC_2011

Regards

Tim


> Many thanks,
>
> simo
>
>
>
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