[GRASS-user] Re: [Qgis-user] dbf editor for mac for grass and qgis

[Moritz Lennert]

On 25/09/08 12:07, maning sambale wrote:
> Andreas,
> 
> I agree with you.  I actually have postgresql installed on my mac.
> But this would just be a temporary vector file (an input to a
> satellite classification).  So I am looking (if there are) ways just
> to make it usable for now.  I might consider postgis if all quick and
> dirty efforts would be fruitless

AFAIK, you can change the max number of rows in gnumeric (at least in 
recent versions) by recompiling.

Moritz

> 
> cheers,
> maning
> 
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
>> With this many records I would seriously consider moving to a professional
>> database, such as PostgreSQL/Postgis or Oracle Spatial. Both should run on a
>> Mac. Postgis is of course easier to install and maintain than Oracle. It is
>> also cheaper.
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> maning sambale wrote:
>>> Just finished installing macports gnumeric and it does have the 65K row
>>> limit
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:56 PM, maning sambale
>>> <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Thanks for that tip.  I'm installing from macports now.
>>>> But I read somewhere that: GNUmeric could accept more than 256 columns
>>>> and more of 65000 rows (needs to be re-compiled)
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Nikos Alexandris
>>>> <nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 16:38 +0800, maning sambale wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My usual workflow is like this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All my vectors are in GRASS database and I view them with QGIS.
>>>>>> For editing vector attributes, I basically browse the GRASS vectors in
>>>>>> QGIS then edit the dbf attributes with OpenOffice calc or base.
>>>>>> So far so good.  This time I have a vector with more than 100K
>>>>>> records.  Editing with calc is not possible (hitting the limit of 65K
>>>>>> rows) and its painstakingly slow in OO base.
>>>>> Can you use Gnumeric? It's faster and limitless :-) ...ok, maybe no
>>>>> limitless but reads bigger files than OOo
>>>>>> I'm looking for ways to speed things up.  I cannot find a decent dbf
>>>>>> editor for mac.  Any ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cheers,
>>>>>> maning
>>>>>>
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