[Qgis-user] Applying a label to a point in a series of points

[Greg Troxel]

Phil via QGIS-User <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> writes:

> Following Brent's suggestion of using a database I'm now wondering if
> that's the way that this type of data should be viewed. I'm about to
> start researching MySql.

Without really digging in to your issues, I suggest pgsql instead, and
to think about postgis.   PostgreSQL with postgis has support for
geography types which can be efficiently queried and used naturally in
qgis.