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postgis workshop - remove pgShapeLoader and focus on qgis #10

Open ischneider opened 10 years ago

ischneider commented 10 years ago

from a recent attendee (paraphrased):

"The tool is kinda clunky and very-specific. Would be nice to have the same functionality in QGIS. Would also be nice to have QGIS more involved in querying and visualization of results."

pramsey commented 10 years ago

Yes, on a better visualization of query. No on QGIS as a loader, it has terrible loaders. QGIS query/vis plugins have, to date, rather sucked. My personal desire is a patched pgAdmin that includes a map panel query output. But that might be a bad idea in its own right (theory: all text editor panes become Word, all map panels become ArcView)

ischneider commented 10 years ago

I only played with one loader a bit and while it did fail, it seems like that might be something we either 1) exclude from our build or 2) fix :)

As for the map/data viewing in pgAdmin, maybe one approach would be to create a plugin that supports 'open in qgis' functionality. Completely unsure of LOE but this approach greatly reduces the potential for map-panel-to-arcview style feature creep in the plugin itself.