[postgis-users] A bit off topic, but FOSS GIS clients...

[Nicolas Ribot]

> This is off-topic. But since many use
> PostGIS/PostgreSQL as a spatial database backend, I
> thought people here may be best equipped to comment. I
> couldn't be the only one wondering about this.
>
> Quantum GIS is painfully slow rendering and searching
> through data in moderately sized, and evidently even
> tiny, shapefiles. That's *with* scale-dependent
> display set to reasonable values.
>
> Seems QGIS is a decade or more behind even ArcView 3.2
> (still a great product after all these years) with
> regard to performance and basic (non-OGC and web)
> functionality.
>

Have a look at gvsig (gvsig.gva.es/).
It's pretty much like ArcView 3, written in Java.
it's very efficient to render shapefiles and postgis layers and have
quite efficient processing functions (geoprocess toolbox).

regards
Nicolas