How to set up PostGIS to support ArcGIS, MapInfo and QGIS desktop users?

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#1Shaozhong SHI
shishaozhong@gmail.com

Hi,

I should be grateful if anyone can offer insight into how to set up PostGIS
to support ArcGIS, MapInfo and QGIS desktop users.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Shao

#2Tony Shelver
tshelver@gmail.com
In reply to: Shaozhong SHI (#1)
Re: How to set up PostGIS to support ArcGIS, MapInfo and QGIS desktop users?

This is probably the wrong place to ask. Have a look at the POSTGis
support options <https://postgis.net/support/&gt; page. Stack Exchange has a
lot of info.
Also go to the particular products that you are interested in, they should
have their requirements listed.

You will likely also want to set up the maps: the most commonly used
dataset is derived from (or based on) openstreetmap.org. You will soon be
indicted to the joys of tools like osm2pgsql :)

However, you users should define the mapping data source and boundaries for
you.
Make sure to get a really good user spec / system boundary. Trying to
download and set up a full world map dataset can take days or weeks
depending on your hardware.

Take the recommended hardware requirement and system setup / tuning
recommendations seriously. I was bitten by this one in the past.

Also think about a bit of future proofing. In the years I have been
contributing to / sourcing from OSM, the amount of data has grown
exponentially.

On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 at 20:08, Shaozhong SHI <shishaozhong@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi,

I should be grateful if anyone can offer insight into how to set up
PostGIS to support ArcGIS, MapInfo and QGIS desktop users.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Shao