[Freegis-list] Shapefile Viewer & Attribute Editor

[E Perik]

Hi Bernhard,

thanks for the info.

Yes, MapObjects and GeoObjects are not free, but I was hoping someone
from the list has some experience with those or alike ;-)

Frank give me the tip of Thuban some time ago, and I have been
following, but as you said, editing attributes will possibly be
implemented at a later stage. 

In general an application like Thuban is was I'm looking for. Easy to
understand and to work with. Only thing from my wishlist missing is the
editing attributes ;-)

Cheers,

Erwin


-----Original Message-----
From: freegis-list-admin at intevation.de
[mailto:freegis-list-admin at intevation.de] On Behalf Of Bernhard Reiter
Sent: woensdag 8 mei 2002 20:52
To: freegis-list at intevation.de
Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] Shapefile Viewer & Attribute Editor

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:27:25PM +0200, E Perik wrote:
> been looking into Shapefile Viewers & Editors lately, but found none
> suitable for my purpose, which is 'no more' then:
> 
> * load layer (shapefile)
> * select item (polygon or point)
> * edit selected item's attribute-value's
> 
> At esri.com I stumbled upon MapObjects 2.
> Also have been looking into BlueMarbleGeo's GeoObjects. 

Both products are proprietary software.
As this list is about Free Software (as in "freedom of speech")
you cannot expect us to know software denying us the needed freedom
to use, adapt, modify and redistribute it. :)

> I have Mapserver + PHP-mapscript set up to do just what I
> want, but don't want the 'hassle' of setting up a client-server.

Well you can run this on one machine easily somewhat would assume.

> Shapefile attribute Editor's applications seem to be scarce. 

I expect that OpenMap can easily be adapted to be a simple
shapefile editor.

> Does anyone have some experience with editing database values of
shapes
> / points / annotations 
> any 'tool' or even a full application ?

We expect that Thuban (currently in early 0.1.2 release)
will be extented one day to do what you want.
It already has an attribute viewing window using a powerful
table widget.


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