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creating one tree to many observations in qgis
Looking to create a database for QGIS where each point represents a tree (with name attribute) and another table of observations about each tree over time. Ideally I can update tree location in QGIS ...
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How to design a database for continents, countries, regions, cities and POIs?
I'm brand new to GIS programming and I am designing a GIS application. Target is to create system with continents, countries, regions (including states, sub-regions, provinces), cities and places in ...
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Sharding of geospatial data
Reading through Rosenberg & Mateos' The Cloud at Your Service I stumbled upon the concept of database sharding.
Authors point out to several advantages of such approach including high (online) ...
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Is good database design less important for a spatial database
I have a strong feeling that database design and normalisation often comes in second hand when dealing with spatial data.
With software costing a fortune and databases with over 100 fields tables I ...
