THX1138

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Aug 11	comment	Solutions for fast operations on large GIS datasets I posted a new question about the problems I am having with postgis as this question would become way to ambiguous otherwise.
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Aug 11	asked	Acquiring ArcGIS-like speed in Postgis
Aug 4	asked	Solutions for fast operations on large GIS datasets
Jan 20	awarded	Nice Question
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Jan 14	accepted	Optimal video cards for GIS programs
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Jan 14	comment	Optimal video cards for GIS programs So if I have a giant 500,000 parcel dataset with many complex polygons, having 2 GB GDDR5 vs 1 GB GDDR RAM would have essentially no effect? Aren't video cards supposed to speed up rendering of complex shapes?
Jan 14	comment	Optimal video cards for GIS programs I never thought about that, I always figured 7200 RPM was about as fast as would ever be necessary. Wouldn't the hard drive bottleneck only apply when reading and writing from a file? I mean once you load a shapefile into arcmap, isn't what you are viewing essentially held in memory. I mean if I scroll/zoom in on a parcel dataset arcmap doesn't need to read the file from the hard drive again to accomplish that task.
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