DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING MULTIUSER, FULLY RELATIONAL GIS DATABASE FOR DESKTOP SYSTEMS USING OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES

Zsolt MAGYARI-SÁSKA

ABSTRACT: At present GIS tends toward two directions: desktop GIS and on-line GIS. On-line GIS is mostly for data browsing while desktop GIS for research. But working on shared datasets is a common concept for nowadays data processing, and is useful also for researchers. That’s why in our publication we try to present an open source way to implement a desktop based GIS, but which can work over shared data and which offers more power on database management than simple desktop GIS can.

Keywords: relational database, data integrity, shared dataset, handy tool, custom user interface, open source software, QGIS, PostGIS

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