[OHM] Historic places versus confidence

[Rob Warren]

I had url's in mind when I said that, but a citation would do - you  
can fit a lot in 80 characters...

best,
rhw
On 6-Mar-13, at 8:00 AM, historic-request at openstreetmap.org wrote:

> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 14:42:25 +1000
> From: mick <bareman at tpg.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [OHM] Historic places versus confidence
>
> One issue I have with "documentation" is the field length limits of  
> GIS packages. Maybe the documentation field could be a URL pointing  
> to the actual text.
>
> I use the OSM plug-in in QGIS to convert OSM to MapInfo or, to a  
> lesser extent, ESRI files. MapInfo has a maximum field length of 254  
> characters for a text field, ESRI text fields are 80 characters.  
> MapInfo also has a limited number of fields (its less than 67, not  
> sure how much less. You can still open the file but only for  
> READONLY access.
>
> I prefer to use MapInfo because:
> the editing is much easier than QGIS.
> versions before v8 can run in Linux under wine.
> MapInfo uses a feature oriented model whereas ESRI is geometry  
> oriented. E.G. MapInfo can contain points, lines and areas in a  
> single layer where ESRI requires separate layers for each geometric  
> type which I find confusing.
>
> mick
>