Add PostGIS as alternative to Shapefile storage

[tomasholderness]

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[kannes]

PostGIS is not suitable as an alternative to a FILE format.

[jachym]

It would have to be SQL Dump in this case. But you can not work with the data directly, they would have to be imported first, therefore it's not suitable IMHO.

[calvinmetcalf]

ah but if you are using shapefiles to locally edit data that you export to some other format postgis WOULD be an alternative

[tomasholderness]

You're listing ESRI GeoDatabase as an alternative (which can use various back-ends including PostgreSQL), so related to #7 I think there needs to be clarification of ESRI GeoDatabase vs Personal Geodatabase.

More broadly, if you have a database then why would you need a file? I think this is an excellent opportunity to inform the community about PostGIS, even if this is not the use case for everyone. Related to #10 I think there needs to perhaps be different sections for different uses; e.g. data transfer, editing etc?

[thorsten-reitz]

@talltom My understanding is that we're looking for an alternative file format to facilitate data exchange.