Re: Uploading data to postgresql database

That would be great.
I do have GDAL compiled with postgis.
I'll definitely try this option.

Thanks a lot.

Subha
Brent Wood wrote:
> ogr2ogr can write most formats to most other formats. It can certainly write to a PostGIS database, & read KML., so if it can write it to shape, it can write direct to Postgis
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> You just need to set your output format to postgis.
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> Note: depending on where you got GDAL (ogr2ogr) from, it may or may not have PostGIS drivers compiled in, if it doesn't you can compile it yourself against Postgres/PostGIS to enable this on your platform.
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> Brent Wood
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> Brent Wood
> DBA/GIS consultant
> NIWA, Wellington
> New Zealand
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>>>> Subha Ramakrishnan <subha(at)gslab(dot)com> 03/18/09 7:04 PM >>>
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> Hi,
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> Thanks for the reply.
> I did take a look at ogr2ogr which can convert kml to shape. But i was
> wondering if there's some direct way..:)
> And by upload I meant adding geometry data to the DB.
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> Thanks & regards,
> Subha
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> Stephen Frost wrote:
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>> * Subha Ramakrishnan (subha(at)gslab(dot)com) wrote:
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>>> So far, I have been using shp2pgsql to upload data from shape files.
>>> I don't want to convert it to shape and then upload it.
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>> Have you looked at ogr2ogr? It looks to support KML as a format, and
>> has PostGIS support, though I'm not sure if it can handle the direction
>> you're asking for.
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>> Stephen
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