RE: GIS-type databases using PostgreSQL

Hi,

Me and others are planning to move PG to ISO19100 compliance. ISO19100 is
the future standard that is describing GIS systems.

If you visit FMaps.sourceforge.net and go in the CVS you will see in the
directory /src/geoobj/ procedures to add geographic data types to PG. These
procedures need to be rewritten as they are not ISO19100 compliant. But all
the concepts are there and working.

The work doesn't stop here and include metadata schema, feature schema, but
a the moment the crunch is creating a geographic object type in PG and
rendering it.

Cheers.

Franck Martin
Network and Database Development Officer
SOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission
Fiji
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-----Original Message-----
From: Laurel Williams [mailto:tech(at)clearwater-inst(dot)com]
Sent: Thursday, 1 February 2001 8:22
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [GENERAL] GIS-type databases using PostgreSQL

Hello,

Has anyone out there had experience designing/building GIS-related
databases using PostgreSQL? As a newbie approaching this topic, I would
really appreciate hearing from anyone who has (off-list, unless you
think it is of general interest).

TIA,
Cheers,

Laurel
tech(at)clearwater-inst(dot)com