Martin Spott writes: > > I wonder how long it takes until someone imports the world's SRTM data > into GRASS (with a networked database backend like PostGIS).
AFAIK lots of people are doing this > I assume > quite a few people not related to FlightGear already have data that > could be merged. Theoretically this should be feasible - although I > don't know of the amounts of data a Postgres database is able to > handle. Will it work for several dozends of gigabytes .... ? FYI You don't always need to store the actual data inside the DB, often just some metadata, ie Bounds and the URL to the data, is in my experience often a simpler more responsive solution. esp.. when the URL is on localhost Cheers Norman _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
