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

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