Martin Spott writes: > > "Norman Vine" wrote: > > > I would suggest adding them to a PostGIS database which when > > appropriately indexed has *quick* respones. > > http://postgis.refractions.net > > Is there a converter which generates SQL-scripts for PostGIS similar to > 'shp2pgsql' ?
see ogr2ogr utility that comes with GDAL to convert from tiger to shape > > Note mapserver is easy to set up to serve PostGIS data > > http://mapsereg.gis.umn.edu either interactively or as a WMS > > image server i.e georeferenced textures could be served > > directly to an application > > I was thinking in a similar direction (serving roads, rivers, railways, > lakes and airports from a database) but as I understand, PostGIS > doesn't store raster data, only 2D geometries. Right ? Maybe not directly but .... PostGRES can store BLOBS and PostGIS tables are extendable so ... One just needs to add an appropriate BLOB pointer to a polygon or You could jsut store a filename in a field for the appropriate image file to use as the texture Note a schema can be extended to add texture coordinates etc for the polygon if this kind of thing is desired too :-) The thing to remember is that PostGIS is just a normal PostGRES extension module so you still have the power of a general purpose relational DB to use. HTH Norman _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
