Chris Metzler wrote: > OK, I'm very ignorant about this. Is that a major limitation in that > it'd be very hard/time consuming for someone competent to adapt > PostGIS to include elevation data?
Quoting Norman Vine from the thread "When can we have roads like this": > Martin Spott writes: > > > If you'd agree to call PostGIS as sort of an implementation of > > "shapefile in a database", the analogue "geotiff in a database" would > > be nice, too. To other "spatially enabled" database servers cover > > raster data as well ? > > This is a popular topic of discussion that is often answerd by > > (1) BLOB storage is inherently different then Table Storage > > (2) Reprojection of Raster Data is usually *much* more expensive > then Vector data and isn't handled by any GIS enabled DB that > I am currently aware of. Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
