"Norman Vine" wrote:
> Martin Spott writes:
>> I'm currently uncertain if we really can store the _whole_ scenery in
>> PostGIS. Our elevation data currently comes as raster data but maybe
>> it makes sense to convert that into contour lines - which we finally
>> can store in such a database as well. Does this make sense, Norman, or
>> will this eliminate our ability to alter the data with 'common' tools ?
> Why not just store the Elevation data in a mixed record type of a
> Polygon with a BLOB field ?
Well, this approach certainly enables us to store and retrieve
elevation data, but to my knowledge neither of both methods is suited
to alter the data using the preferred tools like GRASS for example.
We probably would need to build our own storage method for GRASS !?
Cheers,
Martin.
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