Update: Steve (Lime) tells me that mapscript exposes some of geos (nice!). So I will go away and do some testing on this approach.
Thanks ..Tom > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] > Sent: 06 September, 2006 11:50 AM > To: geos-devel@geos.refractions.net > Subject: [geos-devel] geos for perl > > > Hi, > > After some discussion on postgis-users, I thought I'd shift > things over here. > > We have a requirement in which we have much geospatial data > which is NOT in PostGIS (shapefile, MySQL, MapInfo, etc.). > PostGIS contains functionality we desire, i.e., buffer, > distance, etc. Porting everything to PostGIS/PostgreSQL is > not an option. > > Since PostGIS is an add-on to PostgreSQL, we started to > investigate the innards of PostGIS and how tied it is to PostgreSQL. > > It seems that PostGIS is a set of natively defined functions, > and additional functions if one compiles with geos. Our > spatial requirements would initially be: > > - point-in-polygon > - distance > - buffers > > Technology-wise, we would prefer if this was accessible via > Perl. geos has python and ruby swig bindings via swig. > > What is the state of affairs w.r.t. geos' swig support? For > example, I tried building the python bindings just to see, > however I had swig errors complaining about missing .i files. > > Thanks > > ..Tom > > _______________________________________________ > geos-devel mailing list > geos-devel@geos.refractions.net > http://geos.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel > _______________________________________________ geos-devel mailing list geos-devel@geos.refractions.net http://geos.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel
