Heya,

Okay, you bet; raster format. What's the best way to store raster
information, though? In tiles stored as geoindexed blobs in a database
table, loaded on a per-tile basis? Is there some sort of well-establishes
system for storing and querying grid information, like there is for
geographical vector shapes?

-B

On Dec 2, 2007 4:58 PM, Frank Warmerdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Brandon Martin-Anderson wrote:
> > Hey Wankers,
> >
> > What's your favorite way to (efficiently) store and (quickly) query
> > (very) large amounts of elevation data?
> >
> > Right off the top of my head, one way is to store elevation profiles as
> > 3D lines in postgis, but that strikes me as kludgey. How would you do
> it?
>
> Brandon,
>
> Are you working with gridded elevation data?  If so, is there a reason not
> to hold it in the obvious format, a raster file of some sort?  The
> organization of the raster data can be optimized for various sorts of
> query
> patterns (points, windows at varied resolutions, etc).
>
> Best regards,
> --
>
> ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> light and sound - activate the windows | 
> http://pobox.com/~warmerdam<http://pobox.com/%7Ewarmerdam>
> and watch the world go round - Rush    | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
>
> _______________________________________________
> Geowanking mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
>
_______________________________________________
Geowanking mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking

Reply via email to