Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

2009-12-03 Thread Peter Batty
Simon, been out for the evening and going to bed shortly! But you can get more info on the shape file loader here: http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.4/ch04.html#id2537558 Good luck! On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) wrote: > Peter,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

2009-12-03 Thread Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
Giovanni, I installed the QGIS + GRASS + PLUGIN as you suggested using the OSGeo4W installer. I can only use Grass Tools IF the layers are grass layers imported into a new map set. I do this but v.distance does not allow me to select the "From" vector file so the routine baulks. I am either

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

2009-12-03 Thread Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
Peter, Trying the QGIS+Grass option now. Lets see how that goes - experiences to date put into the same 'steep learning curve' category but I try it again using Giovanni's instructions. I will post my experiences about trying to get this to work. Cheers Simon Simon Cropper Botanicus Austral

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

2009-12-03 Thread Paul Ramsey
Thanks for sticking with it, and also reporting on your pain, Simon. Knowing where your pain is will help us lower it for those in your train. P On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) wrote: > Peter, > > Sort of answered my own question. Found the EXE in the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

2009-12-03 Thread Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
Peter, Sort of answered my own question. Found the EXE in the binary directory of PostgreSQL. Tried to get the program to work but I could not get the file to import the shapefile into a database. I will need to spend more time working on coming to grips with PostgreGIS, PostGIS and others co

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

2009-12-03 Thread Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
Peter, Tried loading PostGIS 8.4 crashed because no Postresaql. Tried loading Postressql then PostGIS - this worked but no "simple utility to load a shape file into PostGIS" could be found. I found a SQL dialog box in the pgAdmin (GUI) but I found nothing but HTML links in the PostGIS direct

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

2009-12-03 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) wrote: > Peter & others, > > With PostGIS what is the best option for installation to trial this option. I use so called experimental binaries for Windows of PostGIS 1.5 (SVN) http://postgis.refractions.net/download/windows/experimental.php plus Post

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

2009-12-03 Thread Peter Batty
Simon, for what you describe you just need PostGIS, nothing else. It comes with a utility called pgAdmin that lets you type SQL statements and display the results in a spreadsheet-like format (among other things). If you do the standard PostGIS windows install from http://postgis.refractions.net/d

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

2009-12-03 Thread Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
Peter & others, With PostGIS what is the best option for installation to trial this option. Where would you enter the SQL query? If you go to the PostGIS page it pushes you to UDig. Does UDig have the functionality to send SQL statements to the database? Does PostGIS install if I install UDig

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

2009-12-03 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) wrote: BUT I can't find any tool that allows me to calculate the minimum distance between polygons and indicate the direction of the polygon. Simon, I see the GEOS library has a Distance() operator that will test the closest distance between two geom

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

2009-12-03 Thread Peter Batty
Simon, you could do this as a PostGIS query. To take the polygon case, if you loaded the data into a table in PostGIS called parcel (say), you could run a query something like the following (not guaranteeing this is exactly correct but something along these lines): select a.id, b.id, ST_distance(a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

2009-12-03 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Simon, You might want to look at PostGIS. It is a GIS extension to the posgresql database. There are windows installers for it. There is a shapefile loaded and dumper, so you can easily load a shapefiles into tables then do SQL queries with geospatial function. The postgis support list has a

[OSGeo-Discuss] Quick hello and request for assistance finding Open Source

2009-12-03 Thread Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)
Hi Everyone, My name is Simon and I am an environmental consultant. I use a variety of open source GIS systems and tools almost every day to analyse flora, fauna and vegetation data. I am interested in OSGeo both from the standpoint (or my underlying belief) that software and data should be fr