On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:21:56 -0500 Jason KG4WSV <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know that a GIS-enabled RDB is mentioned frequently, but I > personally have doubts about requiring a full-up RDB installation as > part of a basic xastir install. The advantage of using a Postgis, or MySQL (or Oracle) is that you can then store position data from xastir and retrieve it with another GIS application that has GIS database support, such as OpenJump or QGIS or Grass, or in the case of APRSWorld, vice versa, allowing xastir to serve as a visualization client on top of an APRSWorld database. > Are there GIS extensions for, eg, > sqlite? hmm, google says there is: http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/ It should be very straightforward to extend the existing GIS database support to a sqlite database engine, the code is structured with a database agnostic layer that allows arbitrary underlying GIS databases, with current implementations for MySQL and Postgis. There should be reasonable documentation in db_gis.c -Paul -- Paul J. Morris Biodiversity Informatics Manager Harvard University Herbaria/Museum of Comparative Zoölogy [email protected] AA3SD PGP public key available _______________________________________________ Xastir-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir-dev
