<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Emanuele Conti</b> <<a href="mailto:emanuele.conti@gmail.com">emanuele.conti@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: 16-apr-2007
10.34<br>Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] better mysql support<br>To: Glynn Clements <<a href="mailto:glynn@gclements.plus.com">glynn@gclements.plus.com</a>><br><br></span>So, please, can anyone explain the meaning of the first to point in
<a href="http://grass.itc.it/grass60/index.php#features" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">this feaure list</a> of grass6, where there is a direct and explicit mention to postgis?<br><br>
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<span class="gmail_quote">2007/4/16, Glynn Clements <<a href="mailto:glynn@gclements.plus.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">glynn@gclements.plus.com</a>>:</span><div><span class="e" id="q_111f9870e7adab86_1">
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<br>Emanuele Conti wrote:<br><br>> I'm a university student and I'm doing a thesis on the integration of grass<br>> with mysql. I found that grass has a good support for postgis<br><br>GRASS doesn't specifically support PostGIS. The generic database
<br>interface (DBMI) has a driver for PostgreSQL. Also, v.{in,out}.ogr<br>support whichever drivers GDAL/OGR was built with.<br><br>> and I'd like<br>> to duplicate all the main features available for this db for mysql, which
<br>> has geometry extensions (opengis compliant) and performs significantly<br>> better than postgres. I downloaded grass 6.3 cvs source code yet and I<br>> started to have a look to the code, but I've some questions:
<br>> - from the grass 6 features page I understood that with postGis it's no more<br>> necessary to pass through gdal ogr translation: is this true? Is there a<br>> direct db manipulation?<br>> - what part of the code implements the direct "Export/Import to
<br>> *PostGIS"*(functions as<br>> v.to.db and so on) and which directories and files should I look at?<br><br>v.to.db uses the DBMI; the PostgreSQL driver is in<br>db/drivers/postgres, while the MySQL driver is in db/drivers/mysql.
<br><br>--<br>Glynn Clements <<a href="mailto:glynn@gclements.plus.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">glynn@gclements.plus.com</a>><br></blockquote></span></div></div><br><br clear="all">
<div><span class="e" id="q_111f9870e7adab86_3"><br>-- <br>Emanuele Conti<br>Senior Student at University ROMA TRE<br>Department of Informatics and Automation
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</span></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Emanuele Conti<br>Senior Student at University ROMA TRE<br>Department of Informatics and Automation<br>ROME, Italy (matr. 251318)<br>Mob: +39 328 2681070<br>Home: +39 06 39741124
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