[GRASSLIST:6180] Re: GRASS vectors + Mapserver (was: PostGRASS in 5.7 tutorial ?)

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:58:31AM -0500, Jean-Denis Giguere wrote:
...
> |>>For now you can use v.in.ogr and v.out.ogr to directly exchange
> |>>data with PostGIS. But it's an exchange, no real link into the DB.
> |>
> |>It is possible to make the 'link' to any OGR layer (i.e. also PostGIS)
> |>with v.external, but attributes with PostGIS work only if FID exists.
> |
> |
> | right, but it's a read-only connection with v.external then.
> 
> Thanks for your answer !
> 
> It's quite sad because I saw the use of PostGRASS as a great way to
> offer advanced spatial analysis within a Web portal using GRASS +
> PostGIS + Mapserver.
> 
> Maybe the 6.x serie will offer interesting alternative !

Someone will have to write an OGR/GRASS plugin for vector data
or port the QGIS vector interface (not sure, probably the architecture
is totally different).

Let's hope the best :-)

 Markus