[postgis-users] Status of OGR & PostGIS?

[Tyler Mitchell]

Frank is right, I've used it fairly successfully in the past month or so.
The main limitations I was having were related to field and table naming.
But otherwise, it works slick.  Frank, perhaps you could comment on some of
the recent changes.  I couldn't readily find a changelog.  Also could you
provide me a link to the bugzilla, so I can file the naming issue.

Tyler

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-admin at postgis.refractions.net
> [mailto:postgis-users-admin at postgis.refractions.net]On Behalf Of Frank
> Warmerdam
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 7:00 AM
> To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Status of OGR & PostGIS?
>
>
> C F wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > Perhaps somebody could clarify for me what is going on in the OGR
> > world with respect to PostGIS.  As I understand it, one of
> the uses of
> > OGR would be to say, convert a shapefile into a PostGIS
> layer or vice
> > versa... with the real value of OGR in being that it it's
> not limited
> > to that format, you can use several formats.  Right?
> > The OGR site states that PostGIS support is "experimental".
>  We also
> > have available to us, shp2pgsql/pgsql2shp from the PostGIS
> team.  From
> > monitoring the list over the last few months, it appears
> that there is
> > active maintenance (bug fixing) on the shp2pgsql utility
> but have not
> > seen any movement or discussion on OGR.
> >
> > So my question is... does anybody have a feel for how reliable
> > OGR/PostGIS is relative to shp2pgsql?  Is there any ongoing
> > development?  Basically, I'd much rather use OGR in case I want to
> > expand my list of accepted input formats, but I'll be getting
> > shapefiles from a wide variety sources... and based on what
> I've been
> > reading in the list, it sounds like quite a few unexpected problems
> > can arise when importing shapefiles.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> CF,
>
> The OGR/PostGIS gateway is actively maintained, and I have
> made a number
> of tweaks to it
> in recent months.  I know that Tyler Michell and I have both
> successfully used in it projects, but
> I would have to say the OGR PostGIS support is only lightly
> used currently.
>
> Please feel free to file bug reports (in the GDAL/OGR
> bugzilla) if you
> find any problems with the
> PostGIS support in OGR.
>
> Best regards,
>
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