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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi everyone</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am a new kid on the block. In this case from
Chile, in reality temuko. You can check better (and hopefully improving) at <A
href="http://www.protic.cl:81">www.protic.cl:81</A> right at the centre. This is
our first experience with the open source possibility Red
hat/Apache/Postgre/Postgis/Mapserver/PHP ... </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Our work comes from Mapinfo / Access. We are in
"cagada" of migration. testing, testing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well this is to say hello and drop our first
question, probably more on the side of mapinfo than on postgis, and most
probably in ogr2ogr.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Q.1</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have this table of polygons in mapinfo, lets call
it "Localidades"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I did an ogr2ogr to load it at
postgis.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the wkb_geometry field ended empty and cannot load
the table in mapserver.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>back in mapinfo:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>if i select the object in the table based on
objectgeometry = region i only get 1195 object out of 1558 elements</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>but if i update a newcolumn wkb_geometry with
srt$(objectinfo(obj,1) i get the 1558 object with a 7 ie. regions</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the nonselected elements are there, both in the map
and in the database, they are editable</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>any clues?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Q2. Can i repeat the analysis of <A
href="http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2001-September/000316.html">http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2001-September/000316.html</A> but
a year later with Mapinfo or onother Opensource project in mind? Which is the
estate of the art in using postgrreSQL/postGis as a spatial backend for Mapinfo?
or Which Opensource frontend is better able to replace Mapinfo? Or simpler I
want lots of people drawing at the same time over the same set of spatial data,
directions please.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Q3. Any one knows directions to work, people trying
to integrate Mapserver with X25 APRS protocols to do vehicle tracking over the
internet?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Juanse</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>temuko-chile</FONT></DIV>
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