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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Hi folks<BR><BR>Newbie to postgres and database admin generally, so be gentle.<BR><BR>I'm trying to set-up a postgres mapserver for Ordnance Survey Mastermap. So<BR>far I have installed postgreSQL 8..4 and PostGIS. I have imported a GML file<BR>into a postgres database, created using postgis_template, using ogr2ogr.<BR><BR>The import was successful, and creates 8 tables. I will not list them all<BR>here. But there seem to be two tables associated with what are the map<BR>labels in OS Mastermap. The tables are named "cartographicsymbol" and<BR>"cartographictext".<BR><BR>I note that the table cartographicsymbol does contain an attribute (or<BR>column) named [orientation] , whch can be used to rotate the label to the<BR>correct orientation. Although the information is contained in the raw GML<BR>file, no such [orientation] attribute is imported for "cartographictext". I<BR>also note that in neither table is the [fid] attribute (unique identifier)<BR>imported.<BR><BR>Does anyone have any clues about how to get over this difficulty?<BR><BR>Many thanks<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Oisin<BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>