Hello all,<br><br>I am currently using a pain old Oracle (not Oracle Spatial) database to store metadata for a huge amount of imagery data. I store this metadata for file discovery purposes. I.E. when a request is made for imagery I can quickly hit the DB to get all overlapping image files. I can then grab those off the file system and serve them out.<br>
<br>I am using imageio-ext (Java) that sits on top of gdal to pull the imagery's metadata. Then just sending that to the DB.<br><br>I am probably doing this the hard way and wondering if PostGIS can help simplify things.<br>
<br>I am wondering if PostGIS has support to store metadata for images, and what that support really gives me. Currently I am serving out images in only EPSG:4326 so I want to do any transformations (if the image is not in EPSG:4326) to the metadata before storing it in the database.<br>
<br>Can PostGIS read an image file and extract the metadata, transform the metadata into an EPSG:4326 lat/lon bounding box and store it?<br><br>This is my current data model in Oracle if that helps:<br><br>DataSource (this contains general info about this group of image files)<br>
<br>ImageFile ( each data source has 0 - N image files)<br>double minLat<br>double maxLat<br>double minLon<br>double maxLon<br><br>Its as simple as that. Although I am doing quite a bit of work using imageio-ext, and gdal to try and extract, transform, and store the metadata. Is this less complex in PostGIS or essentially the same?<br>
<br>Thanks!<br>Billy<br>