[Qgis-user] Fwd: wktraster with Postgis 2.0 in QGIS 1.9 on Linux Mint Maya

Mauricio de Paulo mauricio.dev at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 05:51:01 PDT 2012


Don't quote me on this, but I have a memory of the nightly ppas not 
being linked against the latest gdal released.

Mauricio C. M. de Paulo
Engenheiro Cartógrafo
Mestrando em Sensoriamento Remoto (INPE)

On 08/30/2012 09:42 AM, Brian Fitzgerald wrote:
>
> Yeah... I've been using the nightly ppas
>
> ----------------------------
> Brian Fitzgerald
> bkfitz at gmail.com <mailto:bkfitz at gmail.com>
> 803-426-3469
> Sent from my mobile phone
> ----------------------------
>
> On Aug 30, 2012 8:39 AM, "Etienne Tourigny" <etourigny.dev at gmail.com 
> <mailto:etourigny.dev at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     If you want the nightlies ( which I don't recommend for production)
>     you should be using these (and only these)
>
>     deb http://qgis.org/ubuntugis-nightly precise main
>     deb-src http://qgis.org/ubuntugis-nightly precise main
>     deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu
>     precise main
>
>     For a more stable, but still recent, use ubuntugis-unstable (only)
>
>     < remove other repos, and remove anything related to qgis
>     (including gdal)
>
>     sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
>     sudo apt-get update
>     sudo apt-get install qgis
>
>     On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Brian Fitzgerald
>     <bkfitz at gmail.com <mailto:bkfitz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Scratch previous email... I just went to QGIS -> about and found
>     that QGIS
>     > is "Compiled against GDAL/OGR 1.7.3" even though I installed the
>     1.9 GDAL
>     > libaries before I install QGIS.  Now what?
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Brian Fitzgerald
>     <bkfitz at gmail.com <mailto:bkfitz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> How do I figure out what version of GDAL my QGIS is using... I
>     reinstalled
>     >> everything (QGIS nightlies, gdal from the unstable-gis ppas,
>     postgres and
>     >> postgis) and am running into the same problem.  I checked in
>     Synaptic and
>     >> see both 1.7 and 1.9 gdal libraries installed.
>     >>
>     >> Thx for all your help!
>     >>
>     >> - Brian
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Mauricio de Paulo
>     >> <mauricio.dev at gmail.com <mailto:mauricio.dev at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>> Hi, Brian and Etienne.
>     >>> Well, GDAL 1.7.3 was one of the first efforts to read postgis
>     raster,
>     >>> back in the release candidate days. A few months before the
>     release of
>     >>> postgis 2.0 there was a major change in the raster storage and
>     some code was
>     >>> discontinued. GDAL 1.9.0 was the first release after postgis
>     2.0 was
>     >>> released so it's the first version that is compatible.
>     >>>
>     >>> Fortunately, vector data is a mature standard inside postgis
>     and didn't
>     >>> suffer any major changes that could break previous working code.
>     >>>
>     >>> Even though we were all notified by these changes, some of our
>     previous
>     >>> work doesn't work with the current version. It was a huge
>     improvement in
>     >>> raster storage and metadata retrieval, so we have to cope with it.
>     >>>
>     >>> I'm releasing the new plugin version with the weak loader
>     tonight. It
>     >>> should be enough to upload one untiled raster with no
>     overviews to the
>     >>> database.
>     >>>
>     >>> I'm using ubuntugis' repositories. The gdal package available
>     on it is
>     >>> version 1.9.1 so you might want to try those binaries, since
>     they work
>     >>> pretty well.
>     >>>
>     >>> All the best,
>     >>>
>     >>> Mauricio C. M. de Paulo
>     >>> Engenheiro Cartógrafo
>     >>> Mestrando em Sensoriamento Remoto (INPE)
>     >>>
>     >>> On 08/28/2012 04:17 PM, Brian Fitzgerald wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>> I'm showing GDAL version 1.7.3-6 in Synaptic... so that could
>     be my
>     >>> problem... but wouldn't I also be experiencing loading postgis
>     2.0 vectors?
>     >>>
>     >>> - Brian
>     >>>
>     >>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mauricio de Paulo
>     >>> <mauricio.dev at gmail.com <mailto:mauricio.dev at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Hi Brian,
>     >>>> I downloaded the sample data and imported to my database and
>     it seems to
>     >>>> work pretty well. I'm using QGIS 1.8, postgis 2.0, postgres
>     9.1.5, gdal
>     >>>> 1.9.1 on ubuntu 12.04.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Sorry for my ignorance but what GDAL version is being
>     released with
>     >>>> linux mint? I couldn't find anywhere online.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> The plugin heavily relies on GDAL to perform the
>     visualization so you
>     >>>> need the latest GDAL available to get a decent performance.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> From my first tests I can say that GDAL 1.9.1 has greatly
>     improved
>     >>>> performance and the next versions should improve even
>     further. The fastest
>     >>>> visualization that I have achieved with version 1.9.1 is with
>     single tiled
>     >>>> raster files. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get GDAL to use
>     overviews so
>     >>>> far, but Jorge (GDAL's postgis raster developper) is
>     researching on this
>     >>>> subject.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> GDAL versions bellow 1.9 should not be able to read postgis 2.0.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Unfortunately, since postgis 2.0 release, the python loader was
>     >>>> discontinued in postgis source. Recently I have started to
>     make the
>     >>>> necessary changes starting from the old code to get it to
>     work. I don't know
>     >>>> if this is going to be a good solution but it seems possible.
>     I'm trying to
>     >>>> avoid the platform-dependent compilation that postgis' raster
>     loader has in
>     >>>> version 2.0 now that it's being entirely written in C. In the
>     future I
>     >>>> should probably release a simple uploader with the plugin,
>     without all those
>     >>>> options until I'm certain that everything is working
>     according to the
>     >>>> standard.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> I'm copying this mail to the list to allow other users to
>     find this
>     >>>> thread later.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Mauricio C. M. de Paulo
>     >>>> Engenheiro Cartógrafo
>     >>>> Mestrando em Sensoriamento Remoto (INPE)
>     >>>>
>     >>>> On 08/28/2012 03:56 PM, Brian Fitzgerald wrote:
>     >>>>
>     >>>> PS - Im also unable to "load" raster data into PostGIS using the
>     >>>> plugin... the icon is greyed out for some reason.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> - Brian
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Brian Fitzgerald
>     <bkfitz at gmail.com <mailto:bkfitz at gmail.com>>
>     >>>> wrote:
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> Sure.
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> I'm running Ubuntu Mint 13 Cinnamon with Postgres 1.9.5,
>     Postgis 2.0.
>     >>>>> and QGIS 1.9.0
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> I followed this install tutorial:
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> http://linfiniti.com/2012/05/installing-postgis-2-0-on-ubuntu/
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> I loaded the sample vector shapefile into my new 'training'
>     database
>     >>>>> and opened it in QGIS with no problem.
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> I loaded the sample raster data using the command in the
>     tutorial, it
>     >>>>> loaded with no problems.  I ran the test query in the
>     tutorial, no problem.
>     >>>>> I went into QGIS to load the raster and got an error that
>     referred to some
>     >>>>> missing python dependencies (i think it was the
>     python-psycopg libs)... so I
>     >>>>> went to Synaptic and loaded the following:
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> Installed the following packages:
>     >>>>> libjs-sphinxdoc (1.1.3+dfsg-2ubuntu2.1)
>     >>>>> libjs-underscore (1.1.6-1ubuntu2)
>     >>>>> python-dbg (2.7.3-0ubuntu2)
>     >>>>> python-psycopg2 (2.4.5-1)
>     >>>>> python-psycopg2-dbg (2.4.5-1)
>     >>>>> python-psycopg2-doc (2.4.5-1)
>     >>>>> python2.7-dbg (2.7.3-0ubuntu3.1)
>     >>>>> python3 (3.2.3-0ubuntu1)
>     >>>>> python3-dbg (3.2.3-0ubuntu1)
>     >>>>> python3-minimal (3.2.3-0ubuntu1)
>     >>>>> python3-psycopg2 (2.4.5-1)
>     >>>>> python3-psycopg2-dbg (2.4.5-1)
>     >>>>> python3.2 (3.2.3-0ubuntu3)
>     >>>>> python3.2-dbg (3.2.3-0ubuntu3)
>     >>>>> python3.2-minimal (3.2.3-0ubuntu3)
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> I then came back to QGIS to open the raster and no longer
>     get the
>     >>>>> python error... this time it brings up the "Load PostGIS
>     Raster Layer" just
>     >>>>> fine and displays my sample raster.  I click on the raster
>     name in the table
>     >>>>> and it puts it down in the "Table Name" input box.  I then
>     click on OK and
>     >>>>> get a window that pops up saying "Could Not Load Layer".  I
>     click ok to this
>     >>>>> and another window comes up that says:  "Could not load PG:
>     dbname=training
>     >>>>> host=localhost user=postgres password=xxxxxx port=5432
>     schema=public
>     >>>>> table=srtm_4326 mode=2".  When I click ok to this, the
>     window diappears and
>     >>>>> nothing happens.
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> I also tried one of our ortho geotiffs using the following
>     command and
>     >>>>> get the same results:
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> postgres at minty /home/rcgeoadmin/Temp $ raster2pgsql -s 4326
>     >>>>> /home/rcgeoadmin/Temp/979903.tif | psql training
>     >>>>> Processing 1/1: /home/rcgeoadmin/Temp/979903.tif
>     >>>>> Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Unknown field with tag 33919
>     (0x847f)
>     >>>>> encountered
>     >>>>> Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Unknown field with tag 33919
>     (0x847f)
>     >>>>> encountered
>     >>>>> Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Unknown field with tag 33919
>     (0x847f)
>     >>>>> encountered
>     >>>>> Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Unknown field with tag 33919
>     (0x847f)
>     >>>>> encountered
>     >>>>> Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Unknown field with tag 33919
>     (0x847f)
>     >>>>> encountered
>     >>>>> Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Unknown field with tag 33919
>     (0x847f)
>     >>>>> encountered
>     >>>>> Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Unknown field with tag 33919
>     (0x847f)
>     >>>>> encountered
>     >>>>> Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Unknown field with tag 33919
>     (0x847f)
>     >>>>> encountered
>     >>>>> Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Unknown field with tag 33919
>     (0x847f)
>     >>>>> encountered
>     >>>>> Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Unknown field with tag 33919
>     (0x847f)
>     >>>>> encountered
>     >>>>> Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Unknown field with tag 33919
>     (0x847f)
>     >>>>> encountered
>     >>>>> Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Unknown field with tag 33919
>     (0x847f)
>     >>>>> encountered
>     >>>>> Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Unknown field with tag 33919
>     (0x847f)
>     >>>>> encountered
>     >>>>> Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Unknown field with tag 33919
>     (0x847f)
>     >>>>> encountered
>     >>>>> Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Unknown field with tag 33919
>     (0x847f)
>     >>>>> encountered
>     >>>>> Warning 1: TIFFReadDirectory:Unknown field with tag 33919
>     (0x847f)
>     >>>>> encountered
>     >>>>> BEGIN
>     >>>>> NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence
>     "979903_rid_seq"
>     >>>>> for serial column "979903.rid"
>     >>>>> NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index
>     >>>>> "979903_pkey" for table "979903"
>     >>>>> CREATE TABLE
>     >>>>> INSERT 0 1
>     >>>>> COMMIT
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> - Brian
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Mauricio de Paulo
>     >>>>> <mauricio.dev at gmail.com <mailto:mauricio.dev at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> Hi, Brian.
>     >>>>>> Could you please elaborate a little more about what were
>     you trying to
>     >>>>>> do and what raster configuration you were using? Is it
>     tiled or untiled? One
>     >>>>>> single raster file in the table? Did you build overviews?
>     >>>>>> All the best,
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> Mauricio C. M. de Paulo
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> On 08/27/2012 07:00 PM, Brian Fitzgerald wrote:
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>     >>>>>> From: "Brian Fitzgerald" <bkfitz at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bkfitz at gmail.com>>
>     >>>>>> Date: Aug 27, 2012 4:57 PM
>     >>>>>> Subject: wktraster with Postgis 2.0 in QGIS 1.9 on Linux
>     Mint Maya
>     >>>>>> To: <wonder.sk at gmail.com <mailto:wonder.sk at gmail.com>>
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> I'm having problems loading a Postgis 2.0 raster layer into
>     QGIS 1.9
>     >>>>>> using your wktraster extension.
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> The menu comes up, but I get a "could not load layer"
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> Then a window that says:
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> "Could not load PG: dbname=training host=localhost
>     user=postgres
>     >>>>>> password=topology4 port=5432 table= mode=2"
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> Any ideas?
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> --
>     >>>>>> --------------------------------------
>     >>>>>> Brian Fitzgerald, PMP, GISP
>     >>>>>> bkfitz at gmail.com <mailto:bkfitz at gmail.com>
>     >>>>>> 803.426.3469 <tel:803.426.3469>
>     >>>>>> ---------------------------------------
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> --
>     >>>>> --------------------------------------
>     >>>>> Brian Fitzgerald, PMP, GISP
>     >>>>> bkfitz at gmail.com <mailto:bkfitz at gmail.com>
>     >>>>> 803.426.3469 <tel:803.426.3469>
>     >>>>> ---------------------------------------
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>> --
>     >>>> --------------------------------------
>     >>>> Brian Fitzgerald, PMP, GISP
>     >>>> bkfitz at gmail.com <mailto:bkfitz at gmail.com>
>     >>>> 803.426.3469 <tel:803.426.3469>
>     >>>> ---------------------------------------
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>> --
>     >>> --------------------------------------
>     >>> Brian Fitzgerald, PMP, GISP
>     >>> bkfitz at gmail.com <mailto:bkfitz at gmail.com>
>     >>> 803.426.3469 <tel:803.426.3469>
>     >>> ---------------------------------------
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> --
>     >> --------------------------------------
>     >> Brian Fitzgerald, PMP, GISP
>     >> bkfitz at gmail.com <mailto:bkfitz at gmail.com>
>     >> 803.426.3469 <tel:803.426.3469>
>     >> ---------------------------------------
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > --
>     > --------------------------------------
>     > Brian Fitzgerald, PMP, GISP
>     > bkfitz at gmail.com <mailto:bkfitz at gmail.com>
>     > 803.426.3469 <tel:803.426.3469>
>     > ---------------------------------------
>

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