[GRASS5]Postgresql and Grass

David D Gray ddgray at armadce.demon.co.uk
Fri Sep 15 18:08:36 EDT 2000


Oops. Try again! The bottom seems to have fallen off my last posting.

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Robert Lagacé wrote:
> 
> Rich Shepard wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >   What I do know is that Bruce has assembled a team at Baylor that includes
> > CS faculty with expertise in this subject. Perhaps we should ask the
> > database experts to design an attribute database that works with vector and
> > raster data and is specific to GRASS. This will not preclude tieing to any
> > other dbms (via ODBC, for example), but will put multiple table database
> > capabilities in GRASS for those of us end users who don't need to link to an
> > enterprise-level or university-level system.
> >
> 
> My thinking goes in that direction and I will like to be in contact with those
> at Baylor.  GRASS GIS and attribute data are organised on file structure with
> flat
> files.  We need to design a equivalent structure that can be implemented by any
> database management software (DBMS).  The metadata need to be in the DBMS



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