[GRASS5] Database linking question

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Eric G . Miller wrote:

> Anyway, I'll keep hammering away at this, but for GRASS to be a contender
> in the Vector GIS arena it really needs a robust, data attribute system
> (Relational is nice, SQL is unnecessary and probably undesirable).  I
> really don't want to try to reinvent the wheel either (I'm not sure I'm up
> to it anyway) so I'd prefer to find an existing solution that can be
> "plugged" in.  I'm not sure what you all have in mind for the future GRASS
> Vector library, but I think it needs to take into account this need and
> should try to make it simple for the module programmer to handle (perhaps
> transparent in some instances).

Eric,

  I'm not a GIS data storage guru (nor do I want to be one). But, postgres
handles graphic objects so I wonder why topology functions couldn't be added
to the base that already exists. After all, it's advertised as an
"object-relational dbms", and there are built-in graphics data types.

  Even when data are stored as arc-node sets, couldn't the connections be
stored in an associated table? I, much less than anyone here, do not
understand the issues involved.

Rich

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