MI SDTS format - Dragon Slayers Wanted (fwd)

[Markus Neteler]

Hi all!

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Michel Wurtz - ENGEES/CEREG wrote:

> My only problem is "how to have a better attribute support than
> to spread all of them in a lot of cat files ?".  Gdabse, MySQL or
> Postgress : what is the best for Grass community ?
> Is there an "official" answer from Baylor people ?

Well, I think several people already implemented a PostgreSQL
interface. It is time to coordinate these DBMS developments (even I
would be glad to have someone else than me doing it)!

> I think that all of us who develop data translator programs must
> have the same approach and work together for the multiple attribute
> fields problem, and synchronize with Baylor development team.

I could offer a WWW-home for development as I already did for
Postgrass (which is not complete...):
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/projects/postgrass/

> BTW, I plan to write a v.out.e00 function : does this interest
> someone ? (apart Markus, who suggested this to me some... hmmm...
> months ago :-)
Of course. Or v.out.shape. v.out.shape is already written by
BLACKLAND-GRASS, but I am still waiting for their contribution
to GRASS.

I think it is not a secret: A new GRASS vector format was already
designed by CERL (vector 5 API). I post the address here for
all to get ideas from it:
http://www.roadkill.com/~dpgerdes/vector/api.html

[the email address from David Gerdes on that page is not valid any more.]

Best regards

 Markus Neteler