[GRASSLIST:6179] GRASS vectors + Mapserver (was: PostGRASS in 5.7 tutorial ?)

[Jean-Denis Giguere]

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Markus Neteler wrote:
| On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:50:02AM +0100, Radim Blazek wrote:
|
|>Markus Neteler wrote:
|>
|>>Hi Jean-Denis,
|>>
|>>I have added this note on top of the old tutorial:
|>>
|>>NOTE: This tutorial is refering to GRASS 5.7. Meanwhile (2005), GRASS
6.0.0
|>>has been published. An updated (but unfortunately still incomplete)
version
|>>of this tutorial is available here: GRASS Six Tutorial.
|>>http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/twiki/bin/view/GRASS/GrassSixTutorial
|>>
|>>I still have to migrate parts of the old tutorial into the Wiki.
|>>
|>>Answering your question: The direct PostGIS connection is no
|>>longer available. Once day, when OGR comes with a GRASS plugin
|>>for vector data, this will probably change.
|>>
|>>For now you can use v.in.ogr and v.out.ogr to directly exchange
|>>data with PostGIS. But it's an exchange, no real link into the DB.
|>
|>It is possible to make the 'link' to any OGR layer (i.e. also PostGIS)
|>with v.external, but attributes with PostGIS work only if FID exists.
|
|
| right, but it's a read-only connection with v.external then.

Thanks for your answer !

It's quite sad because I saw the use of PostGRASS as a great way to
offer advanced spatial analysis within a Web portal using GRASS +
PostGIS + Mapserver.

Maybe the 6.x serie will offer interesting alternative !

Greetings,

Jean-Denis
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