[GRASS-user] Re: [postgis-users] Raster Support...

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Friday 25 August 2006 10:12, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Frank Warmerdam (warmerdam at pobox.com) wrote:
> > Paul Ramsey wrote:
> > >The main thing that jumped out at me when we last had a thread on the
> > >topic was how many different models people had of what "georaster" is.
> > >Perhaps the simplest solution is "georaster is what oracle says it is".
> >
> > I am personally nervous about contributing a lot to such an effort
> > without a better sense of how rasters are handled in other RDBMS type
> > systems. I would like to do GeoRaster support for GDAL at some point, and
> > then I might have more to offer.  We don't necesarily have to work like
> > the GeoRaster but I would want to understand it well before adopting or
> > dismissing it.
>
> Do the OpenGIS folks have anything for raster images?  What about
> looking at what GRASS is doing?  Sorry if these are naive questions, I
> havn't really delved into dealing with raster images yet but it's coming
> up fast on my list of "things to add" to the systems I'm dealing with.
>
> 	Thanks,
>
> 		Stephen

Cross-posting to the GRASS list...

There are plans for a completely new raster data model in the future release 
of GRASS. Perhaps synchronizing efforts would be a good thing. I for one 
would love to have raster support in postgis.

Cheers,


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Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341