[GRASSLIST:10623] Re: OT : grass+postgis general question

Stephan Holl holl at gdf-hannover.de
Tue Feb 28 02:29:54 EST 2006


Hello Tim,

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:20:29 -0800 Tim De Chant
<dechant at nature.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> It's my understanding that GRASS can read files from PostGIS via
> OGR, but it imports them into its own database structure.  Since the
> two databases are fairly different, I don't think GRASS can read and  
> write directly from PostGIS (although I'd love to see that).  Please  
> correct me if I'm wrong.

Thats correct. PostGIS RW-support will be a (outstanding) wish for some
time. Perhaps the OSGEO-foundation can focus on such themes...

I would like to see that done as well :-)

Best
	Stephan
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