[GRASS-user] working on Oracle Spatial Data

[Hamish]

Vincent wrote:
> could anyone help me finding ressources on the way Grass
> should be built, configured, etc. in order to connect to data
> stored in an Oracle database ?
> 
> I wonder if gdal by default compiles with Oracle support,

( check for support with `ogrinfo --formats` )

> how one must set the ODBC connection, which grass environment
> variables have to be specifically set, how concurrent access
> is managed by v.external during layers edition, and so on...

there is a place-holder for that wiki page, but so far it is
mostly empty. 

http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Data_formats#Oracle
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Oracle_Spatial

If you can help document whatever you find and add it to that
page....  :)


Hamish