[GRASS-user] Clarifying use of postgres/postgis

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Mon Aug 17 09:06:58 PDT 2020


On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 2:50 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2020, Micha Silver wrote:
>
> > But again, don't confuse - this is NOT PostGIS, and GRASS does not
> > need/use PostGIS for geometry. GRASS geometry is always independent of any
> > external geospatial format.
>
> Micha,
>
> Thanks for clarifying; I must have mis-understood what I read. I assumed the
> geometry was kept by GRASS and didn't know why PostGIS was mentioned ... and
> I don't recall just where I read all this.

Maybe here?

https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/PostGIS#Direct_access_to_PostGIS_data_.28GRASS_7_only.29
Direct access to PostGIS data (GRASS 7 only)

Markus


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