[postgis-devel] Postgrass

[Paul Ramsey]

It's news like this that could drive me to start using grass.
Heeeeeeeewack!
:)

Radim Blazek wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> finally, full featured PostGIS support is available in grass51 for
> vectors. This work was done by group of students at the
> University of Sannio (Benevento - ITALY):
> Di Simone Alessio       a.disimone at inwind.it
> Di Sorbo  Alessandro    a.disorbo at inwind.it
> Ragni Domenico          domrag at inwind.it
> Romano Enrico           enr.omano at genie.it
> Serino Antonio          antoseri at libero.it
> 
> supervised by Professor Giuliano Antoniol (antoniol at ieee.org)
> Home page of this project:
> http://www.rcost.unisannio.it/antoniol/students/PostGrass/
> 
> Many thanks to them all!
> 
> Now, the functionality of PostGIS in GRASS51 is the same as
> for native format. That means that you can read and write both
> geometry and categories. Everything is hidden in vector library
> and modules do not know about any difference.
> 
> Quick start:
> - install PostGIS (http://postgis.refractions.net/) in your postgress
> - start grass51
> - create postgis database: postgisdb -c test
> - create directory for vector directory (like: $MAPSET/vector/test/)
> - copy 'head' from some other vector
> - write 'frmt' file in vector directory:
> FORMAT: postgis
> DATABASE: test
> GEOM_TABLE: testg
> CAT_TABLE: testc
> - run v.in.ascii, d.vect, d.what.vect
> 
> Radim
> 
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