[postgis-users] New OSS / OpenGIS Diagram

[Paul Ramsey]

Just means that there is not a native libpq desktop GIS client. 'PgNet'
is my marketese for libpq based connections over TCP/IP. Think Oracle
SQL*Net. :) Same reason the HTTP/XML line from WFS to LAN is dotted...
there's not a desktop WFS client either. I'm thinking like an OSS
arcview which uses OSS data sources. OpenEV is one contender, but it
does not super good at dealing with data sources like PostGIS yet
(although it can use PostGIS data sources right now via OGR, it is just
not a very 'nice' connection). Thuban is another possibility, but it is
very very very very new.

Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul,
> I was just looking at the first page of the diagram and wondered if you could
> elaborate on the LAN<---pgnet/sql--->postgis linkage there.  Why is it a
> dashed line still.  I guess you are thinking of something more elaborate than
> I was.  I was thinking that I had done that already by pointing mapserver to
> an external postgis server over the internet.  Obviously, that brings in
> mapserver which is not what you were diagraming here.  Could you tell me what
> you are thinking about with pgnet.  Hmm...maybe I should do my homework and
> see what pgnet actually means :)
> 
> On Wednesday 24 April 2002 03:21 pm, you wrote:
> > I updated my OpenGIS diagram from last year, and alot of the dotted
> > lines have disappeared! The open-source GIS community is definately
> > rocketing along.
> > P.
> 
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