[postgis-users] Status of OGR & PostGIS?
Frank Warmerdam
warmerdam at pobox.com
Wed Sep 4 07:00:21 PDT 2002
C F wrote:
> Hello,
> Perhaps somebody could clarify for me what is going on in the OGR
> world with respect to PostGIS. As I understand it, one of the uses of
> OGR would be to say, convert a shapefile into a PostGIS layer or vice
> versa... with the real value of OGR in being that it it's not limited
> to that format, you can use several formats. Right?
> The OGR site states that PostGIS support is "experimental". We also
> have available to us, shp2pgsql/pgsql2shp from the PostGIS team. From
> monitoring the list over the last few months, it appears that there is
> active maintenance (bug fixing) on the shp2pgsql utility but have not
> seen any movement or discussion on OGR.
>
> So my question is... does anybody have a feel for how reliable
> OGR/PostGIS is relative to shp2pgsql? Is there any ongoing
> development? Basically, I'd much rather use OGR in case I want to
> expand my list of accepted input formats, but I'll be getting
> shapefiles from a wide variety sources... and based on what I've been
> reading in the list, it sounds like quite a few unexpected problems
> can arise when importing shapefiles.
>
> Thanks!
>
CF,
The OGR/PostGIS gateway is actively maintained, and I have made a number
of tweaks to it
in recent months. I know that Tyler Michell and I have both
successfully used in it projects, but
I would have to say the OGR PostGIS support is only lightly used currently.
Please feel free to file bug reports (in the GDAL/OGR bugzilla) if you
find any problems with the
PostGIS support in OGR.
Best regards,
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