[postgis-users] Re: What aplication may i buy to edit postgisdata.

[Jody Garnett]

Brent Fraser wrote:

>Chris,
>
>  I just tried JUMP and it looks very intriguing.  Over the past couple of
>weeks I've been testing various WMS clients with Mapserver, trying to find a
>good one that our sales people can use to show our raster data products.
>Most have shortcomings when dealing with selecting or setting coordinate
>systems.
>
>  I've noticed that JUMP will give the user the opportunity to select the
>coordinate system from the list supplied from the WMS server (excellent!),
>but there seems to be no way to set the view (task) coordinate system so I
>can overlay (and JUMP can project) local lat/lon shapefiles.
>
>We tend to keep our shapefiles unprojected and let ArcView 3.x do the
>projecting when necessary.  This relieves us from have the same data in
>multiple coordinate system (and now that Mapserver can do 24-bit raster
>reprojection and act as a WMS server we may want to do the same for our
>raster data).
>
>Any plans in the future for JUMP to project local vector data on the fly?
>
The Geotools2 list had thought of doing this work by way of intergrating 
with Jump.
They have some nice reprojection code so it was an obvious benifit they 
could offer.

They are focusing on a release right now but may come back to the idea.

Jody