[postgis-users] How are you editing data in PostGIS?

Paul Ramsey pramsey at refractions.net
Wed Jul 16 07:56:19 PDT 2003


Chicken, meet egg. :)

On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 07:01 AM, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:

> GRASS?  There are a couple of open-source options.  Further, ESRI have 
> repeatedly been asked to consider a solution set that incorporates 
> little things like PostGreSQL and MySQL, but they keep claiming that 
> the market is not ready for it because there are no serious 
> deployments, anywhere, of open source software...
>
> Mark Rodrigo wrote:
>> Hello:
>> I have been working through PostGIS/PostGreSQL as an alternative for 
>> clients
>> that require solutions without the heavy price tag of ArcSDE. As 
>> usual, the
>> potential users express their concerns and ask appropriate pointed
>> questions. One question was how can one input AutoCAD data into 
>> PostGIS? I
>> responded that there was no open source direct approach yet, but we 
>> could
>> convert CAD files to shapefiles, then input the data. Yet, a more 
>> important
>> question was once the data was in there, how can we edit it? I have 
>> only
>> been doing read only tests up to this point, but how are you editing 
>> your
>> data once it is in PostGIS?
>> Thanks
>> Mark
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