[postgis-users] Re: PostGIS inquiries

[Paul Ramsey]

Hi Ricardo,
The only proprietary tool which currently reads directly from PostGIS 
is the FME, from Safe Software, but that is primarily a format 
conversion tool, not a viewer/editor.
There are a several open source alternatives which currently read 
directly from PostGIS.  GRASS GIS has a PostGIS extension in the latest 
code.  The GeoTools Java toolkit can read and write directly to 
PostGIS, but currently lacks a capable UI framework.  The JUMP Java 
toolkit has some simple PostGIS reading plugins, and has a nice UI.  
QGIS can read directly from PostGIS.  Thuban can read directly from 
PostGIS (might even be able to write, I have not recently investigated).
None of the alternatives is ideal at this moment, but all of them are 
getting closer quickly.  The ideal viewer/editor (in my mind) should 
read and write directly to PostGIS with a live link to the database 
that uses the transactional attributes of the database to allow 
multiuser editing.
Yours,
Paul

On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 12:06 PM, rbayley at Argentina.com wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> I?ve recently heard about postGIS and its capabilities. It seems 
> awesome.
> No .SHP files anymore. Yet, I dont know where to represent all the 
> saptial
> information. It seems postGIS can only be represented using MapSERVER. 
> Am
> I correct? Isn?t there any component such as ESRI?s MapObjects, or 
> BlueMarble?s
> GeoObjects where I could visualize the results from PostGIS ?
> Do you know if any of the mentioned software (ESRI?s and BlueMarble?s) 
> could
> visualize PostGIS results.
>
> Any recommendations appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Ricardo Bayley
>
>
>
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