[postgis-users] Re: PostGIS inquiries

[Randy James]

Hi 

You are right about FME. I have been using the FME
workbench and man what a great tool, it can query,
reproject, join tiles, buffer all in one shot. I had over
100 mapsheets to extract definite streams from and create
50M and 100M buffers for and tried many GIS programs, and
FME came out on top.The gis programs that were crashing for
one reason or another were taking a long time to do the
tasks, and i was doing one task at a time. FME completed
the task in 3 hours whereas using a GIS it was taking all
day.

Cheers
Randy
--- Paul Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net> wrote:
> If you are just reading from shape, there is really no
> reason to get 
> into the FME. It is when you have to read from something
> unstructured 
> (like a CAD file or IGDS file) and structure it before
> writing it that 
> FME really comes into its own. Also for writing *out* to
> the multitude 
> of FME supported formats. So, not a tool for basic stuff,
> but incredibly 
> powerful. If you deal with alot of formats in your job,
> it is money well 
> spent.
> 
> P.
> 
> Randy James wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I have tried to use FME to convert from Shp to postgis
> and
> > found that it crashed every time, so do not use it. So
> > rather than wasting my time i just use sql.
> > 
> > I have been using MS access to edit my postgis tables
> > through the ODBC for postgres.
> 
> 
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