[postgis-users] interoperability/compatibility

[Wood Brent]

> Dear users
> 
> Can someone comment on general compatibility/interoperability of OSS with 
> other OSS or with the preoprietary systems.

Perhaps useful references (pertaining to PostGIS) would be:

http://qgis.sourceforge.net/docs/install.html
 
QGIS is a simple GUI which allows you to look at PostGIS data, and import data
from shapefiles intp PostGIS tables. It uses PostGIS, Postgres, GDAL, Proj4,
GEOS, Qt to work together to create a GIS suite from interoperating
components.
 
The install guide describes the intallation of each of these components to
build the whole system.

 
http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/conferences/GRASS2002/proceedings/proceedings/pdfs/Blazek_Radim.pdf
 
This paper was presented at a GRASS conference a couple of years ago. GRASS
is perhaps the premier OpenSource GIS package, certainly in terms on longevity
&
overall functionality. It describes the new vector data capability which is
based on PostGIS as the spatial vector data management tool.
 
 
http://www-stat.uni-klu.ac.at/~agebhard/preDSC2003.pdf
 
This contains the preliminary slides from a presentation about integrating
PostGIS and R (the open source stats package) 
 
 
www.safe.com/reader_writerPDF/postgis.pdf
 
FME from SAFE is pobably the most complete commercial GIS data reformatter
available. They now support PostGIS as a standard geographic data source.
 
 
There are plenty of others, UMN mapserver supports PostGIS, in a similar
fashion to QGIS, so web mapping is also there.
 
 
Hopefully a few useful examples....
 
Brent Wood