[postgis-users] Desperately seeking simple solution

[Robert W. Burgholzer]

Gerry,
I guess it would be helpful to know what exactly you want to do with the 
resulting data. Are you simply taking it from one form, like a dbf file or 
a flat text file (such as NCDC or NOAA data), and then copying it into 
postgis, or are you looking for some other type of implementation?

I have done a bit of what I describe above, i.e., creating a point theme 
with weather station data from NCDC, and importing text based data with the 
actual readings into a separate table. This has gone fairly smoothly with 
simple queries and so forth. The resulting tables are then quite 
conveniently accessed for a variety of applications once inside 
postgresql/postgis.

Feel free to email me on or off list if you would like to discuss further, 
or perhaps see some of the scripts I have written to accomplish these tasks.

r.b.

At 09:10 AM 5/30/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>I've got a postgres database that incorporates point data.  One table 
>holds lat/lon and other site (static) info, while another table houses all 
>the time-dependent data.  We're talking surface meteorological data for 
>the most part.
>
>I'm trying to transition a big chunk to PostGIS and was wondering if 
>there's a relatively easy way to do it.  I don't want to take the site 
>down for several days, so the transition will have to occur off-line, and 
>then I'll do a swap.
>
>I'm sorta at a loss right now for ideas and don't want to trash my 
>existing db in trying this.
>
>Thanks for all suggestions!
>gerry
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Robert Burgholzer
Environmental Engineer
MapTech Inc.
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