[postgis-users] Re: Re: when rasters in Postgis?

[Darryl Watson]

Patrick wrote:

><strk at refractions.net> wrote in message 
>news:20050928155142.GA51082 at keybit.net...
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>>That said, Refractions' development plans do not currently include
>>raster support, but PostGIS source code is available to anyone
>>for using, adapting and sharing. Get involved.
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>This is of course the cheap way to end the discussion. I understand that 
>Refractions may not have the manpower available to do this singlehandedly, 
>but if you guys could just facilitate the process by acting as focal point 
>for discussion of specs and general guidance that would be great. I am more 
>than willing to help out, both in design and in implementation, but I just 
>by myself could not so easily generate the momentum and developer clout to 
>bring it to fruition. Because this does take some serious thinking, to 
>develop the complete specs from logical construct (what is a raster?) to db 
>schema, and then implement it.
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>Any serious takers? Contact me in private.
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>Cheers,
>Patrick 
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I've been staying out of this discussion because I'm new to geospatial 
computation, and storing rasters in a database doesn't solve any of my 
own problems.  My own application does store thousands of pictures and 
audio files, but they are only attributes of spacial objects, and so can 
be treated in a traditional RDBMS way.

Patrick, I don't think strk's 'get involved' message is a cheap blow off 
or shuts down the topic.  That's what this list is for; if you want to 
keep talking about it and try to get additional help with developing 
spatially-aware raster functions for PostGIS, that's great, keep posting 
here.  It sounds to me like the Refractions people aren't interested in 
pursuing that feature, but I doubt they'd actively block further 
development efforts.

It sounds to me like adding raster support is a larger and more 
difficult problem than when one first looks at it.  I look forward to 
more discussion about the topic, if you decide to run with it.
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