[postgis-users] Raster Support...

[Stephen Frost]

* Frank Warmerdam (warmerdam at pobox.com) wrote:
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
> >The main thing that jumped out at me when we last had a thread on the 
> >topic was how many different models people had of what "georaster" is.  
> >Perhaps the simplest solution is "georaster is what oracle says it is".
> 
> I am personally nervous about contributing a lot to such an effort without
> a better sense of how rasters are handled in other RDBMS type systems.
> I would like to do GeoRaster support for GDAL at some point, and then I
> might have more to offer.  We don't necesarily have to work like the
> GeoRaster but I would want to understand it well before adopting or
> dismissing it.

Do the OpenGIS folks have anything for raster images?  What about
looking at what GRASS is doing?  Sorry if these are naive questions, I
havn't really delved into dealing with raster images yet but it's coming
up fast on my list of "things to add" to the systems I'm dealing with.

	Thanks,

		Stephen
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