[postgis-users] Raster Support...

[Paul Ramsey]

Well, I had a use for raster-in-the-database myself recently, but it  
was quite focussed on analytical requirements, to the extent of doing  
something like "grass in the database", with SQL as the interface.   
But that is not Oracle GeoRaster, it's something else again.

Last time this subject came up, I asked for use cases: once you get  
your rasters in the database, what are you going to do with them?   
(Suck them out again and put them on a screen?  Go get a WMS server,  
you wacky lunatic, stop using your database like a file system!)

To repeat:  once you get your rasters in the database, what are you  
going to do with them?

On 25-Aug-06, at 10:12 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:

> * 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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