[postgis-users] Raster Support...
Dylan Beaudette
dylan.beaudette at gmail.com
Fri Aug 25 10:48:28 PDT 2006
On Friday 25 August 2006 10:12, 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
Cross-posting to the GRASS list...
There are plans for a completely new raster data model in the future release
of GRASS. Perhaps synchronizing efforts would be a good thing. I for one
would love to have raster support in postgis.
Cheers,
--
Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341
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