[postgis-users] Raster Support...

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

> 
> 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.

I'd have to echo Paul here; what are you going to do with rasters in a
database?  And what can you get out of this approach in comparision to a
file system?

..Tom