[postgis-users] HELP! Ms-Access shape data to the_geom of postgresql

[Marc Angelo]

I can't give you a full answer but I can tell you why (I think) the "data 
conversion" is failing (somebody please correct me if I am wrong). I think 
you will find that the co-ordinate data in Access is a "double" or "single" 
data type as Access does not have a "geometry" data type like in Postgres. 
When you use the PostGres ODBC connector you are just transferring the data 
from one database to another so Postgres is just placing the data in the 
fields in the nearest data type that is equivalant to the Acces data type.

If the data needs only to be transferred once (not on a regular basis) from 
Access you could import the data by writing a small routine in C++.Net or 
VB.Net. I wrote a small app a while ago that imported geometry data into 
Postgres.
I connected to PostGres using NPGSQL data connector. All my data was in csv 
fomat inside a text file. The routine opened the csv file and then imported 
each record into Postgres by using an SQL insert statement combined with the 
GeometryFromText() function which converts text coordinates into a geometry 
data type in Postgres.
Having said that I am not competent with SQL so I suspect that you could 
write an SQL statement within Postgres to import and convert data that 
resides in a csv file.....this would mean exporting your data from Access 
into a .txt or csv file.

Hope this gives you at least some help.

Cheers
Marc


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Subject: [postgis-users] HELP! Ms-Access shape data to the_geom of 
postgresql


> Help....
>
> I've been trying to convert database from Ms-Access shape data to the_geom
> for postgresql.
>
> I try to export from MS-Access to postgresql with PGSQL-ODBC connection,
> but the result in postgresql still not result as the_geom field but still
> the shape data in fields.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to Convert database from Ms-Access shape data to
> the_geom for postgresql???
>
> thanks for reply....
>
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