[postgis-users] RE: zigGIS Usage Experiences

[Paolo Corti]

Hello Joshua
and thanks for the workaround, I will test it as ASAP
It is very possibly that we could join to make some modification at ZigGis,
as far as I would like in my spare time to write a connector for PostGis for
ArcMap.
First I was looking at PgArc (I also migrated that at ArcObjects 9), but I
think the best approach is like ZigGis does, without a proxy shapefile, but
directly reading the data.
I have one more question, before going on.
In this mailing list it was claimed, I think just from Abe, that ZigGis can
read and also WRITE PostGis data. Is this correct? Because from what you are
writing seems that ZigGis can just read and not write, and maybe I could be
not interested in continuing using ZigGis.
In fact I have decided to write in my spare time a full Read/Write PostGis
connector for ArcMap. But before doing that I would like to deeply
investigate if ZigGis already does the job.

Best regards
Paolo Corti
http://www.paolocorti.net


joshua.uyehara wrote:
> 
> Hey Paolo,
> 
> Abe isn't working on it anymore, but I have been occasionally plugging
> away at it myself.  The problem with adding the layer in ArcMap is due
> to a minor bug.
> 
> ZigGIS pulls the geometry column data from PostGIS in its native binary
> format and passes it to ArcMap.  Unfortunately, PostGIS' internal binary
> format is not identical to the expected wkb format, so ArcMap silently
> ignores it and basically treats the table as a feature-less object
> class.
> 
> One quick workaround is to create a view of the table that converts the
> geometry column with asbinary(), and then manually add the necessary
> entry to the geometry_columns table.
> 
> E.g.,
> 
> CREATE VIEW geom_table_view AS SELECT asbinary(geom_column) as
> geom_column, column2, column3, FROM geom_table;
> INSERT INTO geometry_columns (f_table_schema, f_table_name,
> f_geometry_column, coord_dimension, srid, type) VALUES
> 	('public', 'geom_table_view', 'geom_column', 2, -1,
> 'MULTIPOLYGON');
> 
> Change schema, table, column names, srid, etc. to match your table, then
> specify the view as the table to be opened with ZigGIS.  It's an ugly
> kludge, but I haven't had the time to fix the problem in ZigGIS itself
> yet.
> 
> Many of the feature class functionality hasn't been implemented yet, so
> you can't do much besides display the features.  I'm planning to add
> features to ZigGIS as I need them for work, but I can't give you any
> timelines on it, as I'm swamped with other stuff at the moment.
> 
> Hope that helped,
> Joshua Uyehara
> joshua.uyehara at syngenta.com
> 
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> Paolo Corti
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 6:46 AM
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> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] zigGIS Usage Experiences
> 
> 
> Hello Abe
> 
> you made a great job with your ZigGis! The ArcObjects code is amazing!
> 
> maybe you can give me a help
> I compiled your code for using it with ArcGis 9 (i made some little
> modifications at the code to get this) and .NET 2.0 It compiled fine,
> but when I start ArcMap and I add a PostGIS layer, it adds the layer on
> the TOC but nothing is showed/drawed on the map.
> Looks like geometries are not read from the shape column.
> I am wondering if you are still on this project, and maybe you could
> give me some help, or if I am on my own and must deeply
> investigate/debug myself the code in order to find what is not going
> properly
> 
> best regards
> Paolo Corti
> GIS Developer
> http://www.paolocorti.net
> 
> 
> Abe Gillespie wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry for the cross post, but the zigGIS list only has 9 subscribers 
>> with a ton more downloads than that.
>> 
>> I'm curious about any experiences people are having using or even
>> *trying* to use zigGIS.  Is it working?  Anyone need any help?  Any 
>> constructive criticism?  ... I haven't heard a peep yet.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> -Abe
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