[postgis-users] Thematic mapping with PostGIS

[Johannes Sommer]

Hi Doug,

As Desktop-Client for PostGIS - besides QGIS and UDIG - you can try:

- OpenJUMP(http://www.openjump.org) with the SISDB-Plugin (for improved 
PostGIS-connections), thematic mapping (without the natural breaks routine)
- Kosmo (http://saig.es/en/index.php) , thematic mapping (without the 
natural breaks routine)
- gvSIG (http://www.gvsig.gva.es), thematic mapping with support of 
natural breaks (the support for postgis-geometry-types is constrained => 
editing postgis-tables can be annoying)
- Spatial Commander (http://www.gdv.com/down/scommander.php) NON-OSS, 
!only in GERMAN!, thematic mapping with support of natural breaks 
(editing with postgis-tables can also be difficult)
- Thuban (http://thuban.intevation.org), thematic mapping without 
natural breaks, but other possibilities

regards,
Johannes

Dan Putler schrieb:
> Hi Jim,
>
> QGIS (which is what I assume you mean by "Quantum") allows you to create
> thematic maps using PostGIS layers. Go to the properties of a layer and
> muck with the legend type. Alternatively, you can load PostGIS layers
> into uDig (http://udig.refractions.net), and alter the style of a layer.
>
> Dan
>
> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 19:08 -0500, Doug Foster wrote:
>   
>> I am new to PostGIS, and want a good Windows desktop mapping tool to
>> view and thematically map boundary data from my PostGIS database.  I
>> have Quantum, which is a nice viewer, but it doesn’t seem to do
>> thematic mapping.  I am a heavy MapInfo and Maptitude user, but they
>> don’t read PostGIS spatial boundaries.  I wish they would.
>>
>>  
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>> Is there a free/inexpensive tool to view and do some nice thematics?
>> I would also like to have the “natural break” routine, which I use by
>> default since it’s the beast way to break up the categories.
>>
>>  
>>
>> I have been doing all my database work in SQL Server and then linking
>> from MapInfo and linking with equivalent boundary files (census block
>> groups and zip codes for all USA).  That’s for the birds when I’m
>> running routines in SQL Server and want to view the results
>> graphically on an interactive basis.  It’s very clumsy.  So
>> PostgeSQL/PostGIS is a much better solution but I haven’t found a good
>> way to view the results spatially.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Thanks…..
>>
>>  
>>
>> Doug 
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