[postgis-users] Generating PNGs from PostGIS

Mark Leslie mrk.leslie at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 22:00:52 PDT 2008


Dylan Lorimer wrote:
> Hi PostGIS Users,
>
> In your opinion, what do you think is the best way to build PNGs from
> PostGIS queries? I see the shp2img tool but it looks like I'll have to
> write a load of .map files. I'm hoping there's an easier tool I can
> use to execute an ogr-driven PostGIS query and construct the PNG from
> the results.
>
> Any ideas are greatly appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
> dylan
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Off the top of my head, I believe both uDig and QGIS are able to save
out PNG images, and both are capable of connecting to a PostGIS server. 
QGIS can even export those pesky .map configuration files for you.

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