[postgis-users] [Qgis-developer] Fwd: WKTRaster Plugin 0.1

[Jorge Arévalo]

2010/12/3 Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us>:
> Mauricio,
>
> Thanks
> ________________________________
> From: Maurício de Paulo [mailto:mauricio.dev at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 6:24 PM
> To: Paragon Corporation; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org; PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] [Qgis-developer] Fwd: WKTRaster Plugin 0.1
>
> As asked, I've added a simple screenshot of the plugin working on my blog.
> It's a fast presentation for my Brazilian friends.
>
> http://mapeandoobrasil.blogspot.com/2010/12/postgis-raster-plugin-para-qgis.html
>
> Best regards,
> Mauricio de Paulo
>

Great work! Many thanks! I'll improve the driver as much as I can.


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Jorge Arévalo
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> 2010/12/1 Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us>
>>
>> Just a tutorial similar to what Jorge and Pierre's did with screen shots.
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/WKTRasterTutorial01
>>
>> http://gis4free.wordpress.com/category/postgis-raster/
>>
>>
>> We were planning two -- one displaying PostGIS layers in MapServer
>>
>> and one displaying in QGIS similar to what we did a while back for
>> OpenJump:
>>
>> http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/72-OpenJump-for-PostGIS-Spatial-Ad-Hoc-Queries.html
>>
>>
>> We haven't tested MapServer since GDAL 1.7, but will be good to see how
>> Jorge's GDAL 1.8 improvements work with MapServer now.  We were  able to
>> load back then with some issues but wasn't really testing for speed.  We
>> were too ecstatic when our layers actually showed up in MapServer and that
>> we were able to do both band and attribute filters on top of it that we
>> weren't even thinking about speed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Regina and Leo
>> http://www.postgis.us
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Maurício de Paulo [mailto:mauricio.dev at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:24 PM
>> To: Paragon Corporation
>> Cc: PostGIS Users Discussion; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org;
>> Qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] [Qgis-developer] Fwd: WKTRaster Plugin 0.1
>>
>> Actually the plugin was born in really speedy fashion. I think that at the
>> moment it speaks for itself as it's actually very simple.
>> I could test the UI on windows, if that's what you need, but to actually
>> read the raster you need gdal recognizing postgis rasters so only for 1.7
>> builds.
>> That's why i was able to alter it on windows. I can test the plugin part.
>> I can't test GDAL part.
>> QGIS is releasing a new version these weeks. I'm going to ask if is anyone
>> going to compile a windows build with gdal 1.7 or (with luck) 1.8.
>> What kind of demo do you need? I don't have a hosting for the plugin at
>> the moment but I can produce some ubuntu's screenshots (or even a video).
>> The plugin's fairly simple, though.
>> For the next request (a tool to process the queries), QGIS does have a
>> really nice tool called RT_Sql to execute PostGIS SQL queries.
>> I don't really know if I should bring a new tool to the application doing
>> almost the same thing with just different datasources.
>> What can be done is to talk with the guys who developped RT_Sql and check
>> if they don't want a little improvement to cope with raster layers too.
>>
>> Anyway, there is still a mystic point for me: some processing returns
>> vector and some return rasters (and I don'nt think that's all). That's...
>> odd to cope with. I'm still giving some thought to it. I still need to read
>> how postgis raster processing works and gives results.
>> Best regards,
>> Mauricio de Paulo
>>
>>
>> 2010/11/30 Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us>
>>>
>>> > Great team work that you and Jorge are doing!
>>> > Any other sugestions on what a "Load postgis raster" plugin should do?
>>> Your wrote yesterday:
>>> > "Stefan asked about the processing. This is something the plugin
>>> > doesn't
>>> do."
>>> > Is this feature request already solved?
>>> > If not, I would be happy with a free text input window for entering SQL
>>> queries as an alternative for "power users".
>>>
>>> > Yours, S.
>>> Yes that would definitely be a great feature as well as having it in a
>>> pre-compiled windows build.
>>>
>>> Mauricio,
>>>
>>> Do you have a link for more information about this plugin.  I'd like to
>>> include it as part of the PostGIS manual and PostGIS raster wiki.
>>> Unfortunately we don't have a build environment for QGIS, but if there is
>>> a
>>> windows build,Leo and I would  be happy to write up a demo on using the
>>> tool
>>> And at the very least we'll be mentioning it in the PostGIS in Action
>>> book
>>> if not including snapshots as well.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Regina and Leo,
>>> http://www.postgis.us
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mauricio de Paulo
>> Engenheiro Cartografo
>>
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> --
> Mauricio de Paulo
> Engenheiro Cartografo
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