[postgis-users] combine serveral parts of the country

Ralf Suhr Ralf.Suhr at itc-halle.de
Mon Sep 20 02:06:32 PDT 2010


Hi Chuchichäschtli,

you can use ogc_fid as primary key from your tables or create on schema for 
one village.

What "Chuchichäschtli" mean in german?

Gr
Ralf

Am Montag 20 September 2010 09:34:11 schrieb Thomas Andres:
> Dear List,
> 
> 
> 
> i’m Swiss and my English isn’t the most best. Even, I will try the explain
> You my problem. Perhaps You will understand J
> 
> 
> 
> In Switzerland the parts of the country were measured by different offices.
> The informations of the terrain (parcelles, rows, lakes, jungle etc
) are
> exchanged by Interlis Files (*.itf).
> 
> 
> 
> With ogr2ogr this files can be imported into a Postgres Database.
> 
> 
> 
> When You import only one file, it’s not a problem. Every Line, Point,
> Polygone and so on, has its own Feature-Id, which can be linked with
>  another feature.
> 
> I.e.: The geometry of a parcelle is linked with his number.
> 
> 
> 
> Now, when I would like add a second village to my GIS, in the same
>  Database, to be loaded in Mapserver with a mapfile layer
 the parcelle
>  with the same Feature ID will appear twice
 so the link to the number of
>  the parcelle is wrong

> 
> 
> 
> What I made in a first time: after have imported the first village, I add
>  to the primary and foreign keys, which I really I’m going to use in my GIS
>  a Char (‘a’ in example)
 by using PostgreSQL
 only after I imported the
>  second file. This is a solution which works, but not for long time J
> 
> 
> 
> I asked me, or better: I ask You, if there isn’t a mechanism in PostGIS or
> PostgreSQL which is specially implemented for this kind of collage
 Some
> kind of namespaces or
 I don’t know
 You understand =-) ?
> 
> 
> 
> Thänk You very much for Your help.
> 
> 
> 
> Salutation from “Chuchichäschtli”
> 



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