[postgis-users] Raster tutorial: sample data

[Jorge Arévalo]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 03/01/2011 alle 19.13 +0100, Jorge Arévalo ha scritto:
>
>> What do you mean with "PostGIS only"? You need GDAL at least for
>> loading raster data in PostGIS Raster. Or are you talking about Oracle
>> GeoRaster tutorial?
>
> Yes, I think all the Oracle stuff is quite confusing (I would say
> intimidating) for newbies, and unuseful if one want to work only with
> free sw.
>

Yes, you're right. I'm a newbie too, and Oracle GeoRaster scares me. I
did the tutorial for a presentation on FOSS4G 2010. I'm focused on
PostGIS Raster now.


>> You have a QGIS plugin for WKT Raster (old name of PostGIS Raster) at
>> http://pyqgis.org/repo/contributed. The plugin was created by Maurício
>> de Paulo. I'm not sure if the last version of the plugin is working
>> with the last version of GDAL PostGIS driver (release 20912,
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/changeset/20912), but it may help you.
>
> Yes, thanks; I know it well: I've been debugging it, sending lots of
> feedback to Mauricio. Now I have a new error, probably due to the recent
> upgrade of the plugin, I'm waiting for his response.
> As soon as I'll have it working, I'll try to set up a tutorial based on
> my data, and I'll publish it.
>

Sounds great! :-D.


>> I need to say the GDAL PostGIS Raster driver is one of my TODO tasks.
>> I'm working on it at same time I'm working on PostGIS Raster
>> extension. I'd like to improve it faster, but I really can't.
>
> Sure, we all know time of skilled developers is the real limiting
> factor.
>
> Thanks a lot!
> --
> Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc
>

Thanks to you, for testing the driver. I need as much feeback as
possible to improve it.


Best regards,

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