[postgis-users] How To Load SRTM Files into PostGIS

[Pierre Racine]

You may want to try what is available at :

http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/postgres

Otherwise, I think you might be able to compile a 2.0 version and install just the raster component over your PostGIS 1.5.3 without problem. With the shared libraries renaming from one version to the other, though, this night not work...

Pierre

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Puneet Kishor [mailto:punk.kish at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 12:47 PM
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Cc: Pierre Racine
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] How To Load SRTM Files into PostGIS
> 
> 
> On Oct 4, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Pierre Racine wrote:
> 
> > Hi there is a complete tutorial on how to load SRTM rasters in PostGIS here:
> >
> > http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/WKTRasterTutorial01
> 
> 
> This is great! Thanks. A question follows --
> 
> >
> > You load them as true rasters. This implies you have PostGIS Raster installed.
> >
> 
> It is not clear from http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/WKTRaster whether I can
> install PostGIS Raster with PostGIS 1.5.3, or if I have to go the PostGIS 2.0 way.
> 
> I already have a working copy of PostgreSQL 9.0.1/PostGIS 1.5.3 installed via
> MacPorts under /opt/local that I want to continue using. So, I'd like to download
> only the PostGIS Raster source and compile it against my existing software.
> 
> How do I accomplish the above?
> 
> --
> Puneet Kishor