[postgis-users] PostGIS user interface

[Brent Wood]

Hi Robert,

Postgis is not a complete GIS tool such as you describe. It is an add-on to the Postgresql relational database to support the management of spatial data - a (very powerful) spatially enabled database. (it is also often used to describe a Postgres database with Postgis installed - so could mean both the addon toolset & the finished database - which can get confusing, especially when it is not actually a complete GIS system) 


This could very easily manage the sorts of information you describe, in a database, but it has no map display capabilities. I recommend the combination of Postgis as the data management tool, coupled with QGIS as the desktop mapping (GIS) tool to allow you to "see" the Postgis data on a map, and click on it to view the linked attribute data. You can also use other tools to provide web based access via web services to the Postgis database - pretty much whatever you might want to do with spatial data can be done with some combination of open source tools like these.


Cheers,

 Brent Wood



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 From: "rkoehler at excellandservices.com" <rkoehler at excellandservices.com>
To: postgis-users at lists.osgeo.org 
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 3:01 PM
Subject: [postgis-users] PostGIS user interface
 


Hello, 

Are there versions of PostGIS that can be used as a database input interface to capture land owner information for Land Acquisition companies? (Right-of-Way acquisition).  Our right of way company is looking for a GIS solution is which we can capture GPS coordinate data, land owner information easement documentation, notes, etc. and attach it to specific parcels, so that when we click on a parcel the data will pop up.  e.g. easement document.  

Thank you, 


Robert 651-210-9111




Robert Koehler
Senior Siting and Land Rights Agent
Excel Land Services
rkoehler at excellandservices.com
651-253-0003

 

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