[postgis-users] raster2pgsql, netcdf, and windows

[Paragon Corporation]

Mike,
GDAL is a hard one in the sense that there are too many things you can and
can't compile into it.  I don't think there is any packaged distribution of
PostGIS (even Linux/Unix) that can claim they support all the available GDAL
drivers.  I could be wrong.  They probably don't support a lot of the
proprietary ones that require signing NDAs to download the SDK at any rate.
 
The only other thing we don't package is SFCGAL which we are planning to
package as part of PostGIS 2.2.  Again I don't think any Linux/Unix PostGIS
distributions package SFCGAL at this point.
 
Thanks,
Regina

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[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mike T
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 1:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [postgis-users] raster2pgsql, netcdf, and windows


Regina,

Thanks for the feedback.  At least I know I understood the problem
correctly.  I'll try converting the data as you suggest, or teasing it with
SciPy, at least until I can move the project onto a Linux box.

Is there a list of any other differences between the full PostGIS, and
what's in the Win executables?  That would be good info to have.

Thanks again!
-Mike

At 10:13 AM 3/3/2014, you wrote:


Mike,
 
You are correct the PostGIS windows GDAL lib for raster support (which
includes raster2pgsql) is not built with netcdf support.  We built it to not
require extra dependencies beyond what gdal includes,
what you could do is use MS4W or  http://www.gisinternals.com/sdk/  and use
gdal_translate to convert to a supported format.  Though this may not be an
option depending on what you want to read from it.
 
I recall trying once to build in with netcdf and ran into issues (mostly
with additional dependencies required like hdf this that)  so put it aside
as a non-trivial bit of effort to include that.
 
If there is enough interest and people are willing to subsidize our effort,
we'd be willing to put in the work to add it and maintain it as part of
PostGIS windows distribution.
 
Thanks,
Regina
http://www.postgis.us
Windows PostGIS Stack Builder maintainer
 
 
 


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mailto:postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mike T
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 1:28 PM
To: PostGIS Users Discussion
Subject: [postgis-users] raster2pgsql, netcdf, and windows

Hi all,

I'm new to PostGIS, so I apologize in advance if this has been asked and
answered, or if this the wrong place.

I've just installed Postgres 9.3 on Windows 8.1 from pre-built binaries, and
had installed PostGIS 2.1.1 via Stack Builder .  I'm trying to use
raster2pgsql on a netcdf file.  Does anyone know if this is supported on
Windows?  All I get is "unable to read raster file".  

raster2pgsql -G yields a long list with nothing that looks like netcdf.
>From what I've able to gather from the docs, there's some underlying
dependency with GDAL stuff.  But on Windows, installing from pre-built
binaries, there's no separate gdal toolkit I can see.  I believe it's all
already baked into the distributed executable.  If I need to alter the
underlying tools, or rebuild with a netcdf library, I'm not sure how I'd go
about that.  I can probably build from sources if I have to, but I'd really
rather not go down that rabbit hole.

I tried reinstalling PostGIS from the latest dev binary distribution, but
there's no difference.

I was able to install MS4W, which includes a version of gdal tools for
Windows, and, using that, I can read the netcdf metadata, so I know the file
itself is good.

Does anyone know how I can get raster2pgsql to recognize it?  Did I miss a
step, or is this just not possible on Windows?

Any suggestions, or pointers to additional info would be a big help!

Thanks,
Mike 
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