[postgis-users] raster2pgsql, netcdf, and windows

[Mike T]

I understand.  If I can't work around this, I'll end up building gdal 
the way I need it, and then the rest on top of it, but (hopefully) I 
shouldn't have to go that far.  I'm new to GIS data, so I'm still 
getting used to the technology stack.  There's so much to learn!

Thanks again for the info.
-Mike

At 01:52 PM 3/3/2014, you wrote:
>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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>From: postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
>[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mike T
>Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 1:28 PM
>To: PostGIS Users Discussion
>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/>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>http://www.postgis.us
>>Windows PostGIS Stack Builder maintainer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>From: postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [ 
>>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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