[postgis-users] Survey: Anyone Doing Flood Mapping with PostGIS?

p Valdés p.valdes334 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 08:14:45 PDT 2015


Can be done with GMT also, so should be possible to do this with postgis.
Just select only points with Z coordinates higher that your desired flood
level.

2015-10-05 16:37 GMT+02:00 Newcomb, Doug <doug_newcomb at fws.gov>:

> Not postgis, but you may want to check out these GRASS addons for
> methodology .
>
> https://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/addons/r.damflood.html
> https://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/addons/r.hazard.flood.html
>
> Doug
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Robert Burgholzer <rburghol at vt.edu> wrote:
>
>> With recent flooding in the eastern US, I am wondering if anyone is doing
>> this?  If so:
>> * Are you mapping risk or incidence or both?
>> * Are you using raster or vector to calculate flood risk/incidence?
>> * If vector, what types of shapes, TIN or other?
>> * What delivery method are you using, i.e., desktop analysis only,
>> web-mapping, mapserver, etc.
>>
>> Regards,
>> /r/b
>>
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