[Qgis-user] Swiss Knife. (ogr2ogr GUI and more)

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Peter,

On Mon, 09. Feb 2009 at 10:06:42 +0100, Peter Bange wrote:
> I am doing my best to get people in my organization use Q-gis in
> combination with a postgres/postgis database. I found out that not
> many GIS specialists are familiar with (relational) databases. Some of
> my collegues use ArcGIS, others MapInfo.  All the data are stored as
> shape and tab files. To help them get used to storing (all) their data
> in a database I developed a tool. I have nick named it Swiss Knife,
> you can do a number of different things with it:
> [...]

Sounds very interesting.
 
> The tool is written in REALbasic, I generate executables for Mac and
> Windows, did not try it for Linux but that should not be difficult.

I suppose that's the language you are most familiar with.  Otherwise
this is probably not the best choice for QGIS - as you can't reuse stuff
from QGIS.

The PostGIS table manager plugin for instance can provide graphical
previews of PostGIS tables.  Most of the features you describe, would
probably be a good extension for that plugin.

And there also is the ogr2ogr converter plugin.

BTW the history/changelog part is also something addressed elsewhere
(PostGIS Historisierung [1]; I don't know if there is a English version
of this) - no plugin yet.   Is that the same concept?

> I have no intention of making this tool for sale or something, just help
> to promote Qgis. Anyone interested ? It is in a beta stage, but it is
> starting to gain speed ...

Is this going to be a free project?  Do you have a link?  


Jürgen

[1] http://gis.hsr.ch/wiki/images/4/44/Postgis_historisierung.pdf

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