[Qgis-user] Re: [postgis-users] [Qgis-developer] Fwd: WKTRaster Plugin 0.1

[Maurício de Paulo]

As asked, I've added a simple screenshot of the plugin working on my blog.
It's a fast presentation for my Brazilian friends.

http://mapeandoobrasil.blogspot.com/2010/12/postgis-raster-plugin-para-qgis.html

Best regards,
Mauricio de Paulo

2010/12/1 Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us>

>  Just a tutorial similar to what Jorge and Pierre's did with screen
> shots.
> http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/WKTRasterTutorial01
>
> http://gis4free.wordpress.com/category/postgis-raster/
>
>
> We were planning two -- one displaying PostGIS layers in MapServer
>
> and one displaying in QGIS similar to what we did a while back for
> OpenJump:
>
> http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/72-OpenJump-for-PostGIS-Spatial-Ad-Hoc-Queries.html
>
>
> We haven't tested MapServer since GDAL 1.7, but will be good to see how
> Jorge's GDAL 1.8 improvements work with MapServer now.  We were  able to
> load back then with some issues but wasn't really testing for speed.  We
> were too ecstatic when our layers actually showed up in MapServer and that
> we were able to do both band and attribute filters on top of it that we
> weren't even thinking about speed.
>
> Thanks,
> Regina and Leo
> http://www.postgis.us
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Maurício de Paulo [mailto:mauricio.dev at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:24 PM
> *To:* Paragon Corporation
> *Cc:* PostGIS Users Discussion; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org;
> Qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [postgis-users] [Qgis-developer] Fwd: WKTRaster Plugin 0.1
>
> Actually the plugin was born in really speedy fashion. I think that at the
> moment it speaks for itself as it's actually very simple.
> I could test the UI on windows, if that's what you need, but to actually
> read the raster you need gdal recognizing postgis rasters so only for 1.7
> builds.
> That's why i was able to alter it on windows. I can test the plugin part. I
> can't test GDAL part.
> QGIS is releasing a new version these weeks. I'm going to ask if is anyone
> going to compile a windows build with gdal 1.7 or (with luck) 1.8.
> What kind of demo do you need? I don't have a hosting for the plugin at the
> moment but I can produce some ubuntu's screenshots (or even a video).
> The plugin's fairly simple, though.
> For the next request (a tool to process the queries), QGIS does have a
> really nice tool called RT_Sql to execute PostGIS SQL queries.
> I don't really know if I should bring a new tool to the application doing
> almost the same thing with just different datasources.
> What can be done is to talk with the guys who developped RT_Sql and check
> if they don't want a little improvement to cope with raster layers too.
>
> Anyway, there is still a mystic point for me: some processing returns
> vector and some return rasters (and I don'nt think that's all). That's...
> odd to cope with. I'm still giving some thought to it. I still need to read
> how postgis raster processing works and gives results.
> Best regards,
> Mauricio de Paulo
>
>
> 2010/11/30 Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us>
>
>>
>> > Great team work that you and Jorge are doing!
>> > Any other sugestions on what a "Load postgis raster" plugin should do?
>> Your wrote yesterday:
>> > "Stefan asked about the processing. This is something the plugin doesn't
>> do."
>> > Is this feature request already solved?
>> > If not, I would be happy with a free text input window for entering SQL
>> queries as an alternative for "power users".
>>
>> > Yours, S.
>> Yes that would definitely be a great feature as well as having it in a
>> pre-compiled windows build.
>>
>> Mauricio,
>>
>> Do you have a link for more information about this plugin.  I'd like to
>> include it as part of the PostGIS manual and PostGIS raster wiki.
>> Unfortunately we don't have a build environment for QGIS, but if there is
>> a
>> windows build,Leo and I would  be happy to write up a demo on using the
>> tool
>> And at the very least we'll be mentioning it in the PostGIS in Action book
>> if not including snapshots as well.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Regina and Leo,
>> http://www.postgis.us
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Mauricio de Paulo
> Engenheiro Cartografo
>
>


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Mauricio de Paulo
Engenheiro Cartografo
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