RE: GIS-type databases using PostgreSQL

This would be a great addition to PG. I queried about this many
years ago (I think to Tom Lockhart) but I think there were other
priorities at that time.

I spoke to two groups (PostgreSQL Inc and GreatBridge) at this
year's Linux Expo in New York about this topic. I will forward
your project's web site to them.

My interest is to create open source Java classes that could be
used to create fat or thin mapping applications. In particular,
the thin apps should be able to connect to geographically
enabled servers (ideally PostgreSQL). This would enable
organizations to do mapping on a small budget (the commercial
vendors are charging way too much).

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Regards,
Ken Mort  <ken@mort.net>
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Franck@sopac.org (Franck Martin) wrote in
<F12ECEA0435AD211B5280008C7ACBC857FF28A@BIGIRON>:

>Hi,
>
>Me and others are planning to move PG to ISO19100 compliance.
>ISO19100 is the future standard that is describing GIS
>systems.
>
>If you visit FMaps.sourceforge.net and go in the CVS you will
>see in the directory /src/geoobj/ procedures to add
>geographic data types to PG. These procedures need to be
>rewritten as they are not ISO19100 compliant. But all the
>concepts are there and working.
>
>The work doesn't stop here and include metadata schema,
>feature schema, but a the moment the crunch is creating  a
>geographic object type in PG and rendering it.
>
>Cheers.
>
>Franck Martin
>Network and Database Development Officer
>SOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission
>Fiji
>E-mail: franck@sopac.org <mailto:franck@sopac.org>
>Web site: http://www.sopac.org/<http://www.sopac.org/>
>Support FMaps: http://fmaps.sourceforge.net/
><http://fmaps.sourceforge.net/>
>