"Norman Vine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Spott writes: >> >> I wonder how long it takes until someone imports the world's SRTM data >> into GRASS (with a networked database backend like PostGIS). > > AFAIK lots of people are doing this
Do you suggest we should do so too ? Why don't people share their development work ? > FYI You don't always need to store the actual data inside the DB, > often just some metadata, ie Bounds and the URL to the data, is in my > experience often a simpler more responsive solution. esp.. when the URL > is on localhost We would need a database where everyone around the world could be granted write access to a dataset that is kept at one central point (later we might talk about replication or a distributed database), Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
