"Norman Vine" wrote: > I would suggest adding them to a PostGIS database which when > appropriately indexed has *quick* respones. > http://postgis.refractions.net
Is there a converter which generates SQL-scripts for PostGIS similar to 'shp2pgsql' ? I have a PostGIS server running here at home - mostly as a playground to help understanding how things are working - and would be happy to fiddle with the TIGER data. I was already trying to push Paul Surgeon to make his ideas about airport layouts PostGIS-compatible, but for good reasons he can't .... > Note mapserver is easy to set up to serve PostGIS data > http://mapsereg.gis.umn.edu either interactively or as a WMS > image server i.e georeferenced textures could be served > directly to an application I was thinking in a similar direction (serving roads, rivers, railways, lakes and airports from a database) but as I understand, PostGIS doesn't store raster data, only 2D geometries. Right ? 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 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
