Re: [postgis-users] The_geom is empty

2008-10-01 Thread Barend Kobben
That's just pgAdmin not knowing how to show them (it's not well arware of spatial types). -- Barend Köbben International Institute for Geo-Information Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC) PO Box 6, 7500AA Enschede, The Netherlands +31 (0)53 4874253 On 01-10-08 07:38, "Denis Rykov" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [postgis-users] pb OpenLayers using a local Mapserver

2009-03-09 Thread Barend Kobben
OK, but did you try to get it working by just typing the URL in a browser? That tests the actual Mapserver request, to see if that part of the setup works... Something like: http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/projet2009/ICPE.map&SERVICE=WMS&VERSIO N=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetCapabilities should result i

Re: [postgis-users] pb OpenLayers using a local Mapserver

2009-03-09 Thread Barend Kobben
Yes, this is (part of) a valid getCapabilities. Further down there should be a section that describes the LAYERs, with for each layer at least a TITLE and a valid BBOX (= bounding box). Check if this bounding box is there and is corresponding with the actual data you have. If not, there is an erro

Re: [postgis-users] pb OpenLayers using a local Mapserver

2009-03-10 Thread Barend Kobben
> yes I haved named every layers but I haven't bounding box. I guess you mean there's no BBOX in the GetCapabilities reply?. That's not good. I think (but others may correct me) that there is a bug/hidden feature in teh PostGIS connector of Mapserver that it does not get the extent of a layer if o

Re: [postgis-users] Recomendaciones para Instalacion

2009-07-08 Thread Barend Kobben
This is an english-language list... On 08-07-09 13:33, "Z.M." wrote: > Hola a todos. Ayer me puse a instalar postgis en mi pc con WinXP. ya que mi > experiencia con linux no ha sido muy productiva. Descargue la version PostGIS > 1.3.6 Release Quise intalarla en la PostgreSQL 8.4.0-1 No me lo qu

Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS temporal support

2009-10-05 Thread Barend Kobben
Hi Sinan, As stated by another poster, temporal support is inherent of the way you set up your DB schema. In order to be able to do 'temporal' things, you make sure there's temporal info in the tables, such as creation dates, expiration dates, validity periods, etcetera for relevant objects. Then

Re: [postgis-users] Any FOSS equivalent to ArcGIS Server tasks?

2008-02-01 Thread Barend Kobben
FYI, the OGC standardises "Tasks" as GeoWebservices and there's a WPS = Web Processing Service standard (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wps). Several implementations exist, eg at the 52North Open Source initiative (http://www.52n.org/). Barend On 31-01-2008 19:28, "Paul Ramsey" <[EMAIL

Re: [postgis-users] Problem with the Codification/charset from Postgis to mapserver

2008-04-03 Thread Barend Kobben
also make sure Mapserevre connects as a UTF-8 client to PG by satining including in the CONNECTION object: options='-c client_encoding=UTF8' -- Barend Köbben International Institute for Geo-Information Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC) PO Box 6 7500AA Enschede, The Netherlands +31 (0)53

Re: [postgis-users] Proper Installation of Postgres and Postgis on 10.5 Intel

2008-04-10 Thread Barend Kobben
I have been using the Kyngchaos ones for quite some time now, and never had problems, also not on my newest box with Leopard. Mind you, on that newer machine I have the newer version PG 8.3.1 and PostGIS 1.3.2. Besides, the author/producer of them is usually on this list and otherwise is quiet qu

Re: [postgis-users] Shapefile Tool

2008-06-17 Thread Barend Kobben
Same goes for QuantumGIS (qgis.org), and (I think) OpenJump and uDig... On 16-06-08 23:39, "listas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can use Kosmo (http://www.opengis.es . Sorry the webpages are only > in spanish languaje, but it is the new Kosmo website, and we hope it > will be in english lan

Re: [postgis-users] OT: Any one know of a Census list that discusses the Tiger data

2008-06-20 Thread Barend Kobben
So, would OSGEO be willing to host lists about every other existing national data format (runs into the hunderds, I'd guess :-)) -- Barend Köbben International Institute for Geo-Information Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC) PO Box 6 7500AA Enschede, The Netherlands +31 (0)53 4874253 On 20-

Re: [postgis-users] Upload a shapefile to PostGIS via Web?

2008-08-14 Thread Barend Kobben
Or use the OS gis-viewer QuantumGIS (www.qgis.org) it has a plugin called SPIT which allows you to load the file in QGIS and then upload to PostGIS... -- Barend Köbben International Institute for Geo-Information Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC) PO Box 6 7500AA Enschede, The Netherlands +31 (

Re: [postgis-users] GISVM - Free GIS Virtual Machine Pre-release

2008-09-03 Thread Barend Kobben
> I am a true believer in Virtualization!!! That's very nice for you, but realistically speaking out of the potential user group for Free and Open Source GIS tools, a veeery small percentage is true believers, and a quite large percentage has no clue what virtualization is, and will not be willing