Re the use of PostGIS: our software 'Compendium', uses MySQL, which is why they want to use it for uDig/Geoserver. They have even mentioned the idea of an itegrated database for the two applications to share!
Michelle -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jody Garnett Sent: 01 November 2005 01:32 To: User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS Subject: Re: [udig-devel] Drag and Drop and beyond. M.S.Bachler wrote: > Hi! > > Thanks for the reply about D&D. > I have been side-tracked for a few weeks on something else, but am now > coming back to look at this properly. > > Some of the questions I am about to ask will probably be stupid, but > here goes. > > I have a steep learning curve ahead. > I need to get my head into uDig, Geoserver and how it all works very > quickly and would be grateful for a boost. > > Ultimately, I need to set up a database in MySQL, communicated to > through Geoserver and used by uDig to store GIS information some of > which will be dragged in from another application in the form of text > strings and image files. > If you are crunched for time go with PostGIS, it is way more tested/stable with respect to GeoServer. > I have installed Geoserver successfully, and have been trying to > understand what format a database schema would take. Is there a > standard schema required for geoserver to understand the data, or does > it just pass it about and it is uDig that needs the data in a certain > format? Or is it converted somewhere along the way? Is that where GML > comes into play? > And documented :-) > It's quite late at night here in England, so I hope I am making sense! > > I am trying to understand how to start approaching the D&D stuff I > need to do. If I drop a string or image file onto a Map, I assume it > would need to create a new layer in the layer manager (and assuming I > have programmed where), ultimately store the data in the database and > then render the feature. > > So I need to deal with Map, LayerManager, RenderManager, Catalogue, > Feature and probably more? Ahhh! I feel sleepless nights coming on. > > I really work best from examples. > Working directly with code and experimenting by tweeking until I > understand. > I tried to find example code to play with. > Did you check out the tutorial source code in svn? > I wrote a small plugin to add a menu item, just to try and learn more > about Eclipse. But there did not seem to be much example code relevant > to what I am trying to do, or else I understand so little at the > moment that I did not recognise which examples would be useful to me. > Could anyone suggest any examples I should look at? > See above. > I know this email has lots of questions about different areas. If > anyone has the time to answer any of it that would be great. I really > need a leg up with all this, or I may get paralyzed by fear at the > seeming magnitude of it all. > Heck you are just looking at code, normally it is GIS data that breaks people's will. Jody _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
