RE: GIS-type databases using PostgreSQL

From: "Roderick A(dot) Anderson" <raanders(at)tincan(dot)org>
To: Ken Mort <ken(at)mort(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: GIS-type databases using PostgreSQL
Date: 2001-02-04 00:48:12
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.10.10102031642450.23592-100000@tincan.org
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On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Ken Mort wrote:

> 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).

You might look at MapServer 'http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/' it supports
PostgreSQL vi. one of the support scripting langauges. " ... Perl, Python,
Tk/Tcl, Guile and even Java."

Rod
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