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The README is missing too many things, like how to get data in and out using existing tools. Are there any plans for GIS standards support? Can I use it with P
by officialchicken 11y ago
The README is missing too many things, like how to get data in and out using existing tools.
Are there any plans for GIS standards support? Can I use it with PostGIS/ArcInfo/civil engineering CAD software, upload SHP files, WEKT data, my muni's folio/block/lot tax data, the bus routes, population data from the census, or any other 100+ years worth of very expensive existing technology (like satellite imagery)?
There is a very large and older-than-internet software ecosystem this could play in.
- heurist 11y agoI'd definitely like to know what it adds to PostGIS.
- officialchicken 11y agoIt's the other way around too. Once you can use this with PostGIS, the platform becomes immediately more useful because you can now interact with most GIS data, tools, and standards. Think separation of concerns - use a storage engine for spatial data and a separate engine for rasterization and tile generation - and how this could be used in a market that still expects proprietary data AND software. The spatial data already exists and an entire industry built on pretty much a couple of companies tools (ESRI, Oracle, DigitalGlobe, GeoEye). You need to have the protocols or interfaces to interact with the storage engines. It will probably be another 50+ years before those databases change in any sort of major technological way. In many cases the tile generation and access to those tiles (usually via web interface) is often lacking or extremely difficult / expensive to setup.
- dunkelheit 11y agoSecond this. OGR driver does not seem very hard to hack together though..