From a76673bf19d3179ddb6a5ad001f5018b30ebe2cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Regina Obe Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 15:36:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] fix some faqs I got wrong, break out some long faqs. Add Tamas nightly build to list for latest and greatest windows GDAL binaries git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@5610 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee --- doc/faq_wktraster.xml | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/faq_wktraster.xml b/doc/faq_wktraster.xml index 3e0598d00..8216cc923 100644 --- a/doc/faq_wktraster.xml +++ b/doc/faq_wktraster.xml @@ -65,15 +65,18 @@ The driver currently doesn't support irregularly blocked rasters, although you can store irregularly blocked rasters in PostGIS raster data type. If you are compiling from source, you need to include in your configure - --enable-FEATURE=WKTRaster --with-pg=path/to/pg_config to enable the driver. + --with-pg=path/to/pg_config to enable the driver. + Refer to GDAL Build Hints for tips + on building gdal against in various OS platforms. If your version of GDAL is compiled with the WKT Raster driver you should see PostGIS WKT Raster in list when you do gdalinfo --formats - FWTools latest version for Windows is compiled with WKT Raster support. + To get a summary about your raster via gdal use gdalinfo: gdalinfo "PG:host=localhost port=5432 dbname='mygisdb' user='postgres' password='whatever' schema='someschema' table=sometable" + To export data to other raster formats, use gdal_translate the below will export all data from a table to a PNG file at 10% size. Depending on your pixel band types, some translations may not work if the export format does not support that Pixel type. @@ -89,6 +92,20 @@ + + Are their binaries of GDAL available already compiled with PostGIS WKT Raster suppport? + + Yes. Check out the page GDAL Binaries page. Any compiled wiht PostgreSQL + support should have PostGIS WKT Raster in them. + We know for sure the following windows binaries have PostGIS WKT Raster built in. + FWTools latest stable version for Windows is compiled with WKT Raster support. + PostGIS WKT Raster is undergoing many changes. If you want to get the latest nightly build for Windows -- then check out + the Tamas Szekeres nightly builds built with Visual Studio which contain GDAL trunk, Python Bindings and Mapserver executables. Just + click the SDK bat and run your commands from there. http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk/. + Also available are VS project files. + + + What tools can I use to view PostGIS raster data? -- 2.40.0