[GRASSLIST:8172] Plotting points from postgresql

Hi,

For those of you who knows ArcView 3x: I want to make an event theme
from a table fetched from postgresql.

For you others: Is there any simple way to plot points stored (with
geographical coordinates) in postgresql on a map? As far as I can see,
the old command d.site.pg could do what I wantet, but that is removed
now, and I cannot see if any of the other d.* commands can plot
something directly from postgres (withouh the postgis layer installed)

Morten

Hello Morten,

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:42:53 +0200 "Morten Sickel"
<Morten.Sickel@nrpa.no> wrote:

Hi,

For those of you who knows ArcView 3x: I want to make an event theme
from a table fetched from postgresql.

For you others: Is there any simple way to plot points stored (with
geographical coordinates) in postgresql on a map? As far as I can see,
the old command d.site.pg could do what I wantet, but that is removed
now, and I cannot see if any of the other d.* commands can plot
something directly from postgres (withouh the postgis layer installed)

Try using v.in.db:

GRASS 6.1.cvs (spearfish57):~ > v.in.db -help

Beschreibung:
Create new vector (points) from database table containing coordinates.

Benutzung:
v.in.db driver=name database=name table=name x=name y=name [z=name]
   key=name output=name

Parameter:
    driver Input driver name
             Optionen: odbc,dbf,pg,ogr
              Standard: dbf
  database Input database name
              Standard: $GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/dbf/
     table Input table name
         x x column name
         y y column name
         z z column name
       key category column name
    output Name of vector output file
GRASS 6.1.cvs (spearfish57):~ >

More information about the module can be cound here:

  http://grass.itc.it/grass61/manuals/html61_user/v.in.db.html

Best regards

  Stephan

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