Oops. Try again! The bottom seems to have fallen off my last posting.
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Robert Lagacé wrote:
Rich Shepard wrote:
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> What I do know is that Bruce has assembled a team at Baylor that includes
> CS faculty with expertise in this subject. Perhaps we should ask the
> database experts to design an attribute database that works with vector and
> raster data and is specific to GRASS. This will not preclude tieing to any
> other dbms (via ODBC, for example), but will put multiple table database
> capabilities in GRASS for those of us end users who don't need to link to an
> enterprise-level or university-level system.
>My thinking goes in that direction and I will like to be in contact with those
at Baylor. GRASS GIS and attribute data are organised on file structure with
flat
files. We need to design a equivalent structure that can be implemented by any
database management software (DBMS). The metadata need to be in the DBMS