FOSS4G2007 IntegrationShowcase

Competitive FOSS4G2007 showcase

At FOSS4G2007, a showcase is planned to see how well the OSGeo (and non-OSGeo) software performs, based on the same dataset - to see each project handles the same information.

For more information, visit the following page:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G2007_IntegrationShowcase

Data sources:

• Original data (recommended): http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Canadian_Geodata
• Data on PostGIS server: see http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G2007_IntegrationShowcase

GRASS 6.3

Startup

Definition of a new GRASS location using the given EPSG code 3005:

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Selection of geodetic datum for EPSG code 3005:

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New location 'canada_foss4g2007' created, ready to start GRASS:

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Import of map 'ntdb_road_50' from PostGIS server

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For us friends of command line:

  v.in.ogr dsn="PG:host=office.refractions.net port=20543 dbname=foss user=foss password=foss4g07" \
           output=ntdb_road_50 layer=ntdb_road_50 type=line

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Import of original data sets

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Data processing in GRASS

• visualization
• analysis
  • distances
  • vector networking, LRS
  • ...
• QGIS
• JavaGRASS/uDig

Data export

• KML
• DXF