Gooey
March 17th, 2010
The other thing I really enjoyed while re-tooling my geo-stack workshop was re-writing the PostGIS section to use the new GUI loader instead of the command-line tools.
The GUI was actually one of the first projects I worked on after coming to OpenGeo, and was a part of the 1.4 release. But it didn’t build in Windows, so nobody used it! For 1.5 I got myself a Windows build environment and made it work, so here it is! Another couple pages of boilerplate removed from the workshop.
Update: Soon to be available as “gooey apple” in the next release of the Suite.
I have used the new loader as well…works great! Now, if only I could find some sort of client that would let me view my data (loaded as geography)
Mapper,
FWIW — I use OpenJump ad hoc query for geography — Just have to remember to do an
ST_AsBinary.
Mapserver as I recall Paul mentioning supports geography out of the box.