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Re: [udig-users] Exporting a shapefile to PostGIS
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Pierre,
"User friendly" is the goal, but once we get familiar with using the
application, it becomes hard to recognize the points of friction... as
a new user, if you could over your first week or so write down every
moment where you go "I want to do X, but it is not clear how..." that
could be used in the future to try and streamline things.
Developers can't see the forest for the trees, it's in the nature of
understanding how things work far too well -- imagine a car built by
auto mechanics... you'd control the carborator with a little unlabeled
wire... :)
P.
On 3/18/08, Pierre Racine <Pierre.Racine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At step 4 how do you ensure that the layer you are creating will be a PostGIS layer?
>
> Pierre
>
> PS: I'm sorry to say that but uDig is far from being user-friendly...
>
> >-----Message d'origine-----
> >De : udig-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:udig-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part
> >de Jody Garnett
> >Envoyé : 3 mars 2008 19:44
> >À : Pierre Racine
> >Cc : udig-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Objet : Re: [udig-users] Exporting a shapefile to PostGIS
>
> >
> >Thinking ... we have not hooked it up as an "Export" yet; but it is
> >possible.
> >
> >Can you try the following sequence for me and let me know how it goes:
> >1. Open up a map showing the shapefile
> >2. Select all the features in the shapefile (if the Edit > Select All
> >action does not work use the selection tool)
> >3. Select the PostGIS server that you want to export
> >4. Layer > Create ....
> >5. The create type dialog should have the same schema as the features
> >being copied (if not you are going to have to do it by hand)
> >6. Add you new type to the map
> >7. Paste the features
> >8. Commit
> >
> >If this works we will add it to the online help under "tasks".
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Jody
> >
> >Pierre Racine wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I would have expected uDig to be able to load a shapefile
> >and export it
> >> to PostGIS. Is it possible?
> >>
> >> Pierre
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