[Freegis-list] postgis & OOo

[Paolo Cavallini]

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Glad someone is interested. From the data source window of OOo one can send 
SQL queries to pg; this is normal, but I was surprised to see that the pg 
driver to understand gis commands like buffer etc. So, OpenOffice can act as 
a graphical frontend to postgis; this could be useful and encouraging for 
newbies, and practical also for more serious stuff.
All the best.
pc

At 18:24, mercoledì 28 luglio 2004 you presumably wrote:
> Paolo,
> The database connectivity possibilities with OOo sure open up a lot of
> opportunities.  I was looking the postgis side a while back, but am
> curious as to what exactly you have done.  Can you tell us some more about
> what kinds of things you've done with it?
>
> freegis-list-bounces at intevation.de wrote on 07/28/2004 08:25:36 AM:
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> > We just discovered one potentially useful function: it is possible to do
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> area
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> > calculations (and presumably other spatial queries) on a
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> postgresql/postgis
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> > database directly from OpenOffice.org (via the data source window), at
>
> least
>
> > with the native OOo postgresql driver (0.6).
> > Hope this may be helpful to someone.
> > All the best.
> > pc
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Paolo Cavallini
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Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy   Tel: (+39)348-3801953
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