[Freegis-list] postgis & OOo

[Tyler Mitchell]

> 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.

A geographic data visualize/map component to OO would be cool.  Have you 
rendered any of the coordinates into features - have you actually done any 
graphical representation of the data?

Tyler