On a related note, Frank can you confirm that the MapServer and Python
MapScript distributed with FWTools do not have SDE support? I don't
see it in the release notes, so I am assuming that they do not. <br>
<br>
Thanks, <br>
<br>
David.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frank Warmerdam</b> <<a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
John Mugwe wrote:<br>> Dear all,<br>><br>> I have a windows and a linux environment with postgis and postgresql<br>> installed. i have installed FWTools1.0.5 in both environments.<br>><br>> On windows box I am able to convert some shape files that I have into
<br>> postgis( Postgresql) using the following command<br>><br>> ogr2ogr -nlt MULTIPOLYGON -f PostgreSQL PG: "host=localhost user=xxxx<br>> password=xxxx dbname =whatever" <directory to the shape file>
<br>><br>> All work fine.<br>><br>> however in the linux box I get the message the following message<br>><br>> Unable to find driver `PostgreSQL'.<br>> The following drivers are available:<br>> -> `ESRI Shapefile'
<br>> -> `UK .NTF'<br>> -> `SDTS'<br>> -> `TIGER'<br>> -> `IHO S-57 (ENC)'<br>> -> `MapInfo File'<br>> -> `DGN'<br>> -> `GML'<br>> -> `AVCBin'<br>> -> `REC'
<br>> -> `Memory'<br>><br>> Who can advice what to do?<br><br>John,<br><br>To my embarassment, I see FWTools for linux is not, and presumably has<br>not ever been distributed with postgres/postgis support. If you submit
<br>an enhancement request against FWTools in bugzilla, I'll try and add it<br>for some future release.<br><br>In the meantime, you could build GDAL/OGR from source with postgres/postgis<br>support.<br><br>Best regards,<br>
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