Ingres Geospatial Project

Ingres has spatial support since the mid-1990's through the spatial library, an Object Model Extension (OME) library. Unfortunately the code is the one piece of Ingres that isn't open source.

This project was created to replace the "old" spatial library with a new one.

To get involved, please join our Mailing list or visit the #ingres IRC channel

All bugs and tasks will be tracked in our bug tracker

Related Pages

Ingres support in GDAL/OGR

Importing and exporting data

Primary goals:

1) Make it easy for community to work with Ingres

2) Develop a new library that IS open source (GPLv2 license)

3) Reuse code from open source projects (such as GEOS for one example) and strengthen the OSGEO community

4) Ensure Ingres supports the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Simple Feature Specification for SQL

5) Ensure access layers such as OGR, FDO support Ingres (thus enabling applications to use Ingres as a spatial repository

Secondary goals:

1) Work with the community to develop a geospatial platform/distribution

2) Add new features and capabilities such as geocoding and routing.

3) Create import tools to allow easy migration from other RDBMSs

Feature listing:

Phase 1 is aimed for summer 2008

Phase 2 is aimed for fall 2008

Phase 3 is aimed for be 1st half 2009

Subsequent phases will come after

(this is just a very rough guide, more community involvement = faster/more likely to hit dates)

Area Feature Old library New library Project Phase
OGC Compliance 4D no yes 1
OGC Compliance point yes yes 1
OGC Compliance line yes yes 1
OGC Compliance polygon yes yes 1
OGC Compliance multi-line yes yes 1
OGC Compliance multi-polygon yes yes 1
OGC Compliance curve no yes 2
OGC Compliance multi-curve no yes 2
OGC Compliance surface no yes 2
OGC Compliance polyhedralsurface no yes 2
OGC Compliance ring no yes 2
OGC Compliance multi-curve no yes 2
Indexes rtree (hilbert) yes yes 1
Geo support Proj4 - coordinate support no yes 2
Geo support Raster support yes yes 3
connectivity FDO Driver no yes 2
connectivity OGR Driver no yes 1
connectivity WKT no yes 1
connectivity WKB no yes 1
connectivity Import from Oracle no yes 3
connectivity Import from MS SQL no yes 3
connectivity Import from Informix no yes 3
connectivity Import from PostgreSQL/PostGIS no yes 3
Indexes GiST no yes 4
Extras Routing no yes 4
Extras Geocoding no yes 4
Extras Data mgmt tools no yes 5

http://www.osgeo.org

http://geospatial.blogs.com/

Thank you,

Andrew

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