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Subject:    Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS/PostGres Configuration
From:       Mike Toews <mwtoews () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-03-18 21:42:21
Message-ID: 22f0a52d1003181442x14bfcd73q81bc19dfc5f88996 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Another tool that I've used is ogr2ogr:
http://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html
http://www.bostongis.com/PrinterFriendly.aspx?content_name=ogr_cheatsheet

This transfers vector data from one database/file/etc to another.
There is a large list of supported database and file formats:
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html

It has tricky syntax, so often a few attempts are needed to get it
right. Also, there is an alternative to command-line:
http://www.ogr2gui.ca/

-Mike

On 18 March 2010 11:05, Steffan Chmuryk <schmuryk@icisociety.ca> wrote:
> Back again...
> 
> I have attempted to run the shp2pgsql command, without success. So I decided to \
> test some other datasets, and see what happens. 
> Two polygon datasets, 300mb and 950mb, and one point dataset, 18mb, all loaded \
> successfully. The civic address point dataset of 500mb, still does not load. 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Also, when will PostGIS be able to load data that is larger than 2gb? And, is there \
> any other intermediate format, other than shapefile, that I should consider using? 
> Steffan Chmuryk
> Technical Services Coordinator, ICIS
> www.icisociety.ca
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