[Gllug] Re: MySQL Bashing - very very cheap hosting

[Russell Howe]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 04:49:52PM +0100, Jonathan Hartley wrote:
> I've used the major proprietary databases for Geographic Information System work (ie. maps), and I was about to install MySql at home to teach myself about it and see what GIS / spatial stuff could be achieved with Open Source tools. Since this list has established that maybe MySql isn't all I was expecting it to be, can I ask whether PostgreSql is any better? Are there any other projects that you guys would recommend me to check out as a GIS/spatial database server?

According to my postgres book, postgres has support for spatial
datatypes. I would assume this is so that it can be used with GRASS
(open source GIS), but I don't know.

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