Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Re: Dynamic runtime modeling: which is the best choice?

On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:02:43 +0100, Alessandro Candini <candini@meeo.it>
wrote:

>Unfortunately I deal with very different shapefiles and I create models
>on the fly with ogrinspect tool.
>I cannot know the shapefile structure, before user upload: for this
>reason a table per shape is IMHO mandatory (as well as a clearer approach).
>

This sounds more like a need for shapefile translators (codecs, if
you will)... On input you'd convert the contents into a common database
format; reverse the process on output.

IOWs, my view is that you should be storing the "shape" and not the
"file".
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