[postgis-users] RE Importing shapefiles to PostGIS

[pcreso at pcreso.com]

Hi Shreerang,

I use QGIS to do this sort of verification, although you could also use OpenJump or udig. These Open Source GIS applications allow you to open both the shapefile & Postgis versions of the data and view them graphically (or cartographically) on screen. 

By opening both & overlaying (superimposing) them in contrasting colours on screen it is relatively easy to spot any variation between them. You can find any features that were either altered or omitted by the conversion & upload process.

It is not often these days that there are any problems, but this does let you see the data & carry out a simple check.

HTH,

  Brent Wood


--- On Fri, 1/29/10, Shreerang Patwardhan <patwardhan.shreerang at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Shreerang Patwardhan <patwardhan.shreerang at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] RE Importing shapefiles to PostGIS
> To: "PostGIS Users Discussion" <postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net>
> Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 7:18 PM
> Hello Ben,
>       Ya!! There are no more authentication errors!!
> But how do I verify that my data has been uploaded to
> postgis? In pgadmin I can't see any tables in my
> database- testdb. However, if I use the PSQL utility in
> pgadmin for testdb then I am able to see the contains of the
> 2 tables. Is this sufficient to verify that the data has
> been loaded into postgis? If not, then pleasse suggest
> something to verify..
> 
> 
> Thanx,
> Shreerang.
> 
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