From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: Please consider adding Geographic Information Systems, GIS, support to the next release of Fedora Core. One of the options would be "Spatially" enabling PostgreSQL, http://www.gis-news.de/news/fme_postgis.htm. I have used Oracle Spatial in business applications. In one shell script application I was able to use a SQL query to find qualified rows based on the row's relationship to map data in the database. I reported on these and used Mutt to email the report to a dynamic list of email addresses. This simple application saved the organization many hours each day of manually assembling this information. There is no reason open source databases cannot have the same power. This script could easily be adapted to PostGIS enable PostgreSQL database. What is encouraging is that the postgis extensions to postgreSQL already have "commercial" support through FME. FC 1 RPMs are located here http://postgis.refractions.net/rpms/fedora/1/i386/. On top of the database support these following applications from the GISKnoppix distro, http://www.sourcepole.com/sources/software/gis-knoppix/, also look promising. The development list also mentioned some of these packages http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-August/msg00171.html. It would be great to add these to Fedora also. # GRASS Raster/vector GIS, image processing system, and graphics production system # UMN MapServer Environment for building spatially enabled Internet applications # MapLab Suite of web-based tools to create and manage MapServer applications and map files # MapDesk Viewer/editor for UMN Mapserver # PostgreSQL / PostGIS Postgres database with PostGIS extension # MySQL 4.1 MySQL database with spatial extensions # TerraView Viewer and data analysis for vector and raster data stored in databases # Jump Workbench for viewing, editing, and processing spatial datasets # Thuban Interactive geographic data viewer # Interlis Compiler and UML editor for Interlis formats # and other software GPSdrive, GPSMan, TerraView, Jump, Thuban, Interlis, # Spearfish data set for GRASS Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): postgresql-server-7.4.2-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.FC 1 and 2 do not include GIS support in the distro. 2. 3. Actual Results: Using ESRI, http://www.esri.com/, products. The bright side is that they are replacing the AML language with Python as the scripting language. Expected Results: Use Open Source GIS application software. Additional info:
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
For what it's worth, there's been some activity on the Fedora Extras list about getting some of these programs included.
Matthew. Thanks I see you changed the version to fc4test2.
I think Extras seems like a fine idea. While I'd personally like to see anything and everything Postgres- related included in Core, it seems unlikely to happen in the near future :-( I pushed this bugzilla entry up to current just so it wouldn't fall off the radar completely ... but I don't foresee that I can actually respond to it soon either ...
Changed status to current release so the RFE remains on the list.
postgis is included in Fedora Extras as of a couple months ago, so we can finally close this item as complete.