[udig-devel] PostGIS layer won't render

Paul Ramsey pramsey at refractions.net
Fri Aug 4 09:07:08 PDT 2006


Any chance you can just pg_dump your database for us? I am willing to 
bet there is an unholy interaction between mismatched Postgis and udig 
assumptions in the CRS space.

Tomi Pieviläinen wrote:
>> It appears that at least part of the problem stems from the fact
>> that  one of the layers you are using does not have a CRS associated
>> with  it.  When a layer doesn't have a CRS it defaults to
>> "Cartesian"   unfortunately I've been having problems with that
>> because there is  currently no way to transform between WGS84 and
>> Cartesian...
> 
> One of the coordinate systems we use does not have EPSG number, it is
> specific to Helsinki. Third of the postgis-columns and the shapefile
> is in this system. That doesn't really explain why it doesn't render
> the postgis layer at all (the first column is in WSG84). Then again,
> there isn't really any specification what uDig tries to do and which
> column it uses when given multiple choices. Also uDig succesfully
> renders the shapefile, which isn't in a well known coordinate
> system...
> 
> -Tomi Pieviläinen
> 
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