Chaos systems AB presents a new and open source database connection, which connect to a large number of databases. It uses the open source FDO from Open Source GEO, which has been adapted to Topocad. Many customers have expressed a demanded of a freestanding database. On account of this, Topocad has three different solutions of database connections, where this FDO connection can collect and store data from a large number of different databases.
FDO database connection becomes a separate module to Topocad, and makes it possible to access data from several different geospatial data sources in the state of geospatial databases and file formats. FDO uses a model based on database connections, where each connection supports a certain format or data source.
Following database connections are used:
– MySQL
– PostGIS
– Oracle (Oracle 10g, express, and 9i)
– MS SQL Server Spatial
– ESRI ArcSDE
– SDF (Autodesk’s geospatial file format)
– ESRI SHP
– ODBC
– WFS
– WMS
– GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) (Raster)
– OGR (Vector format: shp, gml, dgn, kml, mapinfo etc.)
– SQLite
For more information please visit www.chaos.se/eng/topocad.htm
