Tuesday, November 4, 2008

New database and files for automation process

I have created a new database entitled "CAD_database" which I will be using to put CAD shapefile in a PostGIS database. The purpose of this database is to hold all of the data that will be nessessary in order to automate the room number/name and type assignments.

Currently, I have the raw converted shapefiles in there along with a generalized version of the Cameron buildings polygon file. I have deleted all unessessary polygons from the file (called: cri_rooms*) and it only contains the room geometry.

I hope to use the original shapefile to further divide the polygons into several groups of files that will be used to relate room numbers to polygons in the table. There are several ways to achieve this, however, I must see what Jianfei wants to do in order to cater to his needs. Since each building, and sometimes floor, have different labels and layers this may be a hard process to accomplish.