Spatial Manager Desktop™ - FAQs: Databases
Introduction
- Objective of this section
- To load spatial information tables included in spatial databases
- Topics in this section
- Accessing spatial databases: UDSs definition using connection and setting parameters
- Schemas and classes: structures of tables contained in databases
- Other connections like ODBC, etc.
How can I load a data Table from a spatial database or data store into a Map in Spatial Manager Desktop™?
To access spatial databases or data stores you need first to have defined a User Data Source (UDS) including all the parameters to connect with (to learn more about UDSs, see: Data sources page)
You can load a data Table from a spatial database or data store using the right-click menu over the Table item itself inside a container of the UDS (usually a Schema), in the "Data sources" panel, to load its content into a new or existing Map. You can also double-click over the Table item itself, in the "Data sources" panel, to load its content into a new or existing Map (this behaviour may be configured in the application settings)
To learn some other interesting ways (drag and drop or openning from Windows explorer) to load spatial data from files, take a look at Drag and drop of SHP, KML, GPX, etc., files to a Map