3DCityDB » Importer/Exporter

We have received several bug reports for the PostgreSQL/PostGIS port of the Importer/Exporter in the recent days. Thanks to all beta testers for providing feedback which helps us to improve the software. If you have also found a bug, please tell us by creating a new bug report on the New Issue site (you have to login first - get a user account here).

Some of the bugs have already been fixed, and we are currently dealing with the open issues. It requires some more testing before we can publish a bug fix release. In order to benefit from the latest fixes in the meantime, please follow the development in the postgis branch of our source code repository. In order to do so, you need a Subversion client installed on your machine (e.g., TortoiseSVN on Windows). Simply create a working copy of the source code using the following shell command (or a GUI equivalent):

svn checkout http://opportunity.bv.tu-berlin.de/svn/3dcitydb-imp-exp/branches/postgis

In order to update an exising working copy and to integrate the latest developments, issue the following command in the root folder of your working copy:

svn update

After having checked out or updated the project, you can build an executable version of the Importer/Exporter from the sources using the Ant script build.xml which is located in the root folder. This requires that the Ant binaries are available on your computer (get a copy here). All you have to do is open a shell, change to the root folder of the project, and run the command:

ant

This will create a subfolder named "3dcitydb-impexp-1.4-postgis-beta" which contains the starter scripts to run the Importer/Exporter. If you want to build a universaler installer instead then just use the command:

ant generate_setup

You will find the executable jar file of the universal installer in the subfolder "3dcitydb-impexp-1.4-postgis-beta-setup" afterwards.

Have fun,
Claus