Slides from a Geocamp 2013 talk about what Geokettle is and how we used it to migrate data from AutoCAD to an Oracle database.
Original HTML slides at http://bit.ly/from-cad-to-db
3. Agenda
The world is complicated
Our use case
First part: AutoCAD
Second part: GeoKettle
Conclusions
4. The world is complicated
On harbours we have draughtsmen,
surveyors, civil engineers
High skills on technical drawings, surveying, etc
Almost 0 (zero) knowledge on GIS or databases
They live inside AutoCAD
8. One use case
We have a space management application
Cartography is maintained in DWG format
We have to load that data
into an Oracle database
The draughtsman has to be able to load it as he
does changes on the cartography
43. Remarks
GeoKettle is a powerful tool to manipulate data
It is a specialized desktop GIS to automate
processes that will be executed many times
It is mainly focused on powers users with
knowledge on SQL, JavaScript, OGR/GDAL,...