Data
Source Explorer
The Data
Source Explorer is used to manipulate the data sources within
the application.
It is accessible through:
Tools > Data Source Explorer...
The Data Sources supported by TerraView application are listed in the left field of the interface. Each data source has an icon and a name
associated.
- Microsoft
Access
- PostGIS
- Raster files (GDAL)
- Vector files (OGR)
- WFS/WMS/WCS
To add, delete, create a empty one, open/reopen a connection, or update the connection
parameters follow the steps bellow:
- Select one of the Data Source type from the list.
- Click on
to add an existing data
source as an Available Data Source and fill the
connections parameters.
-
Click
on 
to delete
a previous defined connection to a Data Source. All
datasets of the Data Source deleted will not be accessible by the Layer
Explorer anymore.
- Click on
to change the
connection parameters or just to reopen the connection.
- Click on
to create a new empty
data source.
To
fill the connections parameters for each data source type see
the Connector plugins.
Note: To
add support to other Data Source types (such as Oracle, SQlite) it is
necessary to define a plugin and load to TerraView application.