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Mastering PostGIS

PostGIS is an open source spatial database system that offers a wider array of spatial analysis function and representation of geometric data types to databases. This book offers a tailored approach to practice common and most complex geo-processing tasks experts do with ease to design efficient GIS systems. Through the course of the book, not only will you learn what are the different data types, spatial querying, indexing and other complex operations on data, but also learn to create an end to end GIS solution. This book aims to teach you how to get maximum out of PostGIS and integrate it with other platforms like Geoserver, Opelayers, Javascript libraries to create a fully analytical GIS application.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

10h56m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

If you are a GIS developer or analyst who wants to master PostGIS to build efficient, scalable GIS applications, this book is for you. If you want to conduct advanced analysis of spatial data, this book will also help you. The book assumes that you have a working installation of PostGIS in place, and have working experience with PostgreSQL.

Book content

chapters 10h56m total length

Importing Spatial Data

Spatial Data Analysis

Data Processing - Vector Ops

Data processing - Raster ops

Exporting Spatial Data

ETL Using Node.js

PostGIS – Creating Simple WebGIS Applications

PostGIS Topology

pgRouting

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