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PostGIS Cookbook

For web developers and software architects this book will provide a vital guide to the tools and capabilities available to PostGIS spatial databases. Packed with hands-on recipes and powerful concepts

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Jan 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    An easy-to-use guide, full of hands-on recipes for manipulating spatial data in a PostGIS database. Each topic is explained and placed in context, and for the more inquisitive, there are more details of the concepts used. If you are a web developer or a software architect, especially in location-based companies, and want to expand the range of techniques you are using with PostGIS, then this book is for you. You should have some prior experience with PostgreSQL database and spatial concepts.

    What you will learn

    • Import and export geographic data from the PostGIS database using the available tools
    • Structure spatial data using the functionality provided by the combination of PostgreSQL and PostGIS
    • Work with a set of PostGIS functions to perform basic and advanced vector analyses
    • Connect PostGIS with Python
    • Learn to use programming frameworks around PostGIS
    • Maintain, optimize, and finetune spatial data for longterm viability
    • Explore the 3D capabilities of PostGIS, including LiDAR point clouds and point clouds derived from Structure from Motion (SfM) techniques
    • Distribute 3D models through the Web using the X3D standard
    • Use PostGIS to develop powerful GIS web applications using Open Geospatial Consortium web standards
    • Master PostGIS Raster

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

      PDF ISBN: 978-1-84951-867-3
      Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
      Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
      Publication date: 2025
      Language: English
      Pages: 484
      Related subjects:
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