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Over 80 taskbased recipes to store, organize, manipulate, and analyze spatial data in a PostGIS databaseAbout This Book
  • Integrate PostGIS with web frameworks and implement OGC standards such as WMS and WFS using MapServer and GeoServer
  • Convert 2D and 3D vector data, raster data, and routing data into usable forms
  • Visualize data from the PostGIS database using a desktop GIS program such as QGIS and OpenJUMP
  • Easy-to-use recipes with advanced analyses of spatial data and practical applications
Who This Book Is For

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 fine-tune spatial data for long-term 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
In Detail

PostGIS is a spatial database that integrates advanced storage and analysis of vector and raster data, and is remarkably flexible and powerful. PostGIS provides support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database and is currently the most popular open source spatial databases. If you want to explore the complete range of PostGIS techniques and expose the related extensions, this book is a must-have.

This book is a deep-dive into the full range of PostGIS topics, with practical applications of the concepts and code. It is a comprehensive guide on PostGIS tools and concepts which are required to manage, manipulate, and analyse spatial data in PostGIS. This book is packed with systematic instructions of hands-on examples and in-depth explanations. Even for experienced users, this book will serve as a great source of reference by providing new ways of working with PostGIS through the books easy-to-follow approach.

This hands-on guide looks at key spatial data manipulation tasks, explaining not only how each task is performed, but also why. It provides practical guidance allowing you to safely take advantage of the advanced technology in PostGIS in order to simplify your spatial database administration tasks.

This practical book will help you take advantage of basic and advanced vector, raster, and routing approaches. You will learn to use the concepts of data maintenance, optimization, and performance, which will help you to integrate these into a large ecosystem of desktop and web tools.

With this comprehensive guide, you will be armed with all the tools and instructions you need to both manage the spatial database system and make better decisions as your projects requirements evolve.

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PostGIS Cookbook

PostGIS Cookbook

Copyright 2014 Packt Publishing

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.

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First published: February 2014

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Credits

Authors

Paolo Corti

Thomas J Kraft

Stephen Vincent Mather

Bborie Park

Reviewers

Jorge Arvalo

Andrea Flesca

Acquisition Editor

Mary Jasmine Nadar

Content Development Editor

Azharuddin Shaikh

Technical Editors

Vrinda Nitesh Bhosale

Rahul Nair

Anita Nayak

Humera Shaikh

Copy Editors

Tanvi Gaitonde

Dipti Kapadia

Kirti Pai

Shambhavi Pai

Project Coordinator

Mary Alex

Proofreaders

Stephen Copestake

Lauren Harkins

Graphics

Abhinash Sahu

Indexers

Rekha Nair

Tejal Soni

Production Coordinator

Shantanu Zagade

Cover Work

Shantanu Zagade

About the Authors

Paolo Corti is based in Rome, Italy. He is an environmental engineer with more than 15 years of experience in the GIS sector. After working with proprietary solutions for some years, he has proudly switched to open-source technologies and Python for almost a decade.

He has been working as a developer and analyst for organizations such as the EU Joint Research Center, UN World Food Program, and the Italian Government.

Currently, he is working within the GeoNode project, for which he is a core developer, in the context of emergency preparedness and response.

He is an OSGeo Charter member and writes a blog on open-source GIS at http://www.paolocorti.net/.

I would like to thank the PostGIS Steering Committee and everyone else who makes PostGIS such a beautiful project.

A special thanks must go to the co-authors of this book: they have been brilliant mates always ready to give me suggestions and help.

A mention is needed here to some geospatial minds that are great source of inspiration for me: Paul Ramsey, Sandro Santilli, Frank Warmerdam,and Even Rouault.

Last, but not least, I would like to thank my wife Renata and my family for their support and patience.

Thomas J Kraft is currently a Planning Technician at Cleveland Metroparks after beginning as a GIS intern in 2011.

He graduated with Honors from Cleveland State University in 2012, majoring in Environmental Science with an emphasis on GIS.

When not in front of a computer, he enjoys his weekends landscaping and the outdoors in general.

I'd like to thank the co-authors of this book, who are some of the most knowledgeable and motivated professionals in the field. It's truly an honor to have been involved in this process.

I'd like to give special acknowledgements to Stephen Mather (also a co-author) for introducing me to the world of open-source GIS and my girlfriend, Sandy, for keeping me on the straight and narrow.

Stephen Vincent Mather has worked in the geospatial industry for 15 years, having always had a flair for geospatial analyses in general, especially those at the intersection of Geography and Ecology. His work in open-source geospatial databases started 5 years ago with PostGIS and he immediately began using PostGIS as an analytic tool, attempting a range of innovative and sometimes bleeding-edge techniques (although he admittedly prefers the cutting edge). His geospatial career has spanned a variety of interesting and novel natural-resource projects, everything from the movement of ice sheets in Antarctica to hiking viewsheds and mobile trail applications to help park users find trails, picnic areas, and restrooms.

Stephen is currently the GIS manager for Cleveland Metroparks in Cleveland, Ohio. He manages a small geospatial shop that specializes in high-end cartography, curating and generating data, geospatial web development, and analyses for natural-resource management, largely with open-source software.

Stephen is also a Mennonite technologist, aka a straw-hat hacker, interested in creating fair and open data and infrastructure for better governance and humanitarian purposes. He is heavily involved in the Cleveland Civic Hacking movement as he works with the public to help them get engaged with geospatial data. In his spare time, he builds guitars really, really slowly.

Thanks go out to those who form my geospatial pedigree: Gordon Longsworth (and his advisor Ian Mcharg), Kevin Czajkowski, Karl Schneider, and Ken Jezek, as well as to the geospatial minds who inspire me, including Martin Davis.

A special thanks goes to the blessings that are my two beautiful and bright children and my wife (who is equally so), all of whom exhibit endless patience and love. They are three people who both structure my life and fill its interstitial spaces with the glow of their love.

Bborie Park has been breaking (and subsequently fixing) computers for most of his life. His primary interests involves developing end-to-end pipelines for spatial datasets. He is an active contributor to the PostGIS project and is a member of the PostGIS Steering Committee. He happily resides with his wife Nicole in the San Francisco Bay Area.

I would like to thank my wife Nicole, who patiently tolerated many hours, days, and weeks of my working when I should have been relaxing. I would also like to thank the PostGIS community and Steering Committee for accepting and providing feedback for my contributions to the project.

About the Reviewers

Jorge Arvalo is a computer engineer from Universidad Autnoma de Madrid, UAM. He started developing web applications with JS, PHP, and Python. In 2010, he began collaborating with PostGIS and GDAL projects after participating in GSoC 2009, creating the PostGIS Raster GDAL driver. He currently works as a freelance Web/GIS developer and collaborates with the geomati.co group in projects, such as gvSIG CE or QGIS. He also writes a blog about GIS at http://www.libregis.org.

Andrea Flesca is an Italian electronic engineer working in the software world for Selex ES, a primary Italian electronic systems and software provider. After extensive experience with software development and over the past several years, he has dealt with GIS systems and Enterprise Architectures. He's Technical Head for systems integration.

Andrea loves rock music and knows how to prepare a great tiramisu.

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