Postgis Cookbook, Second Edition

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. This book is a comprehensive guide on PostGIS tools and concepts which are required to manage, manipulate, and analyse spatial data in PostGIS. It will cover 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. Furthermore, you will learn to take advantage of basic and advanced vector, raster, and routing approaches along with the concepts of data maintenance, optimization, and performance, which will help you to integrate these into a large ecosystem of desktop and web tools. By the end, 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 project's requirements evolve.

• | Author: Pedro Wightman, Mayra Zurbaran, Stephen Vincent Mather
• | Publisher: Packt Publishing
• | Publication Date: Mar 30, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 584 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1788299329
• | ISBN-13: 9781788299329