PostGIS Essentials
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Introducing PostGIS and Setting it Up
- Introducing PostGIS and Setting it Up
- What is PostGIS?
- Why PostGIS?
- Installing PostgreSQL
- Installing PostGIS
- Installing QGIS
- Summary
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Creating Your First Spatial Database
- Creating Your First Spatial Database
- The development of spatial databases
- Creating our first database using a command line
- Creating a spatial database using GUI
- Summary
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Inserting GIS Objects
- Inserting GIS Objects
- Developing insertion queries with GIS objects
- What is a spatial reference system?
- Summary
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Selecting and Filtering GIS Queries
- Selecting and Filtering GIS Queries
- Grouping data
- Nonspatial queries
- Spatial functions
- Queries that use data from two databases
- Developing spatial queries with our own data
- Summary
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Displaying GIS Data Graphically
- Displaying GIS Data Graphically
- Introducing QGIS
- The QGIS application
- Hands-on with QGIS
- Developing a spatial query from QGIS
- Summary
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Management of Vectorial and Raster Data with PostGIS
- Management of Vectorial and Raster Data with PostGIS
- The GDAL/OGR library
- Working with GDAL/OGR commands
- Working with raster files
- Summary
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Performance Tuning
- Performance Tuning
- Spatial indexes in PostGIS
- Tuning spatial queries
- Tuning PostgreSQL's configuration file for our spatial database
- Summary
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Developing a GIS Web Application
- Developing a GIS Web Application
- Developing a web application
- Summary
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Developing a Desktop GIS Application
- Developing a Desktop GIS Application
- What is World Wind?
- Coding our first application
- Developing a management application
- Summary
