PostGIS
Spatial and Geographic objects for PostgreSQL
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Tips
pgAdmin shows no data
Every one or two months, someone asks on the PostGIS users list usually somewhat panicked, My geometry is missing when I look in pgAdmin III
This is documented in the PostGIS Frequently Asked questions section of the manual I tried to use PgAdmin to view my geometry column and it is blank, what gives?
Since this question gets asked so much, I thought it best to highlight it again.
Spatial objects can be big things and if your geometry, geography, or raster row field is big enough, pgAdmin is not going to load it and will just show an empty field. This is by design. There are a couple of ways to verify you really have data and even how big your geometry, geography or raster column is
Case Studies
Institut Géographique National
The Institut Géographique National (IGN) is the national mapping agency for France, with 1800 employees and a mandate to collect, integrate, manage and distribute reference geographical information for the whole country.
InfoTerra
Infoterra has been in the geospatial business for over 25 years, since its founding in 1980 as the UK National Remote Sensing Centre. In that time, NRSC grew, formed international partnerships with space agencies, expanded into aerial data collection, and was eventually privatized and re-named “Infoterra” in the late 1990s.