PostGIS

Spatial and Geographic objects for PostgreSQL

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About PostGIS

PostGIS is a spatial database extender for PostgreSQL object-relational database. It adds support for geographic objects allowing location queries to be run in SQL.

SELECT superhero.name
FROM city, superhero
WHERE ST_Contains(city.geom, superhero.geom)
AND city.name = 'Gotham';

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In addition to basic location awareness, PostGIS offers many features rarely found in other competing spatial databases such as Oracle Locator/Spatial and SQL Server. Refer to PostGIS Feature List for more details.

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Not sure if you are running the best possible PostGIS for your PostgreSQL? Refer to our Version compatibility and EOL Policy.

License

PostGIS is released under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2 or later). Refer to License FAQ for more information. PostGIS is developed by a group of contributors led by a Project Steering Committee.

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PostGIS 3.0.3

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.0.3.

Best served with PostgreSQL 13.1, and GEOS 3.8.1

pgRouting 3.1.1

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PostGIS 3.1.0alpha3

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release the third alpha of upcoming PostGIS 3.1.0 release. This version is exposes some of the new performance and feature enhancements in not yet relesed GEOS 3.9 as well as numerous speed enhancements not requiring newer GEOS. Requires GEOS 3.6+ and PostgreSQL 9.6+. To use MVT you will need protobuf-c 1.1. or higher.

Best served with

PostgreSQL 13.1, GEOS 3.7 or higher is recommended.

pgRouting 3.1.1

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PostGIS 3.0.2, 2.5.5, 2.4.9 Released

The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide bug fix and performance enhancements 3.0.2, 2.5.5, 2.4.9 for the 3.0, 2.5, and 2.4 stable branches.

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PostGIS 3.1.0alpha2

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release the second alpha of upcoming PostGIS 3.1.0 release.

Best served with

PostgreSQL 13beta2, GEOS 3.7 or higher is recommended.

ST_MaximumInscribedCircle requires compilation with GEOS 3.9.0 in development to be enabled.

pgRouting 3.1.0 which will also be released soon.

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Move PostGIS extension to a different schema

As of PostGIS 2.3, the postgis extension was changed to no longer allow relocation. All function calls within the extension are now schema qualified.

While this change fixed some issues with database restore, it created the issue of if you installed PostGIS in a schema other than the one you wanted to it is not intuitive how to move it to a different schema. Luckily there is a way to do this.

For this exercise, I will install PostGIS in the default schema and then demonstrate how to move it into another schema location.

You can run these steps using psql or pgAdmin or any other PostgreSQL tool you want.

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Case Studies

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

As a software engineer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, I work on a collaborative neuron reconstruction and analysis software called CATMAID 1 (screenshot: 3), which is used for neuroscience research. We use PostGIS to represent neurons in a 3D space.

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Vanguard Appraisals

Vanguard Appraisals is new to the GIS world. In fact, we aren’t really in the GIS world; we just kind of brush up against it. We do mass property appraisal for entire county and city jurisdictions, and we develop software to collect, price and maintain values. We also host assessment data online so that homeowners can search and find property information much simpler from the comfort of their own home. Our software and websites are used in 7 states (IA, IL, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD).

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