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Mastering PostGIS

By : Dominik Mikiewicz, Michal Mackiewicz , Tomasz Nycz
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Mastering PostGIS

By: Dominik Mikiewicz, Michal Mackiewicz , Tomasz Nycz

Overview of this book

PostGIS is open source extension onf PostgreSQL object-relational database system that allows GIS objects to be stored and allows querying for information and location services. The aim of this book is to help you master the functionalities offered by PostGIS- from data creation, analysis and output, to ETL and live edits. The book begins with an overview of the key concepts related to spatial database systems and how it applies to Spatial RMDS. You will learn to load different formats into your Postgres instance, investigate the spatial nature of your raster data, and finally export it using built-in functionalities or 3th party tools for backup or representational purposes. Through the course of this book, you will be presented with many examples on how to interact with the database using JavaScript and Node.js. Sample web-based applications interacting with backend PostGIS will also be presented throughout the book, so you can get comfortable with the modern ways of consuming and modifying your spatial data.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Inspecting and validating a topology


After creating and populating a topology, the information is stored in multiple database tables. Luckily, PostGIS has a function for getting synthetic information about a given topology and its components: it's called topology.TopologySummary. It accepts one argument, the name of the topology in question:

SELECT topology.TopologySummary('my_topology'); 
                        topologysummary                         
--------------------------------------------------------------- 
Topology my_topology (id 2, SRID 4326, precision 0.00028) 
4567 nodes, 4765 edges, 4257 faces, 255 topogeoms in 1 layers 
Layer 1, type Polygonal (3), 255 topogeoms 
 Deploy: public.countries.topogeom 

(1 row) 

In return, the function will print out the topology metadata (ID, SRID, and precision), the number of topology elements of each type, the number of layers, their ID, the geometry type, and the number of features in each layer.

Topology metadata can also be retrieved individually...