PostGIS Cookbook - Second Edition

PostGIS Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Pedro Wightman, Bborie Park, Stephen Vincent Mather, Thomas Kraft, Mayra Zurbarán

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PostGIS Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Pedro Wightman, Bborie Park, Stephen Vincent Mather, Thomas Kraft, Mayra Zurbarán

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Overview of this book

PostGIS is a spatial database that integrates the 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. If you want to explore the complete range of PostGIS techniques and expose related extensions, then this book is for you. This book is a comprehensive guide to PostGIS tools and concepts which are required to manage, manipulate, and analyze spatial data in PostGIS. It covers 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, and 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.

Title Page

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

Free Chapter

Moving Data In and Out of PostGIS

Introduction

Importing nonspatial tabular data (CSV) using PostGIS functions

Importing nonspatial tabular data (CSV) using GDAL

Importing shapefiles with shp2pgsql

Importing and exporting data with the ogr2ogr GDAL command

Handling batch importing and exporting of datasets

Exporting data to a shapefile with the pgsql2shp PostGIS command

Importing OpenStreetMap data with the osm2pgsql command

Importing raster data with the raster2pgsql PostGIS command

Importing multiple rasters at a time

Exporting rasters with the gdal_translate and gdalwarp GDAL commands

Structures That Work

Introduction

Using geospatial views

Using triggers to populate the geometry column

Structuring spatial data with table inheritance

Extending inheritance – table partitioning

Normalizing imports

Normalizing internal overlays

Using polygon overlays for proportional census estimates

Working with Vector Data – The Basics

Introduction

Working with GPS data

Fixing invalid geometries

GIS analysis with spatial joins

Simplifying geometries

Measuring distances

Merging polygons using a common attribute

Computing intersections

Clipping geometries to deploy data

Simplifying geometries with PostGIS topology

Working with Vector Data – Advanced Recipes

Introduction

Improving proximity filtering with KNN

Improving proximity filtering with KNN – advanced

Rotating geometries

Improving ST_Polygonize

Translating, scaling, and rotating geometries – advanced

Detailed building footprints from LiDAR

Creating a fixed number of clusters from a set of points

Calculating Voronoi diagrams

Working with Raster Data

Introduction

Getting and loading rasters

Working with basic raster information and analysis

Performing simple map-algebra operations

Combining geometries with rasters for analysis

Converting between rasters and geometries

Processing and loading rasters with GDAL VRT

Warping and resampling rasters

Performing advanced map-algebra operations

Executing DEM operations

Sharing and visualizing rasters through SQL

Working with pgRouting

Introduction

Startup – Dijkstra routing

Loading data from OpenStreetMap and finding the shortest path using A*

Calculating the driving distance/service area

Calculating the driving distance with demographics

Extracting the centerlines of polygons

Into the Nth Dimension

Introduction

Importing LiDAR data

Performing 3D queries on a LiDAR point cloud

Constructing and serving buildings 2.5D

Using ST_Extrude to extrude building footprints

Creating arbitrary 3D objects for PostGIS

Exporting models as X3D for the web

Reconstructing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) image footprints with PostGIS 3D

UAV photogrammetry in PostGIS – point cloud

UAV photogrammetry in PostGIS – DSM creation

PostGIS Programming

Introduction

Writing PostGIS vector data with Psycopg

Writing PostGIS vector data with OGR Python bindings

Writing PostGIS functions with PL/Python

Geocoding and reverse geocoding using the GeoNames datasets

Geocoding using the OSM datasets with trigrams

Geocoding with geopy and PL/Python

Importing NetCDF datasets with Python and GDAL

PostGIS and the Web

Introduction

Creating WMS and WFS services with MapServer

Creating WMS and WFS services with GeoServer

Creating a WMS Time service with MapServer

Consuming WMS services with OpenLayers

Consuming WMS services with Leaflet

Consuming WFS-T services with OpenLayers

Developing web applications with GeoDjango – part 1

Developing web applications with GeoDjango – part 2

Developing a web GPX viewer with Mapbox

Maintenance, Optimization, and Performance Tuning

Introduction

Organizing the database

Setting up the correct data privilege mechanism

Backing up the database

Using indexes

Clustering for efficiency

Optimizing SQL queries

Migrating a PostGIS database to a different server

Replicating a PostGIS database with streaming replication

Geospatial sharding

Paralellizing in PosgtreSQL

Using Desktop Clients

Introduction

Adding PostGIS layers – QGIS

Using the Database Manager plugin – QGIS

Adding PostGIS layers – OpenJUMP GIS

Running database queries – OpenJUMP GIS

Adding PostGIS layers – gvSIG

Adding PostGIS layers – uDig

Introduction to Location Privacy Protection Mechanisms

Introduction

Adding noise to protect location data

Creating redundancy in geographical query results

References

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Introduction

There are several ways to write PostGIS programs, and in this chapter we will see a few of them. You will mainly use the Python language throughout this chapter. Python is a fantastic language with a plethora of GIS and scientific libraries that can be combined with PostGIS to write awesome geospatial applications.

If you are new to Python, you can quickly get productive with these excellent web resources:

The official Python tutorial at http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/
The popular Dive into Python book at http://www.diveintopython.net/

You can combine Python with some excellent and popular libraries, such as:

Psycopg: This is the most complete and popular Python DB API implementation for PostgreSQL; see http://initd.org/psycopg/
GDAL: Used to unchain the powerful GDAL library in your Python scripts; see http://www.gdal.org/gdal_tutorial.html
requests: This is a handy Python standard library to manage HTTP stuff, such as opening URLs
simplejson: This is a simple and fast JSON encoder...

PostGIS Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Pedro Wightman, Bborie Park, Stephen Vincent Mather, Thomas Kraft, Mayra Zurbarán

PostGIS Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Pedro Wightman, Bborie Park, Stephen Vincent Mather, Thomas Kraft, Mayra Zurbarán

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