Tag: PostGIS

PostGIS tips: Working with geometry columns and projection systems

I put these docs together in an effort to help my colleagues at the City of Boston get acquainted with PostGIS. You can find Part 1 here. This section walks through adding a geometry column to a dataset, dealing with projection systems, and getting x/y values from a geometry column. Addin...

PostGIS tips: Where to get started

In an effort to help my colleagues get acquainted with PostGIS, I put together the introduction materials below. The materials cover what PostGIS is, when/why to use it in our work, and examples of various functionality. As Postgres and PostGIS are open source, and we work in the public domain, w...