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Querying Geospatial Data with Amazon Athena
Previously in this book, you saw how geospatial data can be stored and managed in the AWS cloud. In this chapter, we will explore the flexibility and power of using Amazon Athena to query and transform your features. Querying and performing spatial functions on geospatial datasets is typically the main reason why the geospatial data was kept in the first place. Asking questions about geospatial data can help answer your business questions with the extra dimension of location for additional insights.
This chapter will teach you how to configure and use SQL queries on AWS:
- The setup and configuration of Amazon Athena
- Geospatial data formats
- Spatial query structure
- Spatial functions
- Using Athena results ...
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