March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
584 pages
14h 31m
English
book
PostGIS Cookbook - Second Edition
by Stephen Vincent Mather, Pedro Wightman, Bborie Park, Thomas Kraft, Mayra Zurbarán, Paolo Corti
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Importing nonspatial tabular data (CSV) using PostGIS functions
There are a couple of alternative approaches to importing a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file, which stores attributes and geometries in PostGIS. In this recipe, we will use the approach of importing such a file using the PostgreSQL COPY command and a couple of PostGIS functions.