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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Getting ready
Download a GeoNames dataset. At the time of writing, you can find some of the datasets ready to be downloaded from http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/. You may decide which dataset you want to use; if you want to follow this recipe, it will be enough to download the Italian dataset, IT.zip (included in the book's dataset, in the chp08 directory).
If you want to download the full GeoNames dataset, you need to download the allCountries.zip file; it will take longer as it is about 250 MB.