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
As in the previous recipe, we will start off by loading our data. Our data is the address records from Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA. If you loaded this in the previous recipe, there is no need to reload the data. If you have not loaded the data yet, run the following command:
shp2pgsql -s 3734 -d -i -I -W LATIN1 -g the_geom CUY_ADDRESS_POINTS chp04.knn_addresses | psql -U me -d postgis_cookbook
As this dataset may take a while to load, you can alternatively load a subset using the following command:
shp2pgsql -s 3734 -d -i -I -W LATIN1 -g the_geom CUY_ADDRESS_POINTS_subset chp04.knn_addresses | psql -U me -d postgis_cookbook
The address points will serve as a proxy for our building structures. However, to align our structure to ...