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
We will import the firenews.csv file that stores a series of web news collected from various RSS feeds related to forest fires in Europe in the context of the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), available at http://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/.
For each news feed, there are attributes such as place name, size of the fire in hectares, URL, and so on. Most importantly, there are the x and y fields that give the position of the geolocalized news in decimal degrees (in the WGS 84 spatial reference system, SRID = 4326).
For Windows machines, it is necessary to install OSGeo4W, a set of open source geographical libraries that will allow the manipulation of the datasets. The link is: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/
In addition, ...