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 GDAL
As an alternative approach to the previous recipe, you will import a CSV file to PostGIS using the ogr2ogr GDAL command and the GDAL OGR virtual format. The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats. OGR is the related library that provides similar capabilities for vector data formats.
This time, as an extra step, you will import only a part of the features in the file and you will reproject them to a different spatial reference system.