4 Working with real data
This chapter covers
- PostGIS backup and restore utilities
- Utilities for downloading and uncompressing files
- Importing and exporting Esri shapefile data
- Importing and exporting vector data using ogr2ogr
- Querying external data using foreign data wrappers
- Importing and exporting raster data
- PostGIS raster output functions
In this chapter we’ll look at how you can load real-world data into PostGIS and export it. We’ll point you to specific data sources for the examples in this chapter, but if you’re interested in other sources, see the list we’ve compiled in appendix A. We encourage you to explore on your own and report back on any discoveries of interesting data sources at our Manning author forum: www.manning.com/obe3 ...
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