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Geospatial Analysis with SQL

You're reading from   Geospatial Analysis with SQL A hands-on guide to performing geospatial analysis by unlocking the syntax of spatial SQL

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835083147
Length 234 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Geospatial Analytics
2. Chapter 1: Introducing the Fundamentals of Geospatial Analytics FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Conceptual Framework for SQL Spatial Data Science – Geometry Versus Geography 4. Chapter 3: Analyzing and Understanding Spatial Algorithms 5. Chapter 4: An Overview of Spatial Statistics 6. Section 2: SQL for Spatial Analytics
7. Chapter 5: Using SQL Functions – Spatial and Non-Spatial 8. Chapter 6: Building SQL Queries Visually in a Graphical Query Builder 9. Chapter 7: Exploring PostGIS for Geographic Analysis 10. Chapter 8: Integrating SQL with QGIS 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the SQL query builder in QGIS

We have been building SQL queries in DB Manager thus far, but there is one more tool that is useful when writing SQL syntax in large datasets. In the SQL window (visible when you select the icon in the top-left menu), there is a SQL symbol located in the upper-left corner of the console. It opens with a vertical list of SQL prompts.

  1. Columns lists the actual columns in the database tables, which you can select using the dropdown on the far right in the Data section. Once you select a table, all of the columns in the dataset are displayed as follows:
Figure 8.1 – The SQL query builder inside the SQL window in QGI

Figure 8.1 – The SQL query builder inside the SQL window in QGI

  1. Where is populated when you select Columns’ values in the right-hand vertical section in Figure 8.2. The column value in the data column will populate and display the variables listed in the column of interest. In the example, values for landuse equal to residential will...
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