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PostGIS Cookbook

You're reading from   PostGIS Cookbook For web developers and software architects this book will provide a vital guide to the tools and capabilities available to PostGIS spatial databases. Packed with hands-on recipes and powerful concepts

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849518666
Length 484 pages
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

PostGIS Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Moving Data In and Out of PostGIS FREE CHAPTER 2. Structures that Work 3. Working with Vector Data – The Basics 4. Working with Vector Data – Advanced Recipes 5. Working with Raster Data 6. Working with pgRouting 7. Into the Nth Dimension 8. PostGIS Programming 9. PostGIS and the Web 10. Maintenance, Optimization, and Performance Tuning 11. Using Desktop Clients Index

Adding PostGIS layers – gvSIG


gvSIG is a GIS package developed for the Generalitat Valenciana (gv) in Spain. SIG is the Spanish equivalent of GIS. Intended for use all over the world, gvSIG is available in more than a dozen languages.

Installers, documentation, and more details for gvSIG can be found at the following website:

http://www.gvsig.org/web/

To download gvSIG, click on the latest version (gvSIG 2.0, as of this writing). The all-included version is recommended on the gvSIG site. Be careful while selecting the .exe or .bin versions; otherwise, you may download the program in a language that you don't understand.

Getting ready

Before we begin, we have to deal with the incompatibility between PostGIS 2.0 and gvSIG. Older functions that have been left out of PostGIS 2.0 are needed for this recipe. Luckily, dealing with incompatibility issues is a quick and easy fix when you perform the following steps:

  1. Search for legacy.sql in your PostgreSQL directory. It should be at the following location...

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