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Manre Aug 16, 2018

Amazing book! Complete and well-written, I will recommend it

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Erin Apr 18, 2018

Good book overall. Assumes working knowledge of Postgresql and geospatial concepts. As a postgresql DBA, I found that some of the recipes could be coded more efficiently. For example, using a foreign data wrapper to load and convert raw lat/lon into geospatial format in one step instead of two. Another example is storing both the numerical and geospatial lat/lon in a table. This is wasteful since the lat/lon can be retrieved by using st_x and st_y.Also, doesn't explain more advanced concepts like collections but shows how to use them to solve problems.I'd give it 5 stars if it had more efficient code and more explanation of advanced concepts instead of just recipies.

Amazon Customer Apr 17, 2019

I'd hoped to walk away from this book with a good sense of the general patterns for building solutions with PostGIS and Postgres. I guess I know more now than I did before but only from skating along with the code examples. The explanations that come along with them are pretty sparse. The bash scripts in particular are really poorly explained.

Luca Ferrari Feb 15, 2021

I don't want to be harsh, but the ebook version of the book is not easy to read at all. The choice of using images even for commands and their output makes the reading of the book impossuible on small screen readers like a kindle. The text only commands are poorly layed out.With regard to the content, even if this is a cookbook, I would prefer to see more explaination before every recipe and a better introduction to concepts. This could be done without loosing the practical orientation of a cookbook should have.I't sprobably one of the few books I'm not going to finish, mostly because it is really hard to read on the kindle.

PostGIS Cookbook: Store, organize, manipulate, and analyze spatial data , Second Edition

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