Refractions Research, Paul Ramsey, Dave Blasby, Mark Cave-Ayland, Regina Obe, Sandro Santilli, Olivier Courtin, Nicklas Avén, Bborie Park, Pierre Racine, Daniel Baston, Darafei Praliaskouski, Raúl Marín Rodríguez, Kevin Neufeld, Jeff Lounsbury, Chris Hodgson, Jorge Arévalo, Mateusz Loskot, Norman Vine, Carl Anderson, Ralph Mason, Klaus Foerster, Bruno Wolff III, Markus Schaber
Initial release
April 19, 2001 (2001-04-19)
Stable release
3.4.2[1]
/ 8 February 2024; 3 months ago (8 February 2024)
Repository
git.osgeo.org/gitea/postgis/postgis
Operating system
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, POSIX-compliant systems
Type
Geographic information system
License
GNU General Public License (version 2 or later)
Website
postgis.net
PostGIS (/ˈpoʊstdʒɪs/POST-jis) is an open source software program that adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. PostGIS follows the Simple Features for SQL specification from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
PostGIS is implemented as a PostgreSQL external extension.[2]
raster. Since PostGIS 3, is a separate PostgreSQL extension called postgis_raster. SQL/MM Topology support - via PostgreSQL extension postgis_topology. Spatial...
across geodatabases. The following are a few of the functions built into PostGIS, a free geodatabase which is a PostgreSQL extension (the term 'geometry'...
sources. QGIS integrates with other open-source GIS packages, including PostGIS, GRASS GIS, SAGA GIS, and MapServer. Plugins written in Python or C++...
Group. Retrieved September 20, 2013. "PostGIS". postgis.net. December 18, 2023. Retrieved December 18, 2023. PostGIS extends the capabilities of the PostgreSQL...
Smallworld. Crunchy Certified PostGIS - Open Geospatial Consortium certified open source distribution of PostgreSQL with PostGIS from Crunchy Data. SensorUp...
supported by the popular OGR tool as of version 1.11 and PostGIS as of version 2.1.0. Given a GIS shape near coordinates latitude 0° and longitude 0°, a...
to SQLite, providing vector geodatabase functionality. It is similar to PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, and SQL Server with spatial extensions Simple Features...
software, including: Intergraph GE Global Transmission Office ArcGIS GEOMAP GIS GRASS GISPostGIS QGIS Chainage (also known as station references) in construction...
2015-02-25. "pg_tileserv for PostGIS". "ArcGIS 10.4 is here!". 18 February 2016. "What's new in ArcGIS Pro 1.2—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation". "Leaflet...
ST_Buffer function (PostGIS implementation) buffer function in turfjs BufferOp in JTS, the library at the foundation of many open-source GIS implementations...
simplifies geospatial work in Python without needing a spatial database like PostGIS Cartopy: streamlines map creation in matplotlib by enabling users to specify...
editing OpenGIS SFS compliant Geometry algorithms based on Java Topology Suite Many third party plugins exist (e.g. connecting to Postgis, Oracle database...
The PostgreSQL GiST implementation provides the indexing support for the PostGIS (geographic information system) and the BioPostgres bioinformatics system...
comparison of notable GIS software. To be included on this list, the software must have a linked existing article. The selection of GIS software is a non-trivial...
such as GeoTIFF, ECW, Mr. SID, JPEG, PNG, MRR Spatial Databases: Oracle, PostGIS, SQL Server, SQLite and GeoPackage Open Geospatial Consortium Web Services:...
MySQL offers support for precise object shapes. MonetDB/GIS extension for MonetDB. PostGIS extension for PostgreSQL, also supporting some of the SQL/MM...
cover states) that can be validated and corrected. Other systems, such as PostGIS, take a similar approach. A very different approach is to not store topological...
airports in Finland has been explained using the GIS software QGIS and pgRouting (an extension of PostGIS). pysochrone is a Python script and simple web...
Ingres, Microsoft SQL Server, MonetDB, MySQL, Oracle RDBMS, Teradata, PostGIS, SQL Anywhere and Vertica), SRIDs are used to uniquely identify the coordinate...
tool can convert VMAP format to standard GIS file formats such as SHAPE, PostGIS etc. 1991–1993: The National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) develops...
Development with MongoDB and Node". 2017. p. 24. Regina Obe and Leo Hsu. "PostGIS in Action, Third Edition". 2021. p. 100 Andy Matthews and Shane Gliser...
A geographic information system (GIS) consists of integrated computer hardware and software that store, manage, analyze, edit, output, and visualize geographic...
and geometry manipulations and offer various import and export formats. PostGIS is a prominent example; it is open source. MySQL also implements some spatial...
to SQLite, providing vector geodatabase functionality. It is similar to PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, and SQL Server with spatial extensions, although SQLite/SpatiaLite...
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