Appendix A. Additional resources

 

This appendix includes links to resources useful for PostGIS users of all walks of life. Some of these links we may have already covered in previous chapters, but they’re also listed here so you can have all of these resources in one place.

PostGIS-focused tutorials and sites

These lists present good tutorials as well as sites focused on PostGIS content.

Getting-started tutorials

Below is a compendium of tutorials accumulated over the years. We tried to list the most up-to-date ones first.

FOSS4G 2009 Sydney Australia— Introduction to PostGIS, by Mark Leslie, complete with sample data and instructions for viewing in uDig. http://revenant.ca/www/postgis/workshop/

BostonGIS— Part 1: Getting Started With PostGIS: An Almost Idiot’s Guide. Mostly geared to the Windows user, this covers how to install PostGIS and load data and offers quick-use examples. It’s still useful to Mac and Linux users because it covers a few basics about loading and using, which are pretty much the same across all OSes. http://www.bostongis.com/PrinterFriendly.aspx?content_name=postgis_tut01

OpenGeo’s Open Source Geostack tutorial— Includes setting up PostGIS, MapServer, GeoServer, and QuantumGIS and creating an application. Also includes a link to download the stack and tutorial data. http://workshops.opengeo.org/stack-intro/. For a PostGIS-specific tutorial, see http://workshops.opengeo.org/postgis-spatialdbtips/

Open source tools and offerings

Proprietary tools that support PostGIS

Places to get free vector data

Spatial reference systems resources