Brief Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Cover Illustration

1. Learning PostGIS

Chapter 1. What is a spatial database?

Chapter 2. Geometry types

Chapter 3. Organizing spatial data

Chapter 4. Geometry functions

Chapter 5. Relationships between geometries

Chapter 6. Spatial reference system considerations

Chapter 7. Working with real data

2. Putting PostGIS to Work

Chapter 8. Techniques to solve spatial problems

Chapter 9. Performance tuning

3. Using PostGIS with other tools

Chapter 10. Enhancing SQL with add-ons

Chapter 11. Using PostGIS in web applications

Chapter 12. Using PostGIS in a desktop environment

Chapter 13. PostGIS raster

Appendix A. Additional resources

Appendix B. Installing, compiling, and upgrading

Appendix C. SQL primer

Appendix D. PostgreSQL features

Index

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings