OpenGeo Suite 4.1.1 User Manual
4.1.1
  • OpenGeo Suite User Manual
  • What’s new in 4.1.1
    • 4.1.1
    • 4.1
  • Installation
    • New installation
    • Upgrading
    • Additional components
  • Introduction
    • What is OpenGeo Suite?
    • Dashboard
    • OpenGeo Suite extensions
    • Recipes
    • Sample Data
    • More Information
  • Building web maps
    • Creating a Basic Web Map
  • Web cartography
    • Rendering Transformations
  • Building complete web applications
    • Installing Boundless SDK
    • Creating and deploying apps with Boundless SDK
    • Application development with Boundless SDK GXP template
    • Application development with OpenLayers
  • Spatial processing and analysis
    • Introduction to Spatial Processing
    • Creating WPS processes with Java
    • Using WPS with OpenLayers and the Boundless SDK
    • Scripting
    • Creating a contour map with a WPS process
    • Process reference
  • Working with your data
    • Getting started with PostGIS
    • Data storage and management in PostGIS
    • Analyzing data with PostGIS
    • Database administration in PostGIS
    • Using Point Cloud
    • GeoServer Layer Importer
  • System administration
    • Using Mapmeter
    • Running OpenGeo Suite in Production
    • JVM settings
    • Setting up Tomcat Manager
    • Security
    • Backing up
    • Using virtual services
    • Tile caching
    • Clustering
  • Glossary
 
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Getting started with PostGIS¶

This section describes how to get started with the PostGIS database included in OpenGeo Suite—connecting to the database, loading data, and some basic SQL commands.

  • Connecting to PostgreSQL on Linux for the first time
    • Setting a password for the postgres user
    • Allowing local connections
  • Connecting to the PostgreSQL database with pgAdmin
    • Launching pgAdmin
    • Working with pgAdmin
  • Creating a spatial database
    • Creating a spatial database from the command line
  • Loading data into PostGIS from the Command Line
    • How It Works
    • Preparation
    • Loading data
    • Batch loading
  • Loading data into PostGIS with pgShapeloader
    • How it works
    • Preparation
    • Launching pgShapeloader
    • Loading data
  • Loading raster data into PostGIS from the Command Line
    • How It Works
    • Preparation
    • Loading data
    • Batch Loading
    • Creating Raster Tables in the Database
  • Publishing a PostGIS table in GeoServer
  • Basic SQL
    • SELECT queries

For detailed reference information, please refer to the PostGIS Documentation.

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