Paolo Corti & Pedro Wightman 
PostGIS Cookbook 
Store, organize, manipulate, and analyze spatial data

Post GIS is a spatial database that integrates the advanced storage and analysis of vector and raster data, and is remarkably flexible and powerful. Post GIS provides support for geographic objects to the Postgre SQL object-relational database and is currently the most popular open source spatial databases.

If you want to explore the complete range of Post GIS techniques and expose related extensions, then this book is for you.

This book is a comprehensive guide to Post GIS tools and concepts which are required to manage, manipulate, and analyze spatial data in Post GIS. It covers key spatial data manipulation tasks, explaining not only how each task is performed, but also why. It provides practical guidance allowing you to safely take advantage of the advanced technology in Post GIS in order to simplify your spatial database administration tasks. Furthermore, you will learn to take advantage of basic and advanced vector, raster, and routing approaches along with the concepts of data maintenance, optimization, and performance, and will help you to integrate these into a large ecosystem of desktop and web tools.

By the end, you will be armed with all the tools and instructions you need to both manage the spatial database system and make better decisions as your project’s requirements evolve.