Difference between revisions of "Setting up postGIS"

Revision as of 20:40, 2 October 2008

• Download postGIS source code from http://postgis.refractions.net/download/
• Extract and build

  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install
  

• Install the proj projection library from | http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-4.6.1.tar.gz
• Extract and build

  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install
  

• Install the GOES gemoetry engine from | http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/
• Extract and build

  [extract bzip2 -d filename]
  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install
  

• Install postGIS for Ubuntu from synaptic
• Create a DB in postgreSQL, and install postGIS

  su postgres
  psql -h ubi.cs.washington.edu -W -d jobDB -U jobAdmin
       CREATE DATABASE "postgis"
         WITH OWNER = "jobAdmin"
              ENCODING = 'UTF8';
  psql -d postgis -f /usr/share/postgresql-8.3-postgis/lwpostgis.sql
  

• Add shape files to DB

  cd /projects/ubicomp99/postgis/bus/data
  # shp2pgsql -D myshape.shp mytable mytestdb | psql mytestdb
  # shp2pgdwl -s [washington coordinate plane] [shape file] [tablename] | psql -d [dbname]
  shp2pgsql -s 2926 Busstop busstop | psql -d postgis
  shp2pgsql -s 2926 routes busroute | psql -d postgis
  shp2pgsql -s 2926 moving_stops moving_stops | psql -d postgis