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Arch: An official pacman-package is available. Install the package as root, using: pacman -S postgis OpenSuse: In order to use the openSuse repositories for geospatial applications, enable the Geo-repository as root: zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/openSUS...

This guide is explicitly for PostgreSQL 9.1 or higher on linux machines. It uses the postgres extensions-feature that will greatly improve the import of extensions to an existing postgres-installation. If you have to work with an older version of postgres, please refer to the official documentations...

To create a new empty database, run as postgres-user: createdb [yourdatabase] Connect to the database with a psql-session: psql -d [yourdatabase] In the psql-session run: CREATE EXTENSION postgis; CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology; to create the neccesary geospatial extensions. Once thi...

In this example we will set up a geospatial database, import data from 2 different sources, and view the results in an application called QGIS. This guide is explicitly written for linux-machines, if you operate on another platform, some commands or paths might not work as expected. In order to vie...