PostGIS

PostGIS ( ) is an open source software program that adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. PostGIS follows the Simple Features for SQL specification from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

Key facts

Software.developer: Refractions Research, Paul Ramsey, Dave Blasby, Mark Cave-Ayland, Regina Obe, Sandro Santilli, Olivier Courtin, Nicklas Avén, Bborie Park, Pierre Racine, Daniel Baston, Darafei Praliaskouski, Raúl Marín Rodríguez, Kevin Neufeld, Jeff Lounsbury, Chris Hodgson, Jorge Arévalo, Mateusz Loskot, Norman Vine, Carl Anderson, Ralph Mason, Klaus Foerster, Bruno Wolff III, Markus Schaber
Software.operating_system: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, POSIX-compliant systems
Software.genre: Geographic information system
Software.license: GNU General Public License (version 2 or later)
Software.name: PostGIS
Software.logo: PostGIS logo.png
Software.logo size: 150px

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Source code

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This file is here to play nicely with modern code repository facilities. Actual readme is here. Build status and continuous integration: See the GitHub Actions workflows, OSGeo Woodie pipelines, and the CI scripts in the ci/ directory. Developer setup notes are in doc/development. If you don't already have an OSGeo account, you can get one here. An OSGeo account will allow you to participate in translating both the PostGIS workshop and PostGIS documentation and also submit bug tickets. Official chat room is the postgis:osgeo.org Matrix room, also bridged to the irc://irc.libera.chat/ postgis IRC channel (web client may be useful) If you would like to contribute to this project, please refer to our contributing guidelines. Developer workflow, build, test, release, and documentation notes live in doc/development.

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