August 27th, 2008
PostGIS Basics - Part 2 - Hello WorldAugust 27th 9:06 PM
A quick hello world
There are a couple of things you must know about PostGIS and GIS in general before you can work with them.
First, PostGIS keeps a table of spatially enabled columns with metadata that you must update via built in functions (called geometry_columns). Consult the command reference for details, but I used the following to set up a POINT enabled column:
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August 26th, 2008
Transforming an address into Latitude and Longitude using PHP and curlAugust 26th 8:03 PM
Step 1 - Get a key
Yahoo offers a service that will translate any address (US only) into a latitude/longitude pair for free, for up to 5000 queries/day. The first thing you need to do is visit Yahoo and sign up for an api key: Yahoo API.
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