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Appendix A
PostGIS Raster Utilisation
A.1 Dependencies Installation
– PostgeSQL version 7.2 or higher.
– PostGIS version 1.3.5 or higher.
Other necessary component is GDAL as PostGIS Raster uses GDAL to driver for images conversion,
transformation, reprojection and connecting to raster files and Python loader:
– Python version 2.5 or higher.
– GDAL for Python version 1.6 or higher.
– GDAL PostGIS Raster Driver.
A.2 Installing and Configuring
A.2.1 Linux
PostGIS Raster is an extension of PostGIS and need to be installed separately. The last version of
PostGIS Raster can be downloaded here.
The next step is to configure PostGIS Raster by the following commands:
./configure --with-raster
make
sudo make install
A.2.2 Windows
Instructions can be found on this Web site. The option ’–with-raster’ should be added when
invoking configure scripts.
The full instructions about how to install and configure PostGIS Raster on Windows is available
here.
A.3 Creating Database
The following code will create a new PostGIS Raster database in PostgreSQL:
createdb
createlang plpgsql
psql -U -f postgis/postgis.sql -d
psql -U -f spatial_ref\_sys.sql -d
psql -U -f raster/rt_pg/rtpostgis.sql -d
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