PostGIS

This toolkit allows PostgreSQL to be used as a geographic information system (GIS).

A geographic information system is a system designed for storing, manipulating, analyzing, managing, and presenting geographical data.

PostGIS simply integrates all these features and allows scientists to store geographical data inside its relational database system.

What is new in this release:

• This is a minor release which fixes some bugs, contains speed improvements and additional features.

What is new in version 2.1.7 / 1.5.8 / 2.2.0dev / 1.5.9SVN:

• This is a minor release which fixes some bugs, contains speed improvements and additional features.

What is new in version 2.1.5 / 1.5.8 / 2.2.0dev / 1.5.9SVN:

• This is a minor release which fixes some bugs, contains speed improvements and additional features.

What is new in version 2.0.3:

• This is a bug fix release, addressing issues that have been filed since the 2.0.2 release.

What is new in version 2.0.1:

• More detailed exception message from topology editing functions.
• Improved build dependencies
• Speedup of ST_BuildArea, ST_MakeValid and ST_GetFaceGeometry.
• Added lwgeom_normalize in LIBLWGEOM for more stable testing.

Requirements:

• PostgreSQL 8.4 or higher