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Purpose of BostonGIS

BostonGIS is a testbed for GIS and Web Mapping solutions utilizing open source, freely available and/or open gis technologies. We will be using mostly Boston, Massachusetts data to provide mapping and spatial database examples.

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GIS: Geographic Information System

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a system for creating, storing, analyzing, managing and presenting spatial data and its associated attributes. It is a system used in scientific investigations (such as weather analysis and environmental effects), resource management, asset management (such as property), cartography and routing.

In the past GIS consisted of physical maps such as hand-drawn or Sanborn maps. Today's GIS is mostly electronic with data being digitized from physical maps and autogeneration of maps using LIDAR, GPS, and standard photography.

The new face of GIS has also merged with standard database management, as we see with spatial relational databases. The next trend in GIS is the folding of n-dimensional and time-dimensional data.

I predict in the future we will see the rise of other non-standard uses of GIS technology such as in the analysis of protein folding, brain activity, physical phenomena and other space containing structures that do not have earthly coordinates.



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PostGIS, pgRouting, and PostgreSQL Tutorials
Part 1: Getting Started With PostGIS: An almost Idiot's Guide more ...
pgRouting: Loading OpenStreetMap with Osm2Po and route querying more ...
Part 1: Getting Started With PostGIS: An almost Idiot's Guide (PostGIS 2.0) more ...
OSCON 2009: Tips and Tricks for Writing PostGIS Spatial Queries more ...
PGCon2009: PostGIS 1.4, PostgreSQL 8.4 Spatial Analysis Queries, Building Geometries, Open Jump more ...
PLR Part 3: PL/R and Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) RGDAL more ...
PostGIS Nearest Neighbor: A Generic Solution - Much Faster than Previous Solution more ...
Solving the Nearest Neighbor Problem in PostGIS more ...
PLR Part 2: PL/R and PostGIS more ...
PLR Part 1: Up and Running with PL/R (PLR) in PostgreSQL: An almost Idiot's Guide more ...
Part 3: PostGIS Loading Data from Non-Spatial Sources more ...
Part 2: Introduction to Spatial Queries and SFSQL with PostGIS more ...
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