[postgis-users] Newbie GIS/PostGIS Pointers

[Paragon Corporation]

Thanks guys for your support.  We  should have chapter 4 done this Monday
and once our editor looks at it it will probably go up the week after.

We are getting prepared for PgConf 2009.  The slides from that when we are
done with the conference should hopefully be useful to everyone here as
well.

Thanks,
Leo and Regina 

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Chris,

That's very helpful thanks!  I read the first chapter of Regina's book and
purchased the e-book version for the rest.  Been playing with Google Maps to
draw out my "zones" using their draw tools.  Now going to use the RSS feed
of those maps to get those geometries in a postgis database.   Moving in the
right direction, finding this GIS stuff very interesting.

Thanks Again,
Dustin



Christopher D. Kyle wrote:
> 
> dustinb wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm researching for an application which needs to store "zones" based 
>> on gps
>> points.   Not sure the shape of these yet, most likely a circle or
>> polygon. 
>> The system then needs to determine what zone a particular "location" 
>> (gps
>> point) is in.
>>
>> Can someone give me some direction as far as what terminology I 
>> should be learning and using, good beginner tutorials, and/or 
>> documentation a ogc/gis newbie should start with?
>>
>> In what I've got out of it so far I'll need to create polygons (or 
>> other
>> geometry) and use st_within function do determine if the point is in 
>> that geometry.  What I don't understand yet is how these polygons get 
>> created from lat/long data points.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Dustin
>>   
> Dustin, try checking out the first chapter of Regina Obe's upcoming 
> book on PostGIS, "PostGIS in Action".
> http://www.manning.com/obe/
> http://www.manning.com/obe/PostGIS_MEAPCH01.pdf
> Chapter 1 is a freebie and a good starting place. Regina is very 
> active on the PostGIS developers' list.
> 
> Another text I like is Gary Sherman's "Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet 
> with Open Source Tools". It is a very nice place to start if you are 
> new to GIS and want to stick with open source. It will give you an 
> idea of that tools to spend your time investigating further to meet 
> you specific requirements.
> http://www.pragprog.com/titles/gsdgis/desktop-gis
> 
> 
> Hope those help,
> Chris
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