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Mastering PostGIS

You're reading from   Mastering PostGIS Modern ways to create, analyze, and implement spatial data

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784391645
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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George Silva George Silva
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

1. Importing Spatial Data FREE CHAPTER 2. Spatial Data Analysis 3. Data Processing - Vector Ops 4. Data Processing - Raster Ops 5. Exporting Spatial Data 6. ETL Using Node.js 7. PostGIS – Creating Simple WebGIS Applications 8. PostGIS Topology 9. pgRouting

The conceptual model


Before we start working with topology, we need to discuss the key concepts behind the PostGIS topological data model. PostGIS topology implementation is based on ISO standard 13249 - Information technology - Database languages - SQL multimedia and application packages - Part 3: Spatial. The standard name is often abbreviated as ISO SQL/MM. This standard defines two data models for topology: TopoGeometry and TopoNetwork; PostGIS implements only the former.

In this model, there are three kinds of elements/primitives used to compose geospatial features: nodes, edges, and faces.

Nodes are point features. They can exist on their own (isolated nodes) or serve as connection points for linear features (the edges). For example, this is a Czech-Polish-Slovak tripoint near Jaworzynka village, which contains a node and three edges:

An example of topological data: a node and three edges

In topology, only one node can appear for a specified coordinate pair - if there are more nodes in...

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