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Spatial and Geographic objects for PostgreSQL
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- PostGIS 3.1 (HTML) (PDF) (EPUB)
- PostGIS 3.0 (HTML) (PDF) (EPUB)
- PostGIS 2.5 (HTML) (PDF) (EPUB)
- PostGIS 2.4 (HTML) (PDF) (EPUB)
- PostGIS 2.3 EOL (HTML) (PDF) (EPUB)
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- PostGIS 3.2
- Translated versions are a work in progress and ordered by completeness of the translation
- EPUB: en
- Reference Section
- Raster Reference Section
- Topology Section
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Tutorials
Books
PostGIS In Action - 3rd Edition (PostGIS 2.5, 3-3.1 and highlights of upcoming 3.2, PostgreSQL 11-13) (664 pages) Released August 2021 English
PostGIS 2 Analisis Espacial Avanzado 2nd - (PostGIS 2.4, PostgreSQL 10) released Sept 2018 Spanish
- PostGIS Cookbook 2nd Released March 2018 (PostgreSQL 9.6) English
- Mastering PostGIS - covers PostGIS 2.2, released in May 2017, English
- PostGIS Essentials - (PostGIS 2.2 released April 2015)
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Web Sites
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