PostGIS - Working With Geospatial Data in PostgreSQL

In this article, we are going to show how to get started with Geospatial data in PostgreSQL. More specifically, we are going to learn how to store spatial information (e.g. Coordinates in a map) and how we can index and perform searches on this data (e.g. Find all coordinates inside a given area). Installing PostGIS PostGIS is an extension of standard PostgreSQL that allows us to work with…