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PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational
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database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server,
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allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information
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systems (GIS), much like ESRI's SDE or Oracle's Spatial extension. PostGIS
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follows the OpenGIS "Simple Features Specification for SQL" and has been
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certified as compliant with the "Types and Functions" profile.
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PostGIS/PostgreSQL includes the following functionality:
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* Simple Features as defined by the OpenGIS Consortium (OGC)
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* Support for Well-Known Text and Well-Known Binary representations of GIS
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objects
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* Fast spatial indexing using GiST
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* Geospatial analysis functions
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* PostgreSQL JDBC extension objects corresponding to the geometries
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* Support for OGC access functions as defined by the Simple Features
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Specification
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This is postgis 1.5, which is obsolete.
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