PostGIS Geospatial Development

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Enhance your geospatial data processing with expert guidance on PostGIS. This skill provides a comprehensive set of best practices, performance optimizations, and common pitfalls to avoid when working with spatial data in PostgreSQL. It covers everything from code styling and efficient indexing to debugging strategies and choosing the correct coordinate reference systems. Use this skill to write clean, maintainable, and highly performant geospatial queries, ensuring your application handles spatial operations correctly and efficiently.

Key Features

• Includes debugging techniques and patterns for creating idempotent, maintainable SQL migrations.
• Offers guidance on choosing the correct coordinate reference systems (SRID 4326, 3857, 4978) for various applications.
• Recommends effective indexing strategies (e.g., BRIN indexes) to improve query performance on large spatial datasets.
• Enforces best practices for code style, documentation, and data modeling, including standardized column naming (geom, geog).
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• Provides optimized alternatives for common PostGIS and SQL patterns, such as using KNN operators (<->) for distance calculations.

Use Cases

• Optimizing slow-performing geospatial queries in a PostgreSQL database.
• Writing clean, maintainable, and idempotent database migrations for a PostGIS-enabled application.
• Designing or refactoring a database schema for an application that stores and processes spatial data.