The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development. ~ https://www.osgeo.org/about/ There are a number of projects that have joined OSGeo Community or have been through the …
Continue reading SQL Spatial – OSGeo Project, QGIS, and GDAL
In this blog series we will dig into spatial data available in SQL Server. This second post will be creating spatial data manually. The three base objects will be reviewed and see different examples of queries. Let’s start by opening up SSMS and connecting to a SQL Server instance that is 2008 or higher. Spatial …
Continue reading SQL Spatial – Creating spatial data from scratch
In this blog series we will dig into spatial data available in SQL Server. This first post will be on the data types in SQL Server that allow storing spatial data. Spatial data has many different names. Geographic information, geospatial data, GIS, map data, or location each one generally refers to the same thing. SQL …
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