SQL Basics for Spatial SQL: Importing Data to PostGIS

If you are looking for help loading a variety of geospatial data into PostGIS, then you have landed in the right place. This is a guide for my video below with further tutorials and guides. Special shout out to the team at Crunchy Data for their fantastic post on the topic. The Spatial SQL Book […]

SQL Basics for Spatial SQL: Basic Query Structure

This post serves as the guide for the first video in the Learn Spatial SQL series, focusing on SQL Basics for Spatial SQL, specifically Basic Query Structure: SELECT SELECT provides the basic query structure to return data from a table. This is the most foundational query structure in SQL when returning data from a table. […]

Spatial SQL Cookbook: Common GIS Analyses in Spatial SQL

One of the biggest challenges, at least for me, when getting started with spatial SQL is having a quick and easy reference to transfer your current GIS workflows into SQL. There are many amazing resources out there to expand this knowledge, but this guide is meant to be a really simple cookbook to start to […]

PostGIS and Geopandas

PostGIS and GeoPandas in Jupyter in 4 minutes

Take advantage of the speed of PostGIS along with the flexibility of Geopandas and Python in 4 minutes! Take a look at the video and follow along with these steps! The Spatial SQL Book – Available now! Check out my new book on Spatial SQL with 500+ pages to help you go from SQL novice […]

How to get started with spatial SQL

Mastering SQL fundamentals to get started with spatial SQL So you are interested in getting started with spatial SQL — that’s great! Getting started can seem overwhelming but in this post and others, I hope to take you through the different use cases for spatial SQL bit by bit.  One of the biggest challenges if you are working […]