I love short and consist install instructions. I know this is a MySQL blog but our good friend PostGreSQL has a great GIS library. This is what I learned upgrading our PostGIS system to GIS 1.5. Much thanks to Jeremy Tunnell for give this document it’s start.

Start with CentOS 5.6 x86_64 basic install.

Add the PostgreSQL Yum repository to your system.

$ wget http://yum.pgrpms.org/reporpms/9.0/pgdg-centos-9.0-2.noarch.rpm
 $ rpm -i pgdg-centos-9.0-2.noarch.rpm

Another location for these is DAG. I have to tried these so your results may very.

You will need to exclude the packages CentOS provide by added two lines to the BASE and UPDATE sections of /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo. They are:

exclude=postgresql*
exclude=geos*

You you are ready to install the needed packages. This includes proj version 4 and geos version 3.

 $ yum install postgresql90-contrib.x86_64
 $ yum …

OpenSQLCamp was a huge success! I took videos of most of the sessions (we only had 3 video cameras, and 4 rooms, and 2 sessions were not recorded). Unfortunately, I was busy doing administrative stuff for opensqlcamp for the opening keynote and first 15 minutes of the session organizing, and when I got to the planning board, it was already full….so I was not able to give a session.

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