Import Shapefile in Postgresql – shp2pgsql

Import Shapefile in Postgresql directly by command line tool. Shapefile is a data vector file, which stores GeoSpatial Data. PostGreSql Database support Spatial or GIS data. As shapefile is just a representation of Geo Data, while postgresql is database which support many GIS functionalities as like finding nearest neighbour, distance calculation from one point to … Continue reading “Import Shapefile in Postgresql – shp2pgsql”

Export shapefile from postgreSQL – pgsql2shp – Command line or Php

Is your GIS data stored in postgreSQL Database? Are you looking to export that postgreSQL data in shapefile and further use in different way. It is directly possible with Pgsql2shp command which is directly available with postgreSQL system. In this article you will directly understand the way to export Shapefile from postgreSQL with pgsql2shp tool. Pgsql2shp … Continue reading “Export shapefile from postgreSQL – pgsql2shp – Command line or Php”

Embed Google map with 2 or more Markers for Web pages

Embed Google map with 2 or more Markers in html or for Web pages. Embedding a Google map in html is direct method, where you can directly find the link from Google Maps. Embedding map iframe links are useful in business websites, or locate branches location which can be directly featured and accessed through ones websites. … Continue reading “Embed Google map with 2 or more Markers for Web pages”

Election Map Benefits List – Types of GIS Election Map Create

As map is a one of great tool for analysis purpose, and so is useful for analysing the information of election by creating map. Election, is one of the most important activity that took place in country or state or at sub state level. In this post we will check Election Map Benefits List and Types … Continue reading “Election Map Benefits List – Types of GIS Election Map Create”

Adding Multiple Map Layers – Hide Show layer using Leaflet js

This article is about how you can make visible and invisible your layer with the help of checkbox on any base map. The base layer used here is OSM (Open street map), which is open source freely available map. With layers at the same time you can open up multiple data at once and make … Continue reading “Adding Multiple Map Layers – Hide Show layer using Leaflet js”

Create beautiful dynamic Legend map – Leafletjs TopoJson

In this article we are going to add legends to choropleth map with topojson Data using leaflet. Legends are the element of map that provides information about map with the help of symbols. Here symbol can be colour, shapes, figures etc. The choropleth map gives information using colours. Lets play around with : Create beautiful Legend … Continue reading “Create beautiful dynamic Legend map – Leafletjs TopoJson”

Create Heat map showing average household income – leaflet js GIS

First of all we must know what heat map is? A Heat Map is a way of representing the density or intensity value of point data by assigning a colour gradient to a raster where the cell colour is based on clustering of points or an intensity value. In this article i.e to Create Heat map … Continue reading “Create Heat map showing average household income – leaflet js GIS”

Read Parse Render TopoJSON file – Leaflet js

This article shows how to render topojson file data on OSM map with the help of d3 and Leaflet javascript library in the browser. Leaflet js is an open source small library to create interactive map. You may look over Getting Started with Leaflet js. TopoJSON is one of the GIS data structure which stores … Continue reading “Read Parse Render TopoJSON file – Leaflet js”

Add different base map layers using leaflet js

Leaflet is  small open source Javascript library to create a customised mapping solution. Leaflet plugin supports many types of map layer. In this article we have map layers as Google map, Open street map, Stamen map, Here map and Bing map layer. What is plugin? Plugin is software that is installed onto a program, enabling … Continue reading “Add different base map layers using leaflet js”

Convert Shapefile to TopoJSON

ESRI shapefile are the binary vector data storage format for storing the location, shape, and attributes of geographic features. It is stored as a set of related files and contains one feature class. Whereas TopoJSON (topological geospatial data) is an extension of GeoJSON that encodes topology. The necessity of conversion is to reduce the size … Continue reading “Convert Shapefile to TopoJSON”