I am happy to report, that the final proof of the PostGIS in Action E-Book got released today
and the printed version is scheduled for release Aprill 11th, 2011 and should be available on Amazon and other locations around then. The other e-Reader formats will come after that.
You can buy from here or download the two free chapters, if you haven't already.
Each hard-copy purchase comes with a free E-Book version. There is a coupon in the back of the book when you get it ot get the E-Book versions.
Yes, I know it's been a really really long time.
On the bright side, we produced twice as much content as we had set out to do and that was with keeping things as concise as we
could get away with, still managing to cover more than we set out to cover, and stripping out as many unnecessary words as we could muster.
So 520 pages and almost 2 years later, this is where we are.
Two free chapters and accompanying code for all chapters
The two free chapters we selectively picked because we thought they would be most beneficial to newcomers and people new to relational databases.
So the free chapters are:
- Chapter 1: What is a spatial database? Which provides a fast paced history of PostGIS, PostgreSQL, Spatial Databases and moves into
an even faster journey into converting flat file restaurant locations to spatial point geometries, loading in an ESRI shapefile of roads. Then shows you how to write standard
spatial queries and render the results.
- Appendix C: SQL Primer -- goes through querying information_schemas, the common points of writing SQL statements and the finer points of using Windowing constructs and common table expressions as well
as a brief overview of how PostgreSQL stacks up with other relational database (SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL, Firebird) in SQL features.
- All the chapter code and accompaying data. It's a bit hefty at 57 MB.
You can get a more detailed listing of all the chapters from the PostGIS in Action book site.
We'd like to thank all those who supported us through this long and unpredictable journey. Hopefully we'll have several more, though hopefully
a bit less nerve-racking than this first one.