PostGIS - big-data-europe/README GitHub Wiki
| Website | http://postgis.net/ |
| Supported versions | 2.1 |
| Current responsible(s) | Yiannis Mouchakis @ NCSR-D -- [email protected] |
| Docker image(s) | bde2020/postgis |
| More info | https://github.com/big-data-europe/docker-postgis |
Short description
PostGIS is an open source software program that adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. PostGIS follows the Simple Features for SQL specification from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
Example usage
To run the PostGIS container issue
docker run --name postgis -p 5432:5432 bde2020/postgis
To keep data in a host directory run it as
docker run --name postgis -p 5432:5432 -v /path/to/data:/var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main bde2020/postgis
Scaling
Only single node support