I am making the plunge to get more informed with how to use PostGIS. It is pretty impressive so far. Here is a quick tutorial which shows you how to get started and loading in a shapefile to play around with some fun SQL querying. I assume a basic understanding of the linux command line and some basic SQL skills.
To get started in ubuntu 7.04 (should work in 7.10 and debian too):
$ sudo apt-get install postgis postgresql-8.1-postgis
Next we’ll start setting up the PostGIS environment.
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