pgsql2shp -s 4326 -I <shapefile> <mytable> | psql -d <mydb>
where <shapefile> is the name of your shapefile, eg: myfile.shp <mytable> is the name of the POstgis table to create & populate <mydb> is the name of od the Postgis database (Postgres with Postgis installed) "-s 4326" tells pgsql to create a table for a shapefile with lat/long geometries, as in http://www.spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/4326/ HTH, Brent Wood --- On Sat, 12/31/11, Daniel Montenegro <dmontenegr...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Daniel Montenegro <dmontenegr...@gmail.com> Subject: [postgis-users] Geographic Coordinates To: "postgis-users" <postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net> Date: Saturday, December 31, 2011, 4:57 PM Hi there! How can I import a shape file with geographic coordinates to PostGIS via shp2pgsql? Thanks Daniel -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
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