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This toolkit allows PostgreSQL to be used as a geographic information system (GIS).

A geographic information system is a system designed for storing, manipulating, analyzing, managing, and presenting geographical data.

PostGIS simply integrates all these features and allows scientists to store geographical data inside its relational database system.

Here are some key features of "PostGIS":

· Support for GiST-based R-Tree spatial indexes
· Functions for analysis of GIS objects
· Functions for processing of GIS objects
· Smooth integration with PostgreSQL
· Documentation

Requirements:

· PostgreSQL 8.4 or higher

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· More detailed exception message from topology editing functions.
· Improved build dependencies
· Speedup of ST_BuildArea, ST_MakeValid and ST_GetFaceGeometry.
· Added lwgeom_normalize in LIBLWGEOM for more stable testing.

Via: PostGIS 2.0.2 / 1.5.8 / 2.1.0SVN / 1.5.9SVN