Export Import GIS Shape File to Postgres or Postgis

For importing or ingesting GIS shapefile to a postgresql database we can use shp2pgsql  command, example:

 

shp2pgsql -s 4326 -c -D -I myshapefile dbtable | \
psql -d dbname -h localhost -p 5432 -U dbuser

 

In example above we convert or import the shapefile  (myshapefile) to dbtable in dbname database with a dbuser.

-s: SRID

-c: Creates a new table and populates it, default if you do not specify any options.

-D: Use postgresql dump format (defaults to sql insert statments).

-I:  Create a GiST index on the geometry column.

-h: database hostname

-p: database port name

-U: database user

 

For exporting a postgres table to shapefile we use pgsql2shp:

 

pgsql2shp -f “myshapefile” -h localhost -u dbuser dbname dbtable

 

-f: shape file name

-h: database hostname

-u: database user

 

 

 

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