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PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL
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object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables"
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the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial
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database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRI's
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SDE or Oracle's Spatial extension. PostGIS follows the OpenGIS
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"Simple Features Specification for SQL" and has been certified as
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compliant with the "Types and Functions" profile.
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