Show HN: PostGIS query editor and visualizer

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7 pointsmorgenkaffee3 comments

Both OpenJump & QGIS ostensibly cover this use case but not in a way that promotes a smooth REPL-like workflow.

So this could be quite useful for PostGIS developers; For instance, often i just need to know how "rough" is the approximate bounding box drawn by PostGIS; a visual comparison with the region's actual borders is often the best and most efficient way to learn this.

Do you have any plans related to visualization of clusters (i.e. cluster of places, cities, etc.) and any additional information (i.e. shapes for display radius or bounds of cluster)?

No not really. The goal is to stay simple - just display polygons, linestrings, points and their associated metadata. It is really meant for prototyping SQL queries quickly with immediate feedback.

What might make sense is to support to display several SQL queries at once. So you can show the the objects within a cluster and the cluster bounds at the same time.

For complex visualizations you can use e.g. QGIS with PostGIS as data source. I used PostGIS editor before to prototype clustering SQL queries. I assign cluster values as attributes and inspect them like this.

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