Use ogr2ogr (in GDAL framework) to convert from ESRI Shapefile to PostGIS. The tool will insert the data.
Example command:
/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/2.1/Programs/ogr2ogr -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"dbname=napote user=napote host=localhost" ~/suomenkunnat.shp -nln finnish_municipalities -s_srs EPSG:3067 -t_srs "+proj=latlong +datum=WGS84 +axis=neu +wktext"
Options:
-f "PostgreSQL"set the output format to postgres insertPG:"database connection"defines the pg connection to use-nln tablenamesets the target table name-s_srssource SRS of the Shapefile (like EPSG:3067 for Finnish materials)-t_srstarget SRS (WGS84, the+axis=neuflips x/y)
Geometry for Finland was generated with QGIS by combining all counties and dissolving them with the vector tool. The resulting area is taken with buffer (0.05 tolerance).
- Source: Natural Earth Data http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/10m/cultural/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.zip
- License: Free to use public domain (http://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)
- Generated GeoJSON from that data containing country code, spatial data and english names using script https://github.com/datasets/geo-countries/tree/master/scripts.
- GeoJSON fields have been modified to match "country" table columns
- GeoJSON inserted into country table with command:
ogr2ogr -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"dbname=napote user=napote host=localhost" ne_10m_admin_0_cyprus.geojson -nln country -t_srs "+proj=latlong +datum=WGS84 +axis=enu +wktaext"
- GeoJSON original country codes did not match ISO3166-1-standard and duplicates have been replaced
- GeoJSON didn't have finnish or swedish country names, those have been added with a script
- This was converted into a migration SQL file
- Continent data from https://gist.github.com/hrbrmstr/91ea5cc9474286c72838
- License: MIT Licensed
- This was converted into a migration SQL file