About Windows Experimental Binaries
As many people know who have tried to build PostGIS binaries under windows, its a time consuming process to set up the environment and generally is rocket science when compared to building under Linux. To encourage our vast and growing community of windows users to test our alpha, beta, and release candidate releases of PostGIS, we will be providing experimental binaries. These will just contain the dlls and exes you need to get going with a ReadMe.txt file to explain where to put the binaries and how to load up your database and a sample batch script to create a postgis enabled database. These are more for experienced or adventurous PostGIS users, who are too short on time or patience to build thier own binaries, but want to experiment with bleeding edge PostGIS technology.
For those who want to experience the joys and frustrations of compiling under Windows -- please refer to Compiling PostGIS under Windows.
If you run into any issues using these or come across bugs, please submit these to the PostGIS bug tracker and if you have questions, please post to the PostGIS newsgroup .
Below are links to current release candidates and beta binaries of PostGIS and WKT Raster for windows. For each please refer to the ReadMe.txt packaged with each.
PostGIS ESRI Shapefile GUI
This is packaged as a stand-alone ready to be copied into your PgAdmin III install (or run stand-alone). It will appear as a plugin under PgAdminIII and will automatically fill in the credentials of the database you have selected in PgAdmin III.
It has support for both importing into geometry and geography tables. Note: The geography import feature works only against a PostGIS 1.5 or higher databases.
PostGIS Experimental Binaries
PostGIS 2.0.0SVN coming soon
PostGIS 1.5.0 official binaries have been released. This is the latest of the stable branch of PostGIS 1.5 (PostGIS 1.5.1SVN) As of March 10, 2010
More details about what has been fixed/added can be found at PostGIS 1.4.2 and PostGIS 1.5.1 fixes , What is new in PostGIS 1.5, and PostGIS geography support
- For PostgreSQL 8.3 -- contains GEOS 3.2, Proj 4.6.1, PostGIS 1.5.1SVN, Loader/Dumper including GUI
- For PostgreSQL 8.4 -- contains GEOS 3.2, Proj 4.6.1, PostGIS 1.5.1SVN, Loader/Dumper including GUI
Please note the PostGIS 1.4.1 has now been officially released. This is the latest of the stable branch of PostGIS 1.4 (PostGIS 1.4.2SVN) As of February 6, 2010
Full details of what has been patched since PostGIS 1.4.1 release can be found at PostGIS 1.4.2 fixes
- For PostgreSQL 8.3 -- contains GEOS 3.2.0, Proj 4.6.1, PostGIS 1.4.2
- For PostgreSQL 8.4 -- contains GEOS 3.2.0, Proj 4.6.1, PostGIS 1.4.2
WKT Raster Experimental Binaries (for PostGIS 1.4+, PostGIS 1.5+) As Of February 12th, 2010
For details about the WKT Raster project check out WKT Raster and What is planned and completed for the WKT Raster 0.1.6 milestone?
Maintainers
Leo Hsu
Regina Obe