Natural Earth PostGIS database

⚠️ This repository is no longer maintained by Lukas Martinelli.

A PostGIS Docker container populated with Natural Earth data. You can use this to quickly spin up a PostGIS database containing the full Natural Earth data set to get started with analysis.

Requirements

Make sure you have installed Docker for your platform.

• Install on OSX
• Install on Windows

Usage

Now you need to start the prepared Docker container and wait until it is ready.

docker run -p 5432:5432 lukasmartinelli/natural-earth-postgis

You can also use the Kitematic GUI and search for natural earth postgis to spin up the container.

Connect

You can now use psql or any other PostgreSQL client to connect to the PostGIS database naturalearth. Use the user naturalearth with the password naturalearth.

psql --host localhost --user naturalearth --db naturalearth --password

Setting	Value
Database	naturalearth
User	naturalearth
Password	naturalearth

Run alongside existing PostgreSQL

If you run the container on your local host and there is already PostgreSQL database running you can map the container to a different port.

docker run -p 5433:5432 lukasmartinelli/natural-earth-postgis
psql --host localhost --port 5433 --user naturalearth --db naturalearth --password

Postgis Editor

To get started analyzing the data I recommend to use postgis-studio.