Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
In practice, I have found that it gets upset easily if there's even the slightest bit of corruption
or non-standard data in the shapefile you are trying to import. Despite its fragility, it remains
the most used tool by QGIS users to import data into their database.
You activate SPIT by clicking the small blue elephant icon on your QGIS toolbar as shown in
the following picture:
Figure 20: Activating SPIT
Once SPIT loads and displays its main interface, you should see the following:
Figure 21: SPIT Interface
The interface is fairly self-explanatory. The
PostgreSQL
connections
area is where you'll
find any connections to your SQL databases listed. The
Import options
are for specifying
things like the SRID of your data, and other options for the data import.
Your PostgreSQL connections list is shared between here and the main app. If you've
already created a connection in QGIS, you'll be able to reuse it here by just selecting it from
the drop-down and clicking
Connect
.
