Geospatial Analytics
This section contains information on updates to Vertica Geospatial Analytics for Vertica Analytic Database 8.1.x.
GeoHash Support
Vertica supports GeoHashes. A GeoHash is a goecoding system for hierarchically encoding increasingly granular spatial references. Vertica supports the following functions for use with GeoHashes:
- ST_GeoHash - Returns a GeoHash in the shape of the specified geometry.
- ST_GeomFromGeoHash- Returns a polygon in the shape of the specified GeoHash.
- ST_PointFromGeoHash - Returns the center point of the specified GeoHash.
More Details
For more information see Geospatial Analytics.