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How to import Geopackages into Postgres/Postgis database?

Hi everyone,

I would like to know how to import a Geopackage file containing raster into a Postgis database. I tried with gdal library “ogr2ogr”.

This is the command line I used:

ogr2ogr -f PostgreSQL PG:"dbname='databasename' host='addr' port='5432' user='x' password='y'" path_name\geopackage_name.gpkg

I use a server Ubuntu 18.04 LAMP with postgres/postgis and I would like to import geopackage from my PC (Ubuntu 19.10 + Qgis + Postgresql 10 + gdal library installed).

Greeting, Giuseppe

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Bobby Iliev
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• December 20, 2019
Accepted Answer

Hello,

I think that your firewall might be blocking your connections on port 5432, so I would suggest running the command locally from your Droplet.

What you should usually do is:

  • SSH to your Droplet

  • Download data for the whole world or by country. You can download it from here:

https://gadm.org/download_world.html

To download the package you could run:

wget https://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/gadm3.6/gadm36_levels_gpkg.zip
unzip gadm36_levels_gpkg.zip

Note: the URL might change so it is best to go to the gadam.org website and get the latest version from there.

  • Create a PostgreSQL database if you don’t already have one.

  • Install the PostGIS extension:

CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
  • Import the data with ogr2ogr with the command that you’ve provided:
ogr2ogr -f PostgreSQL PG:"dbname='databasename' host='addr' port='5432' user='x' password='y'" path_name\geopackage_name.gpkg

Note: You might have to install the ogr2org command if you don’t have it installed already:

npm install ogr2ogr

Hope that this helps!

Regards, Bobby