strapi-plugin-postgis
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Add native postgis support to strapi.

Under Development
How does it work?
Since Strapi does not support native database formats I convert requests before they being sent to the querybuilder and convert all the geometry objects to the geojson.
Requirements
Strapi Version 4.5.0 and up.
Installation
Setup your strapi app as usual
npx create-strapi-app@latest my-project --quickstart
Install pg and strapi-plugin-postgis
npm install pg --save
npm i strapi-plugin-postgis
Make sure to config your strapi to use postgrs database as backend, Use this link in case you need any help with this step (https://strapi.io/blog/postgre-sql-and-strapi-setup)
Make sure to install postgis on your database server.
- This plugin is only compatible with postgis versions 3.1 and 3.2*
Modify your middlewares as following to let strapi load osm tiles. Add '*.tile.openstreetmap.org' to the img-src as follows
// ./config/middlewares.js
module.exports = [
'strapi::errors',
{
name: 'strapi::security',
config: {
contentSecurityPolicy: {
useDefaults: true,
directives: {
'img-src': ["'self'", 'data:', 'blob:', '*.tile.openstreetmap.org'],
upgradeInsecureRequests: null,
},
},
},
},
'strapi::cors',
'strapi::poweredBy',
'strapi::logger',
'strapi::query',
'strapi::body',
'strapi::session',
'strapi::favicon',
'strapi::public',
];
Run strapi and you should see the following line
[2022-06-03 10:47:25.194] info: Welcome to Strapi Postgis π + π + πΊοΈ | 3.1 USE_GEOS=1 USE_PROJ=1 USE_STATS=1
Now in your content-types api folder modify schema.json and add a new column with the following format
{
"kind": "collectionType",
.
.
.
"attributes": {
.
.
.
"geom": { //--> your column name. you can change to anything
"columnType": {
"type": "specificType",
"args": [
"geometry(POINT,4326)" //-> change this line according to the Supported Data Types section
]
},
"type": "customField", //->don't change this
"customField": "plugin::postgis.map" //->don't change this
}
}
}
Supported Data Types
POINT

"geom": {
"columnType": {
"type": "specificType",
"args": [
"geometry(POINT,4326)"
]
},
"type": "customField",
"customField": "plugin::postgis.map"
}
-
POINT Z (0 0 0)
-
POINT ZM (0 0 0 0)
-
POINT EMPTY
LINESTRING

"g_line": {
"columnType": {
"type": "specificType",
"args": [
"geometry(LINESTRING,4326)"
]
},
"type": "customField",
"customField": "plugin::postgis.map"
}
- LINESTRING EMPTY
POLYGON

"g_polygon": {
"columnType": {
"type": "specificType",
"args": [
"geometry(POLYGON,4326)"
]
},
"type": "customField",
"customField": "plugin::postgis.map"
}
-
MULTIPOINT((0 0),(1 2))
-
MULTIPOINT Z ((0 0 0),(1 2 3))
-
MULTIPOINT EMPTY
-
MULTILINESTRING((0 0,1 1,1 2),(2 3,3 2,5 4))
-
MULTIPOLYGON(((0 0,4 0,4 4,0 4,0 0),(1 1,2 1,2 2,1 2,1 1)), ((-1 -1,-1 -2,-2 -2,-2 -1,-1 -1)))
-
GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(POINT(2 3),LINESTRING(2 3,3 4))
-
GEOMETRYCOLLECTION EMPTY
TODO
- Add tests
- Support all the types
- Add query options like sort by distance, overlap and etc.
- Develop dashboard
- Add cool pg queries and tilings ;)
Thanks to
- strapi-plugin-point-list for the idea of how to add a custom components to the strapi content types
- postgis knex plugin
- leaflet editor plugin
- strapi team
- and so many other stuff
