<programlisting>CREATE TABLE myrasters(rid serial primary key, rast raster);</programlisting>
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- <para>There are many functions to help with that goal. If you are creaeting rasters not as a derivative of other rasters, you will want to start with:
+ <para>There are many functions to help with that goal. If you are creating rasters not as a derivative of other rasters, you will want to start with:
<xref linkend="RT_ST_MakeEmptyRaster" />, followed by <xref linkend="RT_ST_AddBand" /></para>
<para>You can also create rasters from geometries. To achieve that you'll want to use <xref linkend="RT_ST_AsRaster" /> perhaps accompanied with
- other functions such as <xref linkend="RT_ST_Union" /></para>
+ other functions such as <xref linkend="RT_ST_Union" /> or <xref linkend="RT_ST_MapAlgebraFct2" /> or any of the family of other map algebra functions.</para>
+ <para>There are even many more options for creating new raster tables from existing tables. For example you can create a raster table in a different projection from an existing one using <xref linkend="RT_ST_Transform" /> </para>
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<listitem><para>Once you are done populating your table initially, you'll want to create a spatial index on the raster column with something like:</para>
<programlisting>CREATE INDEX myrasters_rast_st_convexhull_idx ON myrasters USING gist( ST_ConvexHull(rast) );</programlisting>