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<para>Refer to the <ulink url="http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/WKTRaster">WKT Raster home page</ulink>.</para>
</answer>
+ </qandaentry>
+
+ <qandaentry>
+ <question>
+ <para>Are there any books or tutorials to get me started with this wonderful invention?</para>
+ </question>
+
+ <answer>
+ <para>There is a full length beginner tutorial <ulink url="http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/WKTRasterTutorial01"> Intersecting vector buffers with large raster coverage using PostGIS WKT Raster</ulink>.
+ There is a whole chapter (more than 35 pages of content) dedicated to WKT Raster with free code and data downloads at <ulink url="http://www.postgis.us/chapter_13">PostGIS in Action - WKT Raster chapter</ulink>.
+ You can <ulink url="http://www.postgis.us/page_buy_book">buy PostGIS in Action</ulink> now from Manning and get all draft chapters and completed book once out or buy from Amazon at a significant discount, but wait for the book to come out.
+ </para>
+ </answer>
+
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
</question>
<answer>
- <para>Currently you need <ulink url="http://www.gdal.org/">GDAL 1.6+</ulink>, <ulink url="http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/">Python 2.5</ulink> with <ulink url="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GDAL/1.6.1">GDAL 1.6 or higher bindings</ulink>,
+ <para>Currently you need <ulink url="http://www.gdal.org/">GDAL 1.6+</ulink> though later versions would be better since they have many memory leak fixes, <ulink url="http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/">Python 2.5</ulink> with <ulink url="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GDAL/1.6.1">GDAL 1.6 or higher bindings</ulink>,
and <ulink url="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy">NumPy</ulink>.</para>
<para>
For windows users, installing these components from binary sources is documented in the