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Looking for fastest solution for Point in Polygon analysis of 200 million points

Apologies for asking a question that has been asked before -- I've read through answers, and I'm left wondering how to implement the recommendations. I've never used SQL, Python, C, and have only ...
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Fastest way to spatially join a point CSV with a polygon Shapefile

I have a 1 billion point CSV file and a shapefile with around 5,000 polygons. What would be the fastest way to spatially join points and polygons? For each point, I need to get the containing polygon ...
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Performance Gain Through GIST Index for Point in Polygon Query

I have two tables: locations(id,region_id,the_geom) and regions(id,the_geom). For each location point I want to determine the region it is located in: UPDATE locations SET region_id = (SELECT id ...