Very briefly... When you want to manage spatial data, especially large volumes,or analyze them, or do polar maps, or use projections to display data in a more correct cartographic or spatial way...
Postgis plus a mapserver (mapserver/geoserver/deegree/etc) plus a web mapping client (Openlayers/leaflet/etc) gives you a more complex & more powerful suite than Google. If you need that power & complexity. Google (or Bing) gives you a rich global context map dataset to display your data on top of, that you need to provide for yourself otherwise. There is a place for both... if I was to employ a competent statistical modeller, I would not choose someone who's tool of choice was a spreadsheet. Similarly, a web mapping specialist or cartographer who's only experience was with Google... so is a simple spreadsheet approach adequate for your needs or not? Cheers, Brent Wood --- On Sat, 4/6/13, zach cruise <[email protected]> wrote: From: zach cruise <[email protected]> Subject: [postgis-users] postgis v. google To: "PostGIS Users Discussion" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, April 6, 2013, 11:35 AM when would using just google maps make more sense than using something with postgis? _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
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