Regina I use PostGIS for weather station (surface observations) data, as well as quality control flags. I'm now starting to look at weather satellite data with the newer GOES-16 and -17 satellites (GOES-R and -S). Keeping with the "all things meteorological" theme, I also have played, with limited success, at zenith-pointing lidar datasets looking at the lowest layers of the atmosphere for structural data but that set doesn't lend itself too well to a spatial application because of the sparse nature of the sensors. Finally, point-cloud to acquire weather radar volumes is another one under development.
I suspect these aren't generic for what your editors and publisher were looking for, but it's a start. Thanks for undertaking a new book; I'm looking forward to it! Gerry On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 12:06 PM Regina Obe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all. So we've been in talks with our editor about having a 3rd Edition > of PostGIS hopefully to be released around the same time as PostGIS 3.0. > > I think they are more or less sold on the idea except they did ask about > current market share and usage. > > Part of the reason for that is our previous editions focused a lot on "How > do I use this function or do this weird sounding thing that only GIS people > can make sense of" instead of "How do I do this real world thing" > > So one of the thoughts was having our table of contents be more like "How > do > I do this with PostGIS" in somewhat laymen terms that most people can > relate > to - like Political Districting, Real Estate analysis (walk scores, > elevation measurements to determine viablility of building on a plot of > land) > without scaring people off with "real world things" they can't relate to > or > in overly techy terms. > > Also since the 2nd Edition (which was in 2015 super ancient now since the > New shiny version at the time was 2.1 and 2.1 is not even supported > anymore). > Other major thing changed is a lot of people are deploying PostGIS on cloud > offerings like Amazon RDS, Microsoft Azure, and Google PostgreSQL for Cloud > so we plan to cover a bit about some things relevant in those that may not > be relevant when deploying on your own server. > > That said, if people can respond with what things they are currently using > PostGIS for and also what hosting they are using for PostGIS, that would be > helpful for us to get a better idea of focus points. > > It'd be great if you posted on the list, but if you are shy or need your > usage anonymized, you can write directly to me. > > Thanks, > Regina > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users -- Gerry Creager NSSL/CIMMS 405.325.6371 ++++++++++++++++++++++ “Big whorls have little whorls, That feed on their velocity; And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity.” Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953)
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