Great examples of use-cases thanks for sharing. Razy
On Sunday, November 4, 2018, Dylan Beaudette <[email protected]> wrote: > Happy to elaborate on how we have used PostGIS to support SoilWeb for the > last 10 years. This is a realtime interface to one of the largest spatial > databases in the world. > > Dylan > USDA-NRCS > > > On Oct 26, 2018, at 10:05 AM, 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 > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
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