>From: postgis-users <[email protected]> on behalf of Simon 
>Greener <[email protected]>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 11:20 AM
>To: PostGIS Users Discussion <[email protected]>
>Subject: [postgis-users] Topology question
>
>I'm proposing PostGIS for a customer with qGIS as an editing tool. The 
>question of topological editing is to be addressed. While there are 
>topological editing tools in qGIS I haven't found any examples of people using 
>PostGIS topology (with/without qGIS). Does anyone know of any reference sites 
>where PostGIS topology is being used in production?
>Thanks in advance
>Simon

Hi

NIBIO has been using Postgis Topology for many years now in production and for 
many types of different layers. There are still bugs to work with in Postgis 
Toplogy, but with good help from Sandro Santilli this has been working very 
well. When I asked last year I got a replay from 6 people that was using this 
in production.

We don't use QGIS for updating for data in Postgis Topology , because one of 
the reasons for using Postgis Toplogy was to make maps more easy to update for 
non gis people in addition to be able to handle overlap and gap in much better 
way, than when using simple feature. To update maps you should not need install 
QGIS or other 3. parity software, but just click on link, login and start to 
draw new borders. From QGIS I use TopoViewer from dbmanger to view and check 
Postgis Topology databases and that is very nice.

Non gis people seems like the idea of just adding new borders, rather having to 
move old borders with many points around. Not moving borders also secures us 
much better against data corruption of old data.

The idea of adding and removing borders fits perfectly with the Postgis 
Topology model and that makes the client much simpler also and it means that we 
can have simple generic web browser clients, based on a very simple API.

The other thing we use Postgis Topology for is to clean and merge big simple 
feature layers .

Yes, we need to get more focus Postgis Topology and also the limitations, costs 
and data corruption related usage of Simple Feature.

So I think, we need more workshops and talks around these issues on for 
instance on Foss4G conferences around the world and other forums.

Here are some links with more info

https://gitlab.com/nibioopensource/topo_update-app-foss4g2022
https://gitlab.com/nibioopensource/pgtopo_update_gui
https://gitlab.com/nibioopensource/pgtopo_update_rest
https://gitlab.com/nibioopensource/pgtopo_update_sql
https://gitlab.com/nibioopensource/resolve-overlap-and-gap

Lars
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