Paragon Corporation wrote:
1) How you use PostGIS?
I'm using it as a backend database for our GPS track sharing site
http://timatio.com/
All the GPS data that users upload is stored in PostGIS - very useful
for finding relations between different tracks, calculating length,
intersection with countries, etc, etc.
Other features from PostgreSQL itself also come handy, like the full
text search module.
2) What you find useful about it over anything else?
It's simply the best available spatial database system i know of, has an
active development community that is not just helpful, but also eager
about bug fixes.
3) Why you think there should be any book written focused on its use and of
course if such a thing were to exist, would you buy it?
Location data is becoming more and more important - and even though the
general management of databases is assumed to be common knowledge among
developers, managing spatial data is still a niche that is bound to go
mainstream.
(if you use that sentence in the book, i want a free copy ;)
I probably wouldn't buy it, because i have a couple of years of
experience with PostGIS - but, that might of course depend on the focus
of the book.
Alex
http://timatio.com
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