On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Paragon Corporation <[email protected]> wrote: > Leo and I have a good portion of a PostGIS book written. Ideally we would > like to get a publisher to publish it, but seem to be running into the same > obstacles. No publisher seems to think people use PostGIS to warrant enough > demand for a book dedicated to it. > > So to make a decent case for a book, can each of you in your own words > describe > > 1) How you use PostGIS?
We use PostGIS in nearly all of our soil survey related research [1], and it has been an integral part in collaborative work with other researcher and state agencies. It is the back-end for an online soil survey application [2]. Some of this has been documented on the PostGIS case studies page [3]. 1. http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/264 2. http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/soilsurvey 3. http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/casestudies/casoil/ > 2) What you find useful about it over anything else? Most complete vector storage / analysis system available, excellent support, rapid development, ... > 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? The book would probably be most useful to people just getting started. Although it would be nice to have a book full of handy code snippets-- kind of like the stuff that you post on the mailing list. Perhaps a PostGIS for power users section would be of interest. Good luck with the book! Dylan > Of course I'll also need some official download stats etc. which hopefully > the Refractions group can help out with. I think Mark Cave-Ayland had > posted some stats a while back, but can't find them. > > Thanks, > Regina > > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
