I think the newsgroup is probably better even if it creates a bit of traffic. Its probably good traffic for future reference for others anyway.
Thanks, Regina -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andreas Neumann Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 10:02 AM To: PostGIS Users Discussion Subject: Re: [postgis-users] The Old Who is using PostGIS survey again? Regina - do you want respondents to your survey send the information directly to you or to the Postgis list (potentially creating a lot of traffic on the list) - or would it be better to have a online poll/form, which would allow you better evaluate and process the results of your survey. I would very much look forward to a Postgis book and would buy it. Andreas > 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? > 2) What you find useful about it over anything else? > 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? > > 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 > -- Andreas Neumann Böschacherstrasse 6, CH-8624 Grüt/Gossau, Switzerland Email: [email protected], Web: * http://www.carto.net/ (Carto and SVG resources) * http://www.carto.net/neumann/ (personal page) * http://www.svgopen.org/ (SVG Open Conference) * http://www.geofoto.ch/ (Georeferenced Photos of Switzerland) _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users ----------------------------------------- The substance of this message, including any attachments, may be confidential, legally privileged and/or exempt from disclosure pursuant to Massachusetts law. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
