Steve, Hmm interesting. No haven't taken a look at that. I knew there was something going on in that front, but didn't know how far it had progressed. We'll make sure to take a closer look at that.
Thanks for the tip, Leo -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Woodbridge Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:04 PM To: PostGIS Users Discussion Subject: Re: [postgis-users] The Old Who is using PostGIS survey again? Regina, Are you aware of the that has been done with SpatiaLite? It is a postGIS like extension to SQLite database. It is almost equivalent functionality to PostGIS and my guess is that mush or all of what you have written probably also pertains to SpatiaLite which might widen the value of your book. http://www.sqlite.org/ http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/ http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-2.1/SpatiaLite2-tutorial.html Best regards, -Steve Paragon Corporation 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? > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
