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?
We have been using it for all our GIS project since 2 years. Anything,
from simulations for air traffic control to software for managing child
plays, public green areas and a lot of other stuff.
2) What you find useful about it over anything else?
To my current knowledge it is the most complete open source OGC/Simple
Features compliant database based software. There is no real competion
to it.
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?
Internally, we rely a lot on printed books, since you can take them home
for a good read over the week end, make annotations, create a common
knowledge base...
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
Regards,
Peter
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