My 2 cents...
It's very exciting to hear that you are working on a book. If you get
stuck with publishers, have you considered publishing on lulu.com? No
idea how good it is, but it is mentioned at the end of
http://www.macresearch.org/realities-writing-technical-books
Without a solid book on a topic it is often hard to convince our
partners to adopt that technology. A book they can hold often gives
people that extra boost of confidence.
-kurt
http://schwehr.org
Paragon Corporation wrote:
So to make a decent case for a book, can each of you in your own words
describe
1) How you use PostGIS?
Many different uses:
* We use PostGIS as the backend to our Environmental Response Management
Application developed for NOAA. The front end is OpenLayers and
MapServer with OpenStreetMaps
* Vessel tracking with the Automatic Identification System (AIS) for
vessels throughout the United States with NOAA and the USCG.
* Now that ESRI support Postgresql/PostGIS we are looking to migrate
data to PostGIS to allow other tools to interact with a large collection
of NOAA weather data streams in addition to the traditional ESRI web
interfaces.
* Lots of misc small projects from hydrographic survey line planning to
right whale monitoring.
2) What you find useful about it over anything else?
It's more flexible and stable than anything else we use.
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?
I could get more of our staff to use PostGIS if there was a physical
book for it. Many of us need the focus of a book to help learn tools.
I would certainly purchase a book on it the moment it was available.
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
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