--- Paragon Corporation <[email protected]> escribió: > 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? * I use with mapserver an pmapper to publish data and web services WFS and WMS. * Also use for data analisis. > 2) What you find useful about it over anything else? * It is easy to use compared with propietary tools. > 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? * This book must describe internals of postgis programming, so others can hack it. * Explain how to use an under which cirncunstances. * How to administer in Windows (altought I use on Linux). * Perhaps this book need to be selled with a postgresql book adminstration so it can focus on the geometry operations and applications.
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