Why don't you try something like http://www.kickstarter.com/?
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Paul Ramsey <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks to the sponsorship of Michigan Technological University, we now > have 50% of the work complete. There is a working patch at the > commitfest <https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=631> > which provides quad-tree and kd-tree indexes. > > However, there is a problem: unless the patch is reviewed and goes > through more QA/QC, it'll never get into PostgreSQL proper. In case > you think I am kidding: we had a patch for KNN searching ready for the > 9.0 release, but it wasn't reviewed in time, so we had to wait all the > way through the 9.1 cycle to get it. > > I am looking for sponsors in the $5K to $10K range to complete this > work. If you use PostgreSQL in your business, this is a chance to add > a basic capability that may help you in all kinds of ways you don't > expect. We're talking about faster geospatial indexes here, but this > facility will also radically speed any partitioned space. (For > example, the suffix-tree, which can search through URLs incredibly > fast. Another example, you can use a suffix tree to very efficiently > index geohash strings. Interesting.) > > If you think there's a possibility, please contact me and I will send > you a prospectus you can take to your manager. Let's make this happen > folks! > > Paul > > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Paul Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote: > > One of the eye-opening talks of PgCon last week was the presentation > > from Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev on their work on spatial > > partitioning indexes in PostgreSQL. Oleg and Teodor are the > > maintainers of the GiST framework we use for our r-tree, and are > > proposing a new framework to allow quad-tree and kd-tree > > implementations in PostgreSQL. > > > > http://www.pgcon.org/2011/schedule/events/309.en.html > > > > The upshot is, this new approach is as much as 6-times faster than the > > r-tree (at least for points). If you're interested in seeing PostGIS > > indexes get vastly faster, consider funding this project. Get in touch > > with me directly for details. > > > > http://blog.opengeo.org/2011/05/27/pgcon-notes-3/ > > > > P. > > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > -- *Johnathan* Software Engineer San Francisco, California *Follow me on Twitter: @iamleppert <http://twitter.com/#!/iamleppert>*
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