-------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Sandro Santilli <[email protected]> > Reply-to: OSGeo Discussions <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] PostGIS Topology pledge: 2 people have signed > up, 8 more needed > Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:18:01 +0100 > > This is just a reminder about the fundraising drive aimed at improving > the PostGIS topology support in upcoming 2.0 release. > > << I will implement a Geometry to TopoGeometry importer in > PostGIS-2.0 but only if 10 other people will donate 250 euro. >> > > http://www.pledgebank.com/postgistopology > > The idea is that such a new function would make it extremely simple > for you to start using topology for your layers. As simple as: > > UPDATE layer SET topo_geom = toTopoGeometry('layertopo', geom); > > You could use the topological representation just to cleanup the data [1], > to produce a pyramid of simplified versions or simply for storage and > exchange with other systems (topological GML output already available). > > [1] http://strk.keybit.net/blog/2011/11/21/topology-cleaning-with-postgis/ > > As of today 2 people have signed (thank you Andreas!, thank you Brian!). > It will take 8 more signatures to get it started. > > The pledge deadline is December 20th. > Go postgis community, go ! > > --strk; > > () Free GIS consultant/developer > /\ http://strk.keybit.net/
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