Happy to elaborate on how we have used PostGIS to support SoilWeb for the last 10 years. This is a realtime interface to one of the largest spatial databases in the world.
Dylan USDA-NRCS > On Oct 26, 2018, at 10:05 AM, Regina Obe <l...@pcorp.us> wrote: > > Hey all. So we've been in talks with our editor about having a 3rd Edition > of PostGIS hopefully to be released around the same time as PostGIS 3.0. > > I think they are more or less sold on the idea except they did ask about > current market share and usage. > > Part of the reason for that is our previous editions focused a lot on "How > do I use this function or do this weird sounding thing that only GIS people > can make sense of" instead of "How do I do this real world thing" > > So one of the thoughts was having our table of contents be more like "How do > I do this with PostGIS" in somewhat laymen terms that most people can relate > to - like Political Districting, Real Estate analysis (walk scores, > elevation measurements to determine viablility of building on a plot of > land) > without scaring people off with "real world things" they can't relate to or > in overly techy terms. > > Also since the 2nd Edition (which was in 2015 super ancient now since the > New shiny version at the time was 2.1 and 2.1 is not even supported > anymore). > Other major thing changed is a lot of people are deploying PostGIS on cloud > offerings like Amazon RDS, Microsoft Azure, and Google PostgreSQL for Cloud > so we plan to cover a bit about some things relevant in those that may not > be relevant when deploying on your own server. > > That said, if people can respond with what things they are currently using > PostGIS for and also what hosting they are using for PostGIS, that would be > helpful for us to get a better idea of focus points. > > It'd be great if you posted on the list, but if you are shy or need your > usage anonymized, you can write directly to me. > > Thanks, > Regina > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users