[Live-demo] Suggest reworking PostGIS Quickstart to remove command-line interface

[Cameron Shorter]

I'm interested to hear feedback on my suggestion to restructure the 
PostGIS quickstart, primarily to drop the command line description in 
favour of a pgAdmin section.

http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/quickstart/postgis_quickstart.html

On 04/02/13 09:20, OSGeo wrote:
> #1085: PostGIS Quickstart review - remove command line description
> ----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------
>   Reporter:  camerons  |       Owner:  live-demo@…
>       Type:  defect    |      Status:  new
>   Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:  OSGeoLive6.5
> Component:  LiveDVD   |    Keywords:  postgis, docs, 6.5
> ----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------
>   I've added the follow review comments into the PostGIS quickstart:
>
>     For this quickstart, which targets new users who might not be familiar
>   with
>     databases or SQL, I suggest we drop section describing command line
>     control of Postgres. If we do keep command line information, I suggest
>     it is moved to the end of the quickstart, possibly added into "Things
>   you
>     could try".
>     Instead, I think the Quickstart should cover:
>       * Keep Client/Server overview
>       * Create a database in pgAdmin
>       * Load a dataset, probably from a shapefile
>       * Do some SQL queries on the dataset
>       * Use QGis to view data from PostGIS (using the existing Natural Earth
>   data). We should be able to keep most of the existing QGis sections
>


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