[postgis-devel] Old PostGIS address still listed at PostgreSQL webpage

[Regina Obe]

Nicklas,

Related comment.  For the two case studies you added, would be good to also have a logo with those and hyperlink the name to their website like the other older case studies we have.

Also thinking about this I think it should be okay to link to other case studies people have done on their site if we can't find a contact to get a case study to list directly on PostGIS site.

Here is one recent example that looks good where they mention use of PostGIS and QGIS - https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2016/03/using-open-source-gis-in-the-public-sector/


Thanks,
Regina

-----Original Message-----
From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Nicklas Avén
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 5:47 PM
To: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Old PostGIS address still listed at PostgreSQL webpage



Do you think I can add this list without asking them?
I thought the best way was to let people tell their own story ...

But I think it is a shame that we don't mention organisations that we know use PostGIS, so I don't know ...

It would be cool to list for instance UN departments that uses PostGIS.
At least one mention here
http://2015.foss4g.org/united-nations-special-session/


Thanks

Nicklas


On Sun, 2016-03-20 at 21:47 -0400, Regina Obe wrote:
> Nicklas,
> 
>  
> 
> I'm blushing.  Glad to see some people appreciate my work.
> 
>  
> 
> I'm really also happy you are doing this and bringing this issue up, 
> because I forget how much weight (especially government agencies) put 
> on case studies.  PostGIS website section is pretty dated and 
> miniscule.
> 
>  
> 
> Getting back to case studies,   I have no issue with you posting them.
> We should also garner some big names besides CartoDb that use PostGIS.
> 
>  
> 
> I updated my case studies list:
> 
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> http://www.postgis.us/page_case_studies
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> 
> I'm not sure if FourSquare still uses PostGIS.  At the time I checked 
> they were and it was on their about page, but that page has since 
> become very generic.
> 
>  
> 
> I can check with my Facebook contact (that we did a day of PostGIS 
> training for), to verify if Instagram still uses PostGIS and if it has 
> spread elsewhere in Facebook and see if they'd be willing to write up 
> something about their use of it if they are still using it.
> 
>  
> 
> Socrata might be using PostGIS.  I assume they are using PostgreSQL 
> garnering from this tech article 
> https://www.socrata.com/developer-blog-article/streaming-geospatial-processing-in-the-socrata-platform/ , but that doesn't necessarily mean PostGIS as well.
> 
>  
> 
> As I recall I did see a  talk in PgConfUS (or was it FOSS4G NA) of FAA 
> (Federal Aviation) discussing their use of PostGIS.
> 
>  
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>  
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> Thanks,
> 
> Regina
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On 
> Behalf Of Nicklas Aven
> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2016 6:06 AM
> To: 'Sandro Santilli' <strk at keybit.net>; PostGIS Development 
> Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Old PostGIS address still listed at 
> PostgreSQL webpage
> 
>  
> 
> I think I will just commit it to the web page if no one objects. It is 
> just copy paste from the 2 posts on users list. I put the senders of 
> the stories as authers. I will also try to get some more stories about 
> PostGIS usage.
> 
> Paul, where is the CartoDB story?
> 
> And Boundless ought to write something.
> Soon I hope to have a story to tell myself. And I hope that will also 
> lead to some more activity from my side :-)
> 
> Maybe we could also have some more personal stories. Letting everyone 
> that feel that they are part of the PostGIS project present themselfs?
> 
> I don't know, but I think the PostGIS project get too little credit 
> nowadays. Look at the stars at github. "Small" javascript libraries 
> gets thousands and PostGIS some hundred.
> 
> And I often think that there is people that get too little attention 
> for their very big effort. I do of course especially think about 
> Regina who is the name behind when people talks about the very helpful 
> PostGIS community. Both in answering questions and in making things 
> "just work" by testing from all angels and making many of the fixes.
> And of course by getting the job done to write a bunch of very 
> valuable books.
> 
> Thanks
> Nicklas
> 
> Skickat fr n min Sony Xperia -smartphone
> 
> 
> 
> ---- Regina Obe skrev ----
> 
> I'm indifferent.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandro Santilli [mailto:sandro.santilli at gmail.com] On Behalf Of 
> Sandro Santilli
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 1:16 PM
> To: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Cc: Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us>; Paul Ramsey 
> <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Old PostGIS address still listed at 
> PostgreSQL webpage
> 
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:13:56PM +0100, Nicklas Av n wrote:
> 
> > I have copy pasted the text from the two case studies that was
> posted
> > to the users list into web pages.
> > 
> > Should I just commit or should anyone review?
> 
> Ah, good question. It isn't easy to review in a branch for SVN.
> Regina, Paul... how about putting this website under git/trac @osgeo ?
> I can set up the git repo pretty quickly :)
> 
> --strk;
> 
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