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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Nicklas,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I'm blushing. Glad to see some people appreciate my work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I updated my case studies list:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.postgis.us/page_case_studies">http://www.postgis.us/page_case_studies</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Socrata might be using PostGIS. I assume they are using PostgreSQL garnering from this tech article <a href="https://www.socrata.com/developer-blog-article/streaming-geospatial-processing-in-the-socrata-platform/">https://www.socrata.com/developer-blog-article/streaming-geospatial-processing-in-the-socrata-platform/</a> , but that doesn't necessarily mean PostGIS as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>As I recall I did see a talk in PgConfUS (or was it FOSS4G NA) of FAA (Federal Aviation) discussing their use of PostGIS.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Regina<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nicklas Aven<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 19, 2016 6:06 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Sandro Santilli' <strk@keybit.net>; PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel@lists.osgeo.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [postgis-devel] Old PostGIS address still listed at PostgreSQL webpage<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'>Paul, where is the CartoDB story?<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'>And Boundless ought to write something.<br>Soon I hope to have a story to tell myself. And I hope that will also lead to some more activity from my side :-)<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'>Maybe we could also have some more personal stories. Letting everyone that feel that they are part of the PostGIS project present themselfs?<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'>Thanks<br>Nicklas<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'>Skickat från min Sony Xperia™-smartphone<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><br><br>---- Regina Obe skrev ----<br><br>I'm indifferent. <br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Sandro Santilli [mailto:<a href="mailto:sandro.santilli@gmail.com">sandro.santilli@gmail.com</a>] On Behalf Of Sandro<br>Santilli<br>Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 1:16 PM<br>To: PostGIS Development Discussion <<a href="mailto:postgis-devel@lists.osgeo.org">postgis-devel@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>Cc: Paragon Corporation <<a href="mailto:lr@pcorp.us">lr@pcorp.us</a>>; Paul Ramsey<br><<a href="mailto:pramsey@cleverelephant.ca">pramsey@cleverelephant.ca</a>><br>Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Old PostGIS address still listed at PostgreSQL<br>webpage<br><br>On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:13:56PM <a href="tel:+0100">+0100</a>, Nicklas Avén wrote:<br><br>> I have copy pasted the text from the two case studies that was posted <br>> to the users list into web pages.<br>> <br>> Should I just commit or should anyone review?<br><br>Ah, good question. It isn't easy to review in a branch for SVN.<br>Regina, Paul... how about putting this website under git/trac @osgeo ?<br>I can set up the git repo pretty quickly :)<br><br>--strk;<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>postgis-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:postgis-devel@lists.osgeo.org">postgis-devel@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-devel">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-devel</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>