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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>>> - Name of the organization</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Seoul National University, Department of Archaeology</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>>> - Data being managed in the database</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Korea Heritage Database</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Archaeological research data (regional and site level, mostly from Peru)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>>> - How the data is being accessed / manipulated</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Desktop:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">JUMP</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Custom extension to ArcGIS 9 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Manifold System 6.1 (via WKB)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Dissemination via the Internet:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SVG application (under development)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>>> - Why you chose to use PostGIS for the application</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. Free, SQL-based spatial database with small footprint and good performance.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. Spatial SQL offers unmatched flexibility of data access/seamlessly mixing spatial and attribute data.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3. Directly supports multiple options for disseminating data via the web.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">4. Standards based.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>>> - What PostGIS feature or PostGIS-related software (not necessarily</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">internal to PostGIS) would make your life much easier/better? </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. Full support for 3D geometries (3D spatial analysis).</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. Raster support, incl. mixed raster and vector queries (e.g., avg and stdev of raster values by vector polygons).</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3. Thiessen polygon function.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">4. Spatial statistics functions.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">5. A quality application that will directly edit PostGIS geometries.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">6. Upgrade database without dump/load.</FONT>
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