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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hi Andreas</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>i saw this link <A
href="http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/digi/"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/digi/</FONT></A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>GREAT WORK GUY</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>DU BIST DER BESTE SVG-KACKER
:-)</FONT></DIV>
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Jean David<BR>01MAP<BR>e-mail: <A
href="mailto:david@01map.net">david@01map.net</A><BR>Tél: 04 67 45 60
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href="http://www.01map.net">http://www.01map.net</A><BR>Perso: <A
href="http://techer.pascal.free.fr/postgis/">http://techer.pascal.free.fr/postgis/</A><BR>---------------------------------------------------------------</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=neumann@karto.baug.ethz.ch
href="mailto:neumann@karto.baug.ethz.ch">Andreas Neumann</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net
href="mailto:postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net">postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:52
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [postgis-users] Re: How do you
use Postgis</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I'd like to give feedback on how we use Postgis:<BR><BR>Name of
the Organisation:<BR>Institute of Cartography, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology)<BR><BR>we use postgis for teaching and research
projects - more and more <BR>diploma work is done using postgis as a
backend<BR><BR>------------<BR><BR>Data being managed in the
database:<BR><BR>Project related data - currently:<BR>Mainly topographic
data<BR>- USGS data (e.g. Yosemite National Park)<BR>- Small scale european
data<BR>- large scale topographic data from swisstopo - our federal mapping
agency<BR>- smaller projects for teaching<BR><BR>-----------<BR><BR>how the
data is accessed / manipulated<BR><BR>data is usually prepared in ESRI ArcGIS
and later transfered to Postgis <BR>through the shp2pgsql loader<BR>data is
extracted with PHP and displayed in SVG mapping applications:<BR>e.g. <A
href="http://www.carto.net/williams/yosemite/">http://www.carto.net/williams/yosemite/</A>
or <BR><A
href="http://www.carto.net/neumann/phd/prototype/">http://www.carto.net/neumann/phd/prototype/</A><BR>you
need the Adobe SVG viewer (<A
href="http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/">http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/</A>)
<BR>to view the data, I hope it will also soon run with native svg support
<BR>in firefox/mozilla<BR><BR>we also created a simple SVG interface for
digitizing/updating vector <BR>data in Postgis through a webbrowser<BR>we use
UMN map server to serve raster data directly to the SVG mapping
<BR>application<BR><A
href="http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/digi/">http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/digi/</A>
(still a prototype)<BR><BR>btw:<BR>there is also a Postgis/PHP/SVG tutorial
available at:<BR><A
href="http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/postgis_geturl/">http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/postgis_geturl/</A><BR><BR>-----------<BR><BR>why
you chose to use PostGIS for the application?<BR><BR>it supports SVG
output<BR>it is stable<BR>it runs on Linux/Unix<BR>it supports
simplification<BR>it is ogc compatible<BR>it is open
source<BR>price<BR><BR>------------<BR><BR>What PostGIS feature or
PostGIS-related software (not necessarily <BR>internal to PostGIS) would make
your life much easier/better?<BR><BR>- i'd love to see topology and networking
support, including finding shortest paths<BR>- also, i'd love to see
multi-column index support that includes a spatial index (is that already
possible?, I am unsure about that)<BR><BR><BR>I'd also like to thank the
refractions people and the community for <BR>their great support!<BR><BR>All
the
best,<BR>Andreas<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>postgis-users
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