<div dir="ltr">Hi,
<span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Ruven Brooks,</span><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Good points. I would think that you are correct.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">However, there are experts saying that people who work on PostgreSQL/PostGIS should consider work like data blending and generating reusable data products for desktop application users to consume new data products.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Interesting questions arise. And, most people are short of knowledge how to do </span>data blending and generating reusable data products. Therefore, they need clear examples to show them the future path to the new journey of data blending and generation of reusable data products.</div><div><br></div><div>That is what I am looking for.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Shao </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 23:17, <<a href="mailto:ruvenml@beamerbrooks.com">ruvenml@beamerbrooks.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I doubt whether PostGIS
has any direct value whatsoever for desktop application users. At
a very minimum, using PostGIS directly requires a knowledge of
SQL. In fact, the more knowledge of SQL a user has, the more
powerful PostGIS will be. SQL is usually taught in a database
course which, in many computer science curriculums, is taught in
the second or third year, not to end users in another occupation.<br>
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Business intelligence systems such as Power BI and Tableau can
connect directly to PostGIS data bases and provide end user
commands and operations for querying and modifying those
databases. GIS systems such as ArcGIS and QGIS provide similar
capabilities. End users can get nearly all of the power of
PostGIS without having to learn anything outside of the business
intelligence system or the GIS system. <br>
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PostGIS is probably best reserved for people who have a
programming background and whose jobs or avocations involve doing
things that are difficult or impossible to do in existing business
intelligence or GIS applications. There seem to be more than
enough people like that to keep the PostGIS developers quite busy.<br>
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Ruven Brooks<br>
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<div>On 9/24/2020 3:58 PM, Shaozhong SHI
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<div dir="ltr">Though we have got some good examples of serving
data to wider business intelligence community, we are still
interested in finding excellent, compelling examples for showing
the value of PostgreSQL/PostGIS as a data service to desktop
application users.
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<div>I just wonder whether there are excellent examples, for
general users to appreciate?</div>
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