<div dir="ltr">> As compared with PostGIS spatial operations, what are the advantages and disadvantages <div>> of various systems in Azure Cloud in terms of supporting further development.<br></div><div><br></div><div>see: <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/orbital/geospatial-reference-architecture">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/orbital/geospatial-reference-architecture</a></div><div><br></div><div>The Azure Cloud has many features related to GeoSpatial. </div><div>One small part of this is<b> "Azure Database for PostgreSQL</b> (+ PostGIS)."<br><br>However, migrating to Azure Cloud can mean different things. <br>If someone specifically means MS SQL Server, then it's not ideal for PostGIS. :-(<br><br>Regards,<br> Imre<br><br><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Shaozhong SHI <<a href="mailto:shishaozhong@gmail.com">shishaozhong@gmail.com</a>> ezt írta (időpont: 2023. aug. 30., Sze, 14:31):<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I am trying to review the underlying geospatial capability of these systems as the geospatial capability maturity have been developed unevenly. I am interested in the following:<div><br></div><div>As compared with PostGIS spatial operations, what are the advantages and disadvantages of various systems in Azure Cloud in terms of supporting further development.</div><div><br></div><div>In my mind and from my experience, PostGIS has a lot of useful underlying functions that support development of other applications.</div><div><br></div><div>My initial glance of what other systems offer in the Azure, the potential for this is not great.</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to find information on this and confirm or reject this understanding.</div><div><br></div><div>Secondary programming/development relies on what the underlying functionality of a system provides. Add-on development is based on the underlying technology offered. From my experience, PostGIS offers a versatile range of functions and capability. This is important to any other add-on development for forming robust and useful geospatial applications.</div><div><br></div><div>Am I right?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>David</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 01:31, David Haynes <<a href="mailto:haynesd2@gmail.com" target="_blank">haynesd2@gmail.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"><div dir="auto">Suprio Ray and Ahmed Eldway are two researchers that do a lot of spatial computation work on big data (Hadoop, Spark, and parallel computation frameworks). In my opinion, PostGIS is a more robust tool for spatial operations. However other tools and platforms can be very good for specific spatial operations. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 29, 2023, 12:40 PM Shaozhong SHI <<a href="mailto:shishaozhong@gmail.com" target="_blank">shishaozhong@gmail.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"><div dir="ltr">Geospatial capability has varied maturity in different systems, particular of interest is those in Azure Cloud as compared to PostGIS.<div><br></div><div>Is there any publication on this topic?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>David</div></div>
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