[GRASS5] [ANNOUNCE] Initial Release of PostGIS (fwd)

[Rich Shepard]

  I think this is worth considering.

Rich

Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President

                       Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
            2404 SW 22nd Street | Troutdale, OR 97060-1247 | U.S.A.
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Refractions Research is pleased to announce the inital release of PostGIS, a
set of 3-D geographic object types for the PostgreSQL 7.1.x database server.

PostGIS includes the following functionality:

- Simple Features as defined by the OpenGIS Consortium (OGC)
  - Point
  - LineString
  - Polygon (with holes)
  - MultiPoint
  - MultiLineString
  - MultiPolygon
  - GeometryCollection
- The text representation of the simple features is the OGC
  Well-Known Text format.
- Geometries can be indexed using either R-Tree (not recommended) or
  GiST (recommended).
- Simple geospatial analysis functions.
- PostgreSQL JDBC extension objects corresponding to the geometries.

PostGIS is released under the GNU General Public Licence.

For more information, visit the PostGIS web site,
http://postgis.refractions.net or join the discussion list by sending a
message to postgis-subscribe at yahoogroups.com .

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