[Live-demo] PostGIS Quickstart needs updating
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 23:29:52 PST 2016
Thanks Baka,
Your help would be much appreciated.
I suggest starting by reading through to the bottom of this email to see
Regina's suggestions on what needs to change.
Also, feel free to ask questions either on this list, or on IRC:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Contact_Us
There is often one of us osgeolive people online.
Our notes on creating documentation might also help:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Documentation
Warm regards, Cameron
On 4/03/2016 5:44 pm, Baka Niko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can follow the old quickstart tomorrow and see what changed ( or
> don't work anymore). I'm not cutting edge in PostGis however.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nicolas
>
> 2016-03-03 22:32 GMT+01:00 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com
> <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>>:
>
> Hi Regina,
> Thanks for your review of the PostGIS docs on OSGeo-Live and
> identifying that the PostGIS quickstart is out of date and needs
> work. This is quite important as PostGIS is one of the core
> projects in most OSGeobased systems.
>
> With regards to updating, we are short of time, with our first
> release candidate due in 3 days, and final release due in 2 weeks. [1]
>
> I'm wondering if there is anyone who can help Regina out this
> weekend? I can commit to reviewing docs once created. I've created
> a ticket to track this [2].
>
> Regina, I'll bump the version number of the PostGIS Project
> Overview as you suggest.
>
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kO6zzmLFfprZGgp5x7Sjwi-EVN6NTGDR4KXvFVtNpR0/edit?hl=en_GB
> [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1634#ticket
>
> On 4/03/2016 12:37 am, Regina Obe wrote:
>
> Cameron,
>
> It looks like you guys never had much on the overview page
> anyway except for
> the version number.
>
> https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/blob/master/en/overview/postgis_overv
> iew.rst
>
> So given that I would just update the version to 2.2.1 .
>
> The quick starter guide on the other hand needs some work.
>
> https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/blob/master/en/quickstart/postgis_qui
> ckstart.rst
>
> 1) It is using ST_Distance_Sphere which got deprecated in
> 2.2.0 and will be
> removed in the future.
> That should be changed to ST_DistanceSphere.
> http://postgis.net/docs/ST_DistanceSphere.html
>
> 2) The QGIS images are a bit out of date. For example I think
> PostGIS
> Manager got renamed to DB Manager and got more encompassing to
> satisfy
> SpatialIte too.
>
>
> I'm a bit strapped for time this month, but if you are not in
> too much of a
> rush, I could spruce up the quick start next month and send a
> pull request.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com
> <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>]
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2016 6:12 AM
> To: Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us <mailto:lr at pcorp.us>>; 'Brian
> Hamlin' <maplabs at light42.com <mailto:maplabs at light42.com>>; 'Barry
> Rowlingson' <barry.rowlingson at gmail.com
> <mailto:barry.rowlingson at gmail.com>>
> Subject: Re: Any features added to postgis between versions
> 2.1.3 and 2.2.1
> worth mentioning in the Project Overview?
>
> Hey guys,
> Any chance one of you could take a crack at fixing up the
> Project Overview
> (or tell me there is nothing to do).
>
> Cheers, Cameron
>
> On 1/03/2016 8:39 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
> Hi Regina, Brian, Barry,
> Sounds like a doc update is in order?
> Would one of you mind updating the Project Overview,
> create a git pull
> request, and then I'll review.
>
> Are there any updates required for the Quickstart?
>
> Warm regards, Cameron
>
> On 29/02/2016 11:54 pm, Regina Obe wrote:
>
> Key features in PostGIS 2.2 are
>
> 1) KNN now supported for geography and 3D geometries.
> Prior versions only supported for 2D geometry.
> 2) KNN true-distance functionality for PostgreSQL
> 9.5. This is for
> all KNN including the new 3D and geography. Does OSGeo
> live have 9.5?
> What this means is the distance returned by the
> spatial index KNN
> operators is the actual distance and not the bounding
> box or
> bounding box centroid distance Of prior versions.
>
> 3) Ability to build raster overviews in the database
> without having
> to rely on raster2pgsql. Means you can have overviews
> without
> reloading your raster data.
> 4) Tiger geocoder upgraded to support Tiger 2015
> 5) New extensions address_standardizer (not sure if
> you have
> postgis_sfcgal packaged, but that became an extension
> in PostGIS 2.2)
>
> 6) Lots of other neat functions noted in the release notes
>
> http://postgis.net/2015/10/07/postgis-2.2.0/
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cameron.shorter at gmail.com
> <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> [mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com
> <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>]
> Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 5:56 AM
> To: Brian Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com
> <mailto:maplabs at light42.com>>; Barry Rowlingson
> <barry.rowlingson at gmail.com
> <mailto:barry.rowlingson at gmail.com>>; Regina Obe
> <lr at pcorp.us <mailto:lr at pcorp.us>>
> Subject: Any features added to postgis between
> versions 2.1.3 and
> 2.2.1 worth mentioning in the Project Overview?
>
> Hi Brian, Barry, Regina,
>
> The OSGeo-Live Project Overview for postgis currently
> describes
> version 2.1.3, however version 2.2.1 is installed on
> the next
> OSGeo-Live9.5 release.
> Are there any features which should be added to the
> Project Overview,
> or does the doc just require a version update?
>
> You can see the latest nightly OSGeo-Live docs here:
> http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/overview/overview.html
> And docs are in git here:
> https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc
>
> Warm regards,
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter,
> Software and Data Solutions Manager
> LISAsoft
> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
> 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
>
> P +61 2 9009 5000 <tel:%2B61%202%209009%205000>, W
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>
>
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter,
> Software and Data Solutions Manager
> LISAsoft
> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
> 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
>
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>
>
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter,
> Software and Data Solutions Manager
> LISAsoft
> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
> 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
>
> P +61 2 9009 5000 <tel:%2B61%202%209009%205000>, W
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Cameron Shorter,
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