[Portugal] [Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] PostGIS Topology pledge: 2 people have signed up, 8 more needed]

[Giovanni Manghi]

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> From: Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net>
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> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] PostGIS Topology pledge: 2 people have signed
> up, 8 more needed
> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:18:01 +0100
> 
> This is just a reminder about the fundraising drive aimed at improving
> the PostGIS topology support in upcoming 2.0 release.
> 
> << I will implement a Geometry to TopoGeometry importer in
>    PostGIS-2.0 but only if 10 other people will donate 250 euro. >>
> 
>       http://www.pledgebank.com/postgistopology
> 
> The idea is that such a new function would make it extremely simple
> for you to start using topology for your layers. As simple as:
> 
>   UPDATE layer SET topo_geom = toTopoGeometry('layertopo', geom);
> 
> You could use the topological representation just to cleanup the data [1],
> to produce a pyramid of simplified versions or simply for storage and
> exchange with other systems (topological GML output already available).
> 
> [1] http://strk.keybit.net/blog/2011/11/21/topology-cleaning-with-postgis/
> 
> As of today 2 people have signed (thank you Andreas!, thank you Brian!).
> It will take 8 more signatures to get it started.
> 
> The pledge deadline is December 20th.
> Go postgis community, go !
> 
> --strk;
> 
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