[postgis-devel] Old PostGIS address still listed at PostgreSQL webpage

[Regina Obe]

I think for a formal site like postgis.net  it's better to have approved case studies.

We should probably contact someone at those places as that's more believable anyway.  
I've started putting out personal  emails to companies I know that use PostGIS  to see if I can get some approved case studies from them.

Would help if others did the same.

Thanks,
Regina



-----Original Message-----
From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Nicklas Avén
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 5:47 PM
To: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Old PostGIS address still listed at PostgreSQL webpage



Do you think I can add this list without asking them?
I thought the best way was to let people tell their own story ...

But I think it is a shame that we don't mention organisations that we know use PostGIS, so I don't know ...

It would be cool to list for instance UN departments that uses PostGIS.
At least one mention here
http://2015.foss4g.org/united-nations-special-session/


Thanks

Nicklas


On Sun, 2016-03-20 at 21:47 -0400, Regina Obe wrote:
> Nicklas,
> 
>  
> 
> I'm blushing.  Glad to see some people appreciate my work.
> 
>  
> 
> I'm really also happy you are doing this and bringing this issue up, 
> because I forget how much weight (especially government agencies) put 
> on case studies.  PostGIS website section is pretty dated and 
> miniscule.
> 
>  
> 
> Getting back to case studies,   I have no issue with you posting them.
> We should also garner some big names besides CartoDb that use PostGIS.
> 
>  
> 
> I updated my case studies list:
> 
>  
> 
> http://www.postgis.us/page_case_studies
> 
>  
> 
> I'm not sure if FourSquare still uses PostGIS.  At the time I checked 
> they were and it was on their about page, but that page has since 
> become very generic.
> 
>  
> 
> I can check with my Facebook contact (that we did a day of PostGIS 
> training for), to verify if Instagram still uses PostGIS and if it has 
> spread elsewhere in Facebook and see if they'd be willing to write up 
> something about their use of it if they are still using it.
> 
>  
> 
> Socrata might be using PostGIS.  I assume they are using PostgreSQL 
> garnering from this tech article 
> https://www.socrata.com/developer-blog-article/streaming-geospatial-processing-in-the-socrata-platform/ , but that doesn't necessarily mean PostGIS as well.
> 
>  
> 
> As I recall I did see a  talk in PgConfUS (or was it FOSS4G NA) of FAA 
> (Federal Aviation) discussing their use of PostGIS.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Regina
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> From: postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On 
> Behalf Of Nicklas Aven
> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2016 6:06 AM
> To: 'Sandro Santilli' <strk at keybit.net>; PostGIS Development 
> Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Old PostGIS address still listed at 
> PostgreSQL webpage
> 
>  
> 
> I think I will just commit it to the web page if no one objects. It is 
> just copy paste from the 2 posts on users list. I put the senders of 
> the stories as authers. I will also try to get some more stories about 
> PostGIS usage.
> 
> Paul, where is the CartoDB story?
> 
> And Boundless ought to write something.
> Soon I hope to have a story to tell myself. And I hope that will also 
> lead to some more activity from my side :-)
> 
> Maybe we could also have some more personal stories. Letting everyone 
> that feel that they are part of the PostGIS project present themselfs?
> 
> I don't know, but I think the PostGIS project get too little credit 
> nowadays. Look at the stars at github. "Small" javascript libraries 
> gets thousands and PostGIS some hundred.
> 
> And I often think that there is people that get too little attention 
> for their very big effort. I do of course especially think about 
> Regina who is the name behind when people talks about the very helpful 
> PostGIS community. Both in answering questions and in making things 
> "just work" by testing from all angels and making many of the fixes.
> And of course by getting the job done to write a bunch of very 
> valuable books.
> 
> Thanks
> Nicklas
> 
> Skickat fr n min Sony Xperia -smartphone
> 
> 
> 
> ---- Regina Obe skrev ----
> 
> I'm indifferent.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandro Santilli [mailto:sandro.santilli at gmail.com] On Behalf Of 
> Sandro Santilli
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 1:16 PM
> To: PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Cc: Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us>; Paul Ramsey 
> <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
> Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Old PostGIS address still listed at 
> PostgreSQL webpage
> 
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:13:56PM +0100, Nicklas Av n wrote:
> 
> > I have copy pasted the text from the two case studies that was
> posted
> > to the users list into web pages.
> > 
> > Should I just commit or should anyone review?
> 
> Ah, good question. It isn't easy to review in a branch for SVN.
> Regina, Paul... how about putting this website under git/trac @osgeo ?
> I can set up the git repo pretty quickly :)
> 
> --strk;
> 
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