[postgis-users] How do you use PostGIS?

[David Bitner]

> > - Name of the organization 

Metropolitan Airports Commission (Twin Cities, MN, USA Airport Authority)

> > - Data being managed in the database 

Streets (w/address information)
Aircraft flight tracks
Complaint Locations
Noise Monitoring Towers

> > - How the data is being accessed / manipulated 

Data is displayed using Mapserver with custom PL/PGSQL for different
types of aggregation.

PL/PGSQL based geocoder.

Web queries from Mapserver and geocoder based locations done through
PHP, javascript, and xmlhttp requests.

Airspace analysis for airport noise.

> > - Why you chose to use PostGIS for the application 

Easy to develop with using PL/PGSQL
Easy interoperability with Mapserver
Price is right
Fast
Easy to manage

> > - What PostGIS feature or PostGIS-related software (not necessarily 
> > internal to PostGIS) would make your life much easier/better? 

Full 3-4 dimension support.