[postgis-users] Who is Using PostGIS? For What?

[Paul Ramsey]

Just to provide some context to the group about "PostGIS in the world" 
here are some statistics from the web presence:

- 1101 mailing list members
- 24117 hits per day on web site
- 3532 visits per day on web site
- 100 downloads per day of source code
- top search string references "postgis" and "shp2pgsql"
- 813000 google search results

Paul Ramsey wrote:

> It is that time of year again (conference time) so I am going to ask my
> annual question(s):
> 
>     Who are you?
>     What are you using PostGIS for?
>     Why did you choose PostGIS?
>     What makes you happy about your PostGIS installation?
>     What makes you unhappy about your PostGIS installation?
> 
> Those who want to remain in confidence, but still want to make their
> feelings known, please respond to me directly.
> 
> I am going to be writing up a handful of PostGIS users into full 
> white-papers for the web site and my own conference talks, so please, if 
> you think you have a compelling PostGIS story, start by giving us a 
> summary here on the list!
> 
> I love hearing these stories!