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

[Barend Köbben]

Below the abstract of a project we started here at ITC
 Note that it is a summary of a paper submitted for the W2GIS2006  conference in December (http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/w2gis06/), so not all in here is already realised ;-)

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Abstract of paper submitted for The 6th International Symposium on
Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems
December 4-5, 2006, Hong Kong, China
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RIMapperWMS: a Web Map Service providing SVG maps with a built-in client

This paper introduces RIMapperWMS, a light-weight web mapping application that conforms to the Open Geospatial Consortium's  Web Map Service specification. It serves interactive web maps from a PostGIS spatial database back-end. Compared to the many existing WMS implementations, it stands out because it serves its maps in the Scalable Vector Graphics format. This allows it to offer high-quality vector cartography, with a built-in Graphics User Interface.  
RIMapperWMS was based on  the concept of GDIlight, which will be introduced in paragraph 2. Based on that concept, earlier projects that have been the basis of RIMapperWMS have been developed, and these will be briefly introduced in paragraph 3. The setup and requirements of RIMapperWMS are described in paragraph 4, and finally  some conclusions and an outlook to further developments will be offered in paragraph 

Keywords: Web Mapping, Spatial Databases, WMS, SVG, Java, PostGIS, MySQL. 5.
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Barend Köbben
International Institute for Geo-information 
Sciences and Earth Observation (ITC) 
PO Box 6, 7500AA Enschede (The Netherlands)
ph: +31 (0)53 4874253; fax: +31 (0)53 4874335
 

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> Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
> Sent: 12 July 2006 19:36
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: [postgis-users] Who is Using PostGIS? For What?
> 
> 
> 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!
> 
> Paul
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