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

[Gregory S. Williamson]

> It is that time of year again (conference time) so I am going to ask my
> annual question(s):
> 
>      Who are you?

 GlobeXplorer LLC, Walnut Creek CA <www.globexplorer.com>

>      What are you using PostGIS for?

 Support for processing new imagery coming into us; tracking the shape of all raster data for use in runtime queries; storing and retieving vector data of various sorts (floodplains, parcels, streets, POIs, etc.); processing of logs to ascertain usage by various geographic criteria.

>      Why did you choose PostGIS?

 Cost, excellent support, extensibility, OGC compliance, works & plays well with different languages (JAVA, perl, etc.)

>      What makes you happy about your PostGIS installation?

 Cost, excellent support, extensibility, OGC compliance; compatability with the JTS which the JAVA side of the house uses.

>      What makes you unhappy about your PostGIS installation?

 Minor at this point, but some concern about the need to dump entire databases when upgrading versions ("The bigger they come ...")

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>  start by giving us a summary here on the list!

Oracle 8i tried but couldn't; Informix could and did but was on the costly side, and PostgreSQL/PostGIS could & did, and was in the sweet-spot costwise. It's grown as we have, and we have plans, fancy plans,and postGIS is integral to a lot of them.

Greg Williamson
DBA
GlobeXplorer LLC