[postgis-users] The Old Who is using PostGIS survey again?

[MarkW]

1) Use for: shared data storage, adding basic spatial functionality to
websites, automating some spatial processes with scripting, and as a
mapserver back-end.
2) Find useful over others: well-established, great documentation & active
support community, easy entry
3) Why a book: there is good documentation online - very good. But the docs
cannot cover enough SQL examples, integration with other tools, or highlight
examples of a range of uses. I would buy the book if it had lots of good
examples/samples and/or if I could hand it to a colleague and say "read this
to get up to proficiency with PostGIS." I hope it can have both.

I think the Tyler book and the Kropla book really helped more people get
into Mapserver (and open source gis) - different people learn different
ways, and a book available through mainstream sources (Amazon, Borders)
could really help.

Mark

P.S. Okay, I'll buy the book no matter what really - having seen all the
helpful answers you've posted here. Let us know when the "pre-order forms
are available.

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:

>
> 1) How you use PostGIS?
> 2) What you find useful about it over anything else?
> 3) Why you think there should be any book written focused on its use and of
> course if such a thing were to exist, would you buy it?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-users/attachments/20081230/122c35cd/attachment.html>