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

[Jay Cummins]

1) How you use PostGIS?
I use it at home for self-teaching of spatial databases and for trying
GIS software such as uDIG and QGIS.
Using PostGIS relaxes me.  If I have a bad day at work on the ESRI
stack, I'll either have a beer or play with PostGIS (sometimes both).

2) What you find useful about it over anything else?
It's cheaper than therapy and it doesn't impair my ability to drive afterwards.


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?

YES!


-Jay Cummins



On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> Leo and I have a good portion of a PostGIS book written.  Ideally we would
> like to get a publisher to publish it, but seem to be running into the same
> obstacles.  No publisher seems to think people use PostGIS to warrant enough
> demand for a book dedicated to it.
>
> So to make a decent case for a book, can each of you in your own words
> describe
>
> 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?
>
> Of course I'll also need some official download stats etc. which hopefully
> the Refractions group can help out with.  I think Mark Cave-Ayland had
> posted some stats a while back, but can't find them.
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
>
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