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

[P.Rizzi Ag.Mobilità Ambiente]

> > 1) How you use PostGIS?
We use it to store and manage urban streets network and related information.
I'm also experimenting using geometry fields to store and visualize 
time related information, like traffic flows, putting time on the X axis
and the corresponding sampled value on the Y axis.
Other offices we are working with, all use Oracle Spatial, so but I wrote 
a Java ETL library that let me effectively transfer data from/to 
PostGIS and Oracle.
So we can exchenge data with them without the burden of an Oarcle licence.

> > 2) What you find useful about it over anything else?
Price!!!

> > 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?
I probably woudln't by it for myself, but the existence of PostGIS 
related books is important to push it's adoption in offices where 
only Oracle Spatial (or ESRI) seems to be acceptable.
Sure enough I'd need it to be in Italian...

Bye
Paolo Rizzi


> Paragon Corporation 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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