[postgis-users] Seeking Funding for Faster PostGIS Indexes

[Paragon Corporation]

Eli,

Yes we've made a lot of progress.  We are in the code provenance phase and
then I think we are pretty much done.  

Paul,
I think part of the problem like I mentioned is we really got to make it
easier for people to give money to the PostGIS project.

To me that means:

Being able to support micro-donations
Getting our incubation act together so our funding can fall under the OSGEO
umbrella and people that need a non-profit  tax umbrella of some sort can
use that .
As strk suggested better outlining of these tasks and realistic effort
invovled to execute.

For this particular case -- I think the gains are just too far down the
horizon to really appreciate -- I know a year or a half doesn't seem like
much but it seems like eons to many.
Of course for this particular case -- this could be funneled thru the
PostgreSQL non-profits since its not a PostGIS only benefit.

Just some guesses.

Thanks,
Regina 
http://www.postgis.us


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Eli Adam
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 4:46 PM
To: PostGIS Users Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Seeking Funding for Faster PostGIS Indexes

Any progress since the end of last year when I asked about the option to
contribute to PostGIS through OSGeo?

Thanks, Eli

>>> On 6/9/2011 at 1:20 PM, in message
<BANLkTi=KyjUJgFFdJ14AHNt=jP6=bjweQQ at mail.gmail.com>, Paul Ramsey
<pramsey at opengeo.org> wrote:
> This is a once-in-a-blue-moon opportunity to make your PostGIS an 
> order of magnitude faster... I'm surprised there has been so little 
> response!
> 
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at opengeo.org> wrote:
>> One of the eye-opening talks of PgCon last week was the presentation 
>> from Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev on their work on spatial 
>> partitioning indexes in PostgreSQL. Oleg and Teodor are the 
>> maintainers of the GiST framework we use for our r-tree, and are 
>> proposing a new framework to allow quad-tree and kd-tree 
>> implementations in PostgreSQL.
>>
>> http://www.pgcon.org/2011/schedule/events/309.en.html
>>
>> The upshot is, this new approach is as much as 6-times faster than 
>> the r-tree (at least for points). If you're interested in seeing 
>> PostGIS indexes get vastly faster, consider funding this project. Get 
>> in touch with me directly for details.
>>
>> http://blog.opengeo.org/2011/05/27/pgcon-notes-3/
>>
>> P.
>>
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