[postgis-users] Sample usages of analytic functions

[Pierre Racine]

I think it would be nice to have a new simple GIS desktop application based only on PostGIS. When you open a shapefile or an image, it is imported in PostGIS. The GUI of the GIS would be just an SQL statement builder sending queries to PostGIS, producing temporary or permanent tables and displaying them. So the application is just a client to the database. All the process is done in the DB.

Pierre

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:postgis-users-
> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Alvin Cheung
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 1:17 PM
> To: postgis-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [postgis-users] Sample usages of analytic functions
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> The PostGIS reference manual lists a lot of powerful built-in functions for
> processing and analyzing spatial data. However, I haven't been able to find many
> open-source applications that make use of such analytic capabilities beyond
> those that use relatively simple functionalities such as ST_X / ST_Centroid /
> ST_Area.  I am wondering if anyone has suggestions for applications that exploit
> PostGIS built-in functions to larger extents?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alvin