[postgis-users] PostGIS case usages

[Razy Kased]

Great examples of use-cases thanks for sharing.

Razy

On Sunday, November 4, 2018, Dylan Beaudette <dylan.beaudette at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Happy to elaborate on how we have used PostGIS to support SoilWeb for the
> last 10 years. This is a realtime interface to one of the largest spatial
> databases in the world.
>
> Dylan
> USDA-NRCS
>
> > On Oct 26, 2018, at 10:05 AM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
> >
> > Hey all.  So we've been in talks with our editor about having a 3rd
> Edition
> > of PostGIS hopefully to be released around the same time as PostGIS 3.0.
> >
> > I think they are more or less sold on the idea except they did ask about
> > current market share and usage.
> >
> > Part of the reason for that is our previous editions focused a lot on
> "How
> > do I use this function or do this weird sounding thing that only GIS
> people
> > can make sense of"  instead of "How do I do this real world thing"
> >
> > So one of the thoughts was having our table of contents be more like
> "How do
> > I do this with PostGIS" in somewhat laymen terms that most people can
> relate
> > to - like Political Districting, Real Estate analysis (walk scores,
> > elevation measurements to determine viablility of building on a plot of
> > land)
> > without scaring people off with "real world things" they can't relate to
> or
> > in overly techy terms.
> >
> > Also since the 2nd Edition (which was in 2015 super ancient now since the
> > New shiny version at the time was 2.1 and 2.1 is not even supported
> > anymore).
> > Other major thing changed is a lot of people are deploying PostGIS on
> cloud
> > offerings like Amazon RDS, Microsoft Azure, and Google PostgreSQL for
> Cloud
> > so we plan to cover a bit about some things relevant in those that may
> not
> > be relevant when deploying on your own server.
> >
> > That said, if people can respond with what things they are currently
> using
> > PostGIS for and also what hosting they are using for PostGIS, that would
> be
> > helpful for us to get a better idea of focus points.
> >
> > It'd be great if you posted on the list, but if you are shy or need your
> > usage anonymized, you can write directly to me.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Regina
> >
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