[postgis-users] PostGIS case usages

[Birgit Laggner]

Hi Regina,

I work at a Federal Research Institute and we use PostGIS for various purposes. A very common use case is joining different spatial datasets (vector and sometimes raster) with ST_Intersects, e.g. to find out how agricultural land use is related to nature conservation areas or other protection areas, or to determine the land use changes over time to evaluate the effectiveness of certain political measures.

As far as I know, most PostGIS users at our institute have PostgreSQL databases on Linux machines.

Does that help?

Regards and success with the new book!

Birgit

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Von: "Regina Obe" <lr at pcorp.us>
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Gesendet: Freitag, 26. Oktober 2018 19:05:52
Betreff: [postgis-users] PostGIS case usages

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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