[postgis-users] PostGIS case usages

[Regina Obe]

Birgit,

Yes that helps a lot.

Thanks,
Regina

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> From: postgis-users [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf
> Of Birgit Laggner
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 7:28 AM
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS case usages
> 
> 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
> 
> ----- Urspr ngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Regina Obe" <lr at pcorp.us>
> An: postgis-users at lists.osgeo.org
> CC: "PostGIS Development Discussion" <postgis-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> 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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