Birgit, Yes that helps a lot.
Thanks, Regina > -----Original Message----- > From: postgis-users [mailto:postgis-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf > Of Birgit Laggner > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 7:28 AM > To: PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users@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" <l...@pcorp.us> > An: postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org > CC: "PostGIS Development Discussion" <postgis-de...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
