Re: [postgis-users] Promoting PostgreSQL and PostGIS to wider business intelligence community

2020-09-24 Thread Shaozhong SHI
Hi, Ruven Brooks, Good points. I would think that you are correct. However, there are experts saying that people who work on PostgreSQL/PostGIS should consider work like data blending and generating reusable data products for desktop application users to consume new data products. Interesting

Re: [postgis-users] Promoting PostgreSQL and PostGIS to wider business intelligence community

2020-09-24 Thread karsten
wrong link - here it goes https://github.com/karstenv/dynamic_layers_qgis _ From: karsten [mailto:kars...@terragis.net] Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2020 15:29 To: 'PostGIS Users Discussion' Subject: RE: [postgis-users] Promoting PostgreSQL and PostGIS to wider business intelligence com

Re: [postgis-users] Promoting PostgreSQL and PostGIS to wider business intelligence community

2020-09-24 Thread karsten
Ruven: yes interesting thoughts and probably you are correct with many of your points. Regarding if PostGIS has a relevance to be used directly: that is a hard one to answer - depending what tools and skills a user has available in the tool belt However, in order to throw something into the e

Re: [postgis-users] Promoting PostgreSQL and PostGIS to wider business intelligence community

2020-09-24 Thread ruvenml
I doubt whether PostGIS has any direct value whatsoever for desktop application users.  At a very minimum,  using PostGIS directly requires a  knowledge of SQL.  In fact, the more knowledge of SQL a user has, the more powerful PostGIS will be.   SQL is usually taught in a database course which,

[postgis-users] Promoting PostgreSQL and PostGIS to wider business intelligence community

2020-09-24 Thread Shaozhong SHI
Though we have got some good examples of serving data to wider business intelligence community, we are still interested in finding excellent, compelling examples for showing the value of PostgreSQL/PostGIS as a data service to desktop application users. I just wonder whether there are excellent ex

Re: [postgis-users] Any tested script to generating topojson?

2020-09-24 Thread Shaozhong SHI
Hi, Steve W, None of these appear to be completed, just examples. Regards, Shao On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 20:56, Stephen Woodbridge < stephenwoodbridg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I haven't tried any of these, but there are a lot that look promising: > > https://www.google.com/search?q=topojson > https

Re: [postgis-users] Any tested script to generating topojson?

2020-09-24 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
I haven't tried any of these, but there are a lot that look promising: https://www.google.com/search?q=topojson https://www.google.com/search?q=topojson+postgis Have you tried some/all of these? -Steve W On 9/24/2020 3:42 PM, Shaozhong SHI wrote: Anyone is aware of that which script has been t

Re: [postgis-users] Any tested script to generating topojson?

2020-09-24 Thread Shaozhong SHI
Hi, Steve W, I am helping a colleague of mine to find out. He tried to generate topojson, but is not sure whether it meets topojson specifications properly. It will be nice to know one which works to the specifications each time, so that we get assurance. Regards, Shao On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at

Re: [postgis-users] Any tested script to generating topojson?

2020-09-24 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
What have you tried so far? What problems are you running into? -Steve W On 9/24/2020 3:42 PM, Shaozhong SHI wrote: Anyone is aware of that which script has been tested for generating topojson? It will be nice to have one which can guarantee generation of topojson properly, given tables with

[postgis-users] Any tested script to generating topojson?

2020-09-24 Thread Shaozhong SHI
Anyone is aware of that which script has been tested for generating topojson? It will be nice to have one which can guarantee generation of topojson properly, given tables with geoms. Looking forward to hearing from you. Regards, Shao ___ postgis-user