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GeoForAll: Happy PostGIS Day :-)
On behalf of GeoForAll community, I am pleased to share the latest edition of our newsletter. Thanks to Dr Nikos Lambrinos (Chief Editor) and our amazing team of editors for making this possible. Dow…
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Post GIS Day 2022 Celebrations
I didn't think last two years Post GIS Day conferences could be topped, but I was wrong. This year's was absolutely fabulous and better than all the others. We had two key conferences going…
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Who are the Biggest PostGIS Users?
The question of “who uses PostGIS” or “how big is PostGIS” or “how real is PostGIS” is one that we have been wrestling with literally since the first public release back in 2001. There is no doubt …
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Inscribed and bounding circles in PostGIS
Today, I’m revisiting work from 2017. In Brezina, Graser & Leth (2017), we looked at different ways to determine the width of sidewalks in Vienna based on the city’s street surface database. I…
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PostGIS at 20, The Beginning
Twenty years ago today, the first email on the postgis users mailing list (at that time hosted on yahoogroups.com) was sent, announcing the first numbered release of PostGIS. The early history of P…
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SMASH 1.6.3 is out - experimental Postgis
We just released SMASH 1.6.3 on the stores. It should be available within the day.This is basically a bugfix release, but we decided to also release one feature that will be very important in the futu…
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PostGIS 3.0.0beta1
The PostGIS development team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.0.0beta1. This release works with PostgreSQL 9.5-12RC1 and GEOS >= 3.6 Best served with PostgreSQL 12RC1 and GEOS 3.8.0beta1 both of…
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PostGIS Talks @ FOSS4G North America
I presented my “PostGIS for Managers” talk for the last time (at least in this form) today at FOSS4G North America. The reason it’s for the last time is that the central conceipt it’s built around, th…
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Verslag: NLExtract Hacking Day
Afgelopen donderdag (26 april) was de eerste NLExtract Hacking Day, ruim zes jaar nadat de huidige Github repo is aangemaakt en bijna zeven jaar nadat BAGExtract+ door Matthijs van der Deijl online is…
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Swiss PGDay 2016
Dear OSGeo Community The Swiss PGDay 2016 is a conference on PostgreSQL and PostGIS. It takes place at the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil (Switzerland) on Fri. June 24, 2016. The con…