PostGIS at 20, the Beginning
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PostGIS at 20, the Beginning
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#2I always love these little snippets of the history of how these projects come about. When you use something as established as PostGIS these days it’s easy to forget those few individuals that planted the seeds from which it formed.
It’s an absolutely wonderful project - hat tip to everyone who has made it was it is.
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#3Great historical background - thanks Paul!
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#4I recently had to start working with GIS data and also didn’t want to be bound to anything ESRI related. I picked up PostGIS (along with the SQLite one Spacialite) and it’s really a dream to use. This history bite is really cool!
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#5Much of the interesting work I've been able to do in the last five years is entirely due to the hard work put into PostGIS to make it an excellent open-source GIS platform.
Kudos to all involved, and especially Paul for his work spearheading and maintaining it for so many years!
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#6PostGIS is popular and fine, but is there a front end framework available designed to work with it, so that one can fully avoid the proprietary ESRI stack?
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#7Great historical background - thanks Paul!
Agreed - what a great story!
Re: PostGIS at 20, the Beginning
#8I always love these little snippets of the history of how these projects come about. When you use something as established as PostGIS these days it’s easy to forget those few individuals that planted the seeds from which it formed. It’s an absolutely wonderful project - hat tip to everyone who has made it was it is.
```When Dave had a working prototype, we hooked it up to our little applet and the thing sang. It was wonderfully quick,```
This is the thing that I most love about programming. Given a little time, making something just fly that wasn't possible before.
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#9PostGIS is popular and fine, but is there a front end framework available designed to work with it, so that one can fully avoid the proprietary ESRI stack?
QGIS or Geoserver, or GDAL for lower level stuff.
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#10PostGIS is popular and fine, but is there a front end framework available designed to work with it, so that one can fully avoid the proprietary ESRI stack?
There's https://www.qgis.org/en/site/ but when I've worked with web based projects we've used Django and made a custom UI for it. It depends on what type of data you want to display though, for us it was map data so we just used https://leafletjs.com/