PostGIS fulfills Postgres's original promise
PostGIS fulfills Postgres's original promise
Posted Mar 31, 2011 11:43 UTC (Thu) by brugolsky (guest, #28)Parent article: Here be dragons: PostGIS 2.0 adds 3D, raster image, and topology support
It really pleases me to see all the activity around PostGIS; Stonebraker designed Postgres with this kind of application in mind. Back in 1992, before that WWW thing took off, I was hacking alone, under contract, on image photo-interpretation algorithms, and was using Postgres's spatial operators (and PostQuel's extensible query language infrastructure) in the data store.