Busy month for PostGIS

Presentations Galore

This was right before OSCON 2009 and sadly we missed it. Brian Hamlin gave intro talk on PostGIS and OSGEO in general and they have videos. What works with Postgres The Open Geo Data Interoperabilty Overview. Videos can be downloaded from http://media.postgresql.org/pgday-sjc-09/

1. We gave one on PostGIS spatial tips and tricks show-casing some of the nifty features in PostGIS 1.4 and PostgreSQL 8.4. You can access the slides here and data here
2. Chander Ganesan gave a talk on "Spatializing your Data with PostGIS, GeoDjango & OpenLayers". His slides are up as well.

with the OpenGeo gang of Paul Ramsey and Steven Citron-Pousty giving a workshop on the OpenGeo GeoStack stack with PostGIS being part of that stack.

PostGIS 1.4 is out

PostGIS 1.4 came out the week of OSCON. Finally we can move on to worrying about 1.5. If only we could get GEOS 3.2 to compile under MingW We can now compile GEOS 3.2 trunk under mingw so hope to be releasing windows PostGIS 1.5 experimental binaries very shortly. Lots of neat stuff already cooking in 1.5. We have new buffer logic and ST_HausdorffDistance and other side things going on like improving speed of distance functions and Paul tooling on geography and typmod lots of healthy discussions about typmod.

PostGIS is nearing incubation

Last but not least PostGIS is coming closer to being an OSGEO incubation project. Our defacto steering committee is feeling a bit more real.