Paul Ramsey and I recently had a Fireside chat with Path to Cituscon. Checkout the Podcast Why People care about PostGIS and Postgres. There were a surprising number of funny moments and very insightful stuff.
It was a great fireside chat but without the fireplace. We covered the birth and progression of PostGIS for the past 20 years and the trajectory with PostgreSQL. We also learned of Paul's plans to revolutionize PostGIS which was new to me. We covered many other side-line topics, like QGIS whose birth was inspired by PostGIS.
We covered pgRouting and mobilitydb which are two other PostgreSQL extension projects that extend PostGIS.
We also managed to fall into the Large Language Model conversation of which Paul and I are on different sides of the fence on.
In other related news, there will be 3 workshops directly related to PostGIS. If you are interested, come see us and take one of the workshops. All workshops will be on October 23rd and we have a selection of 15 workshops to choose from. Check out the schedule here.
Of particular note - PostgreSQL / PostGIS related workshops are
- Using PostGIS Leo and I will be giving this workshop in the morning. Learn all about PostGIS in 3 hrs. Come with your use-cases.
- pgRouting workshop Vicky Vergara will be giving this workshop in the afternoon and I'll be helping her out. A perfect companion to the Using PostGIS one especially if you've got roads, trains, and buses and other graphy things you need to apply routing algorithms to.
- Building an Enterprise GIS Workflow with QGIS and PostGIS workshop for afternoon. This one is also a perfect companion to the Using PostGIS workshop. This one slots are very limited and they are running out fast, so grab your seat before it's too late.
In addition to the workshops directly related to PostGIS, there are other workshops that will have elements of PostGIS and PostgreSQL, cause these use at least PostgreSQL under the hood.
