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If you are in Europe, particularly around Stuttgart, Germany and are an avid PostGIS user or just a curious passerby, you won't want to miss PG Day Europe December 6th - December 8th. There is still time to register.

There will be lots of PostGIS talks and tutorials including PostGIS 1.5 and beyond: a technical perspective, given by PostGIS core development team members Mark Cave-Ayland of Sirius and Olivier Courtin of Oslandia where they'll discuss what's in store in PostGIS 2.0 and beyond in addition to a stroll down memory lane of PostGIS 1.5.

Here is the complete line-up of PostGIS related talks:

• PostGIS 1.5 and beyond: a technical perspective by Olivier and Mark
• Discover PostGIS: GIS for PostgreSQL, by Vincent Picavet also of Oslandia
• PostGIS Tutorial by Mark Cave-Ayland: Intro to PostGIS
• PostGIS Tutorial by Mark Cave-Ayland: Advanced PostGIS
• PostGIS , OpenStreetMap, OpenLayers by Hartmut Holzgraefe
• PostGIS - das Wo? in der Datenbank (PostGIS the where? in the database) by Stefan Keller

Spots are closing fast. This will be the last week to register.

First I'd like to say if you haven't tried GIS Stack Exchange, give it a try. It's a good resource to ask GIS questions of all kind and get answers.

We haven't had a chance to try out the new Denali CTP1, and probably won't be able to get to it for another month or so. It does seem to have some new exciting features for both Spatial as well as the basic database features. We are also looking to do another compare shoot-out between SQL Server, PostGIS, and Oracle. Since PostGIS and SQL Server are the ones we are most familiar with, we'll do a bit of contrast and compare here