The Open Source Geospatial Community, PostGIS, & Postgres | POSETTE 2024

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Video of a conference talk about the open source geospatial community presented by Regina Obe at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024. PostGIS, introduced in 2001, is one of the oldest Postgres extensions around. But PostGIS is not just built on Postgres. PostGIS is a love child, born of the Postgres community and the vibrant open source geospatial community. Today many geospatial applications house their data in Postgres, because of PostGIS. And PostGIS is usually one of the first data sources to be supported by new geospatial tools, whether open source or proprietary. More importantly, folks who know little about spatial can get up to speed with PostGIS quickly and build geospatial applications—with nothing but an application layer that understands how to work with SQL. In this talk you’ll learn how (and why) PostGIS came about, and how the open source geospatial community has huge bodies of data that will continue to place demands on PostGIS and Postgres into the future. Regina Obe is President and co-founder of Paragon Corporation, a Boston-based PostgreSQL/PostGIS consulting company. She is a member of the PostGIS, pgRouting, and GEOS project steering committees, as well as a development team member of several geospatial projects and Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) System Administration team. She is the maintainer of the PostGIS application stackbuilder Windows Bundle. Regina has also co-authored several popular books on PostGIS, pgRouting, and PostgreSQL

Published 2024-06-13 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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