[postgis-users] PostGIS Usage Survey
ahallam at digitalearth.com.au
Wed Feb 5 15:37:09 PST 2003
> - Name of the organization
Digital Earth Pty Ltd (geospatial and web application development
> - Data being managed in the database
Weather forecast districts used to dynamically show the location of weather
warnings. Topographic data (just playing with this).
> - How the data is being accessed / manipulated
MapServer 3.6 used to present maps to browser users - thematically shaded
polygons and topographic vectors.
JDBC used to update PostgreSQL tables (attributes to spatial data).
Spatial data loaded using shp2pgsql.exe
> - Why you chose to use PostGIS for the application
1. We required a mechanism that would let a Java web application (running
on Tomcat) update the spatial data attributes.
2. Had to run on Windows or Linux. We ended up using Cygwin to run it on
3. Low cost.
4. Open. OpenGIS leanings, acessible via JDBC, etc.
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