This month we we will be giving two mini-tutorials at PgCon East 2010 on Saturday, March 27th.
The topic of the talks will be, you guessed it, PostGIS. We have changed our Beyond talk to PostGIS: Adding spatial support to PostgreSQL
to a beginner focus instead of an intermediate focus. Topic content will be more or less the same but focused more on people new to spatial database analysis. Our web applications talk will cater more to the web developer trying to integrate PostGIS in their web applications.
Marcus Rouhani of the Federal Aviation Administation will also be talking about the Airport GIS
project and migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
On a somewhat related note, we also hope to be finished with all the chapters of our upcoming book
this month. We just completed the first draft of our Chapter 10: PostgreSQL Add-ons and ancillary tools. After some back and forth with our editor, this will
be up on MEAP, available for read and comments for early book buyers. Still two more chapters to finish after that before we get to the polishing
of the text, images, layout and final print version.
Our publisher Manning is running a 50% off sale this Friday (tomorrow or is it today) on any MEAP book and they have a lot of interesting ones in the pipeline (including ours).
Waiting for PostGIS 2.0
The OSGEO just completed a recent coding sprint in New York. The New York sprint was a meeting of the minds
of OSGEO people from various projects -- PostGIS,
Mapserver, Geoserver,
OpenLayers, GDAL, and some others
were represented. Sadly we were not able to attend this one. A summary of the sprint with a PostGIS bent
can be found on Olivier Courtin's New York sprint summary (Original French Version)
and Olivier Courtin's New York sprint summary (Google English translation)
and Paul's New York sprint summary.