The FOSS4G2007 Call for Workshops is open! FOSS4G is a great place to learn about how people are using PostGIS and other open source software to get their work done. Or to teach people the cool techniques you use.
Paul Ramsey has submitted his "Introduction to PostGIS" workshop. Do you have a PostGIS-themed workshop idea? Submit your workshop idea, or make plans to come to FOSS4G and attend! September 24-27, 2007 in Victoria, British Columbia.
The 1.1.7 release of PostGIS is now available. This is a bug fix release, backporting improvements from the 1.2.x series to the 1.1.x series.
Fix for detection of GEOS versions. Fix for better cross platform support. Fix for JDBC compatibility with PostgreSQL 8.2. Fix for GCJ Java support. Fix for GiST index support with PostgreSQL 8.2.
The 1.2.1 release of PostGIS is now available. This is a minor bug fix release.
Fix for bug in Within() caused by point-in-polygon performance shortcut. Fix for bug in indexes with null on PostgreSQL 8.2. Fix for JTS handling of multi-dimensional data. Fix for GCJ Java support. Fix for JDBC compatibility in PostgreSQL 8.2. New AsKML() function. Better Transform() performance when no transform is actually required!
The 1.2.0 release of PostGIS is now available. This is a major new feature release, with the first PostGIS support for "curve" types, and initial support for the ISO SQL/MM suite of spatial database functions. Over time, the 1.2.X series will elabourate on the basic support provided in this release: New Curve type, based on the ISO SQL/MM model for curves. Index binding for curves, allowing them to use the same R-Tree indexes as the other types.
The 1.1.6 maintenance release of PostGIS is now available. This is a minor bugfix and compatibility release. The following changes have occurred: Fixed CAPI change that broke 64-bit platforms. Added Z ordinate to reprojections. Updated spatial_ref_sys.sql updated to EPSG 6.11.1. Simplified Version.config infrastructure to use a single pack of version variables for everything. Included the Version.config in loader/dumper USAGE messages. Replaced hand-made, fragile JDBC version parser with Properties. Fixed setSRID() bug in JDBC, thanks to Thomas Marti.
In the latest entry of our collection of case studies, read about how the EU Joint Research Centre is using billion dollar radar satellites and PostGIS to monitor fishing vessels in the North Atlantic and provide real-time reporting and mapping to decision makers and fisheries regulators.
In the latest entry of our collection of case studies, read about how Infoterra, a leading European satellite and aerial imagery provider, runs their data provision and sales systems on PostGIS, and stores the complete Ordnance Survey database (over 500M features!) on PostGIS.
In the latest entry of our collection of case studies, read about how the Institut Géographique National is using PostGIS to manage over 100 million topographic features in PostGIS/PostgreSQL and provide read/write access to over 100 field researchers around the country.
The 1.1.5 maintenance release of PostGIS is now available. This is a very minor bugfix and compatibility release. The following changes have occurred: Java: Removed obsolete synchronization from Jts code. Fixed nullpointer Exception in Geometry.equals() method Added EJB3Spatial.odt to fulfill the GPL requirement of distributing the "preferred form of modification" Added -S option for non-multi geometries to shp2pgsql Updated heavily outdated README files for shp2pgsql/pgsql2shp by merging them with the manpages.
In the latest entry of our collection of case studies, read about how Orchard Park, New York is using PostGIS to manage their physical infrastructure inventory.
