The second release candidate is now available, with bug fixes from RC1. Please download it and try it out!

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The first release candidate of new PostGIS 1.0 series is now ready for general download and testing. The 1.0 series is actually a departure from the previous 0.X series, in that the underlying disk representation of geometries is completely new. The new "lightweight" geometries are much smaller (particularly for 2D …

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PostGIS 0.9.1 is a minor maintainance release, including the following new features: AsSVG() function Reverse() function New Spatial_Ref_Sys table The release also includes numerous small bug fixes.

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PostGIS 0.9.0 is an important maintainance release, including the following new features: PostgreSQL 8.0 Support PostgreSQL 8.0 Statistics Integration VACUUM ANALYZE now automatically updates spatial selectivity stats PostgreSQL 8.0 Windows Support GEOS 2.0 Support GEOS 2.0 includes important enhancements to …

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PostGIS 0.8.2 is an important maintainance release, including the following new features: PostgreSQL 7.5 Support PostgreSQL 7.5 Statistics Integration Optional Experimental Light-weight Geometry (LWGEOM) Faster queries Smaller databases Four dimensional geometry New functions The release also includes numerous …

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PostGIS 0.8.1 is a bug fix release with some fixes to memory handling and the interface with GEOS.

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We are very happy to announce the release of PostGIS 0.8.0, the first version of PostGIS that supports every function in the OpenGIS "Simple Features for SQL" specification document. The PostGIS 0.8.0 source code includes the OpenGIS SFSQL conformance test suite, so give it a try and see how we do! Version 0.8 …

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The first release of GEOS (geometry engine, open source) has been released at https://libgeos.org/. Using the GEOS library, it is possible for PostGIS to perform all the operations in the OpenGIS Simple Features for SQL Specification. That means that operations like Touches(), Contains(), Intersection(), Buffer(), …

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El manual de PostGIS fue traducido al español por Manuel Martín Martín. Puede descargarlo aquí.

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David Blasby and Chris Hodgson, gave a presentation and workshop on using Mapserver and PostGIS to create web mapping sites which embed interesting analytical results not normally producable using flat file data. The talk materials are available online: a presentation, a workshop guide, and an example mapfile.

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