The first group-funded PostGIS development project has committed results to the CVS! Intevation, Imagelinks and Rod Anders of ACM all contributed to the funding of the 7.2 index support project. Chris Hodgson and Dave Blasby of Refractions Research did the work. The goal of the project was to expedite the support of …

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On April 9, 2002, Paul Ramsey gave a presentation at GeoTec2002 on open-source relational databases in a session on open-source GIS technologies. The presentation slides are available (PPT|PPT Japanese).

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Version 0.7.1 includes an important bug fix to the spatial indexing and fixes to report compilation problems.

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Version 0.7.0 includes two major improvements over the last release: Support for PostgreSQL 7.2 Support for coordinate reprojection inside the database In addition there have been numerous bug fixes and minor improvements.

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The [postgis-users] mailing list has been moved onto the main PostGIS site,along with the online list archives. Subscription information, archives, and searching are all available from the postgis-users page.

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The CVS version currently is way ahead of the release version in feature richness. Apologies, but this is because features are being added for consulting projects and we do not have time to do a release and all the accompanying documentation etc. Reprojection is supported via the PROJ4 library. The SQL function name …

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PostgreSQL 7.2 is currently in beta, and people might be tempted to try to use it with PostGIS 0.6.2. Unfortunately, due to a change in the API hooks for the GiST index, PostGIS 0.6.2 will not work with PostgreSQL 7.2. When PostgreSQL 7.2 is officially released, work on converting PostGIS to support the new indexes …

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Version 0.6.2 is mostly a bug fix release with fixes for the Shape file loader. There is also a SQL file full of spatial reference definitions to load into the SPATIAL_REF_SYS table. Astute observers will note the addition of the postgis_chip.c file. This is the start of support for raster datatypes. There is no …

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The slideshow Dave used for his OSDB2 presentation is available (PDF|PPT|Japanese PPT). Without his inimitable delivery, it is not nearly the same. :)

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We have a new, hopefully more aesthetically pleasing, site design now! At a minimum, the multiple-page approach gives more space for adding information. Also, version 0.6.1 has been released, with improvements to the loader/dumper and some cygwin bug fixes.

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