PostGIS 2.2.3 Released

The PostGIS development team is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS 2.2.3 As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs and breakages.

PostGIS 2.3.0 Released

The PostGIS development team is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS 2.3.0. This is the first version to utilize the parallel support functionality introduced in PostgreSQL 9.6. As such, if you are using PostgreSQL 9.6, we strongly encourage you to use this version.

Parallel support will make many queries using PostGIS relationship operators and functions faster. In order to take advantage of parallel query support, make sure to set max_parallel_workers_per_gather to something greater than 0 as noted in max_parallel_workers_per_gather PostgreSQL runtime configs

Best served with [PostgreSQL 9.6+] which is due out this week and pgRouting 2.3.0 which also just got released.

Packages from maintainers will be out in the coming days and weeks.

PostGIS 2.3.0rc1 Released

PostGIS 2.3.0rc1 is feature complete, so we’re looking for testing and feedback! Best served with PostgreSQL 9.6rc1 and pgRouting 2.3.0-rc1

Please give this release candidate a try and report back any issues you encounter. New things since 2.3.0beta1 release

Please report bugs that you find in this release.

Important / Breaking Changes

3466, Casting from box3d to geometry now returns a 3D geometry (Julien Rouhaud of Dalibo)

PostGIS 2.3.0beta1 Released

PostGIS 2.3 is feature complete, so we’re looking for testing and feedback! Best served with PostgreSQL 9.6.

Please give this beta a try and report back any issues you encounter.

Please report bugs that you find in this release.

** Important / Breaking Changes **

3466, Casting from box3d to geometry now returns a 3D geometry (Julien Rouhaud of Dalibo)

Nautilytics Case Study

Nautilytics is a small data visualization and GIS startup based out of Boston, MA. We use PostGIS and PostgreSQL, among other open-source tools to build powerful web applications for US government organizations, public, and private sector companies.

PostGIS for fast prototyping and Research

I used extensively postgis (+ecosystem) for my phd thesis, in several ways. The first is that PostGIS is a good steady horse (elephant?): a database is the perfect place to store a lot of very different information in the same place and put them in relation. For geospatial data, postgis means you always have a way to put data in relation (are they at the same place?).

Plenario (Univeristy of Chicago)

The Urban Center for Computation and Data (UrbanCCD) is a research initiative of Argonne National Laboratory and the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago. We create computational tools to better understand cities. One of these is Plenario, our hub for open geospatial data. PostGIS makes the spatial operations at the heart of Plenario possible.

PostGIS 2.2.2 Released

The PostGIS development team is happy to release patch for PostGIS 2.2, the 2.2.2 release. As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs and breakages.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

#3463, Fix crash on face-collapsing edge change
#3422, Improve ST_Split robustness on standard precision double systems (arm64, ppc64el, s390c, powerpc, …)
#3427, Update spatial_ref_sys to EPSG version 8.8
#3433, ST_ClusterIntersecting incorrect for MultiPoints
#3435, ST_AsX3D fix rendering of concave geometries
#3436, memory handling mistake in ptarray_clone_deep
#3437, ST_Intersects incorrect for MultiPoints
#3461, ST_GeomFromKML crashes Postgres when there are innerBoundaryIs and no outerBoundaryIs
#3429, upgrading to 2.3 or from 2.1 can cause loop/hang on some platforms
#3460, ST_ClusterWithin “Tolerance not defined” error after upgrade
#3490, Raster data restore issues, materialized views. Added scripts postgis_proc_set_search_path.sql, rtpostgis_proc_set_search_path.sql
#3426, failing POINT EMPTY tests on fun architectures

See the full list of changes in the news file and please report bugs that you find in the release.

Clever Maps

Clever°Maps’ is a three years old startup based in the Czech Republic. We create web apps for four distinct market segments:

business/location inteligence - helping companies to make decisions based on data, not on feelings
farming - simplifying agenda and everyday work
road infrastructure administration - settlement of land property rights, treaty evidence, speeding up the whole administrative process
assets administration - treaty management, land purchases

Vanguard Appraisals

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Vanguard Appraisals is new to the GIS world. In fact, we aren’t really in the GIS world; we just kind of brush up against it. We do mass property appraisal for entire county and city jurisdictions, and we develop software to collect, price and maintain values. We also host assessment data online so that homeowners can search and find property information much simpler from the comfort of their own home. Our software and websites are used in 7 states (IA, IL, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD).