State of PostGIS

Session Type: 
Tech Session
Presenter(s): 
Paul Ramsey, OpenGeo

What can PostGIS do? What features does it have? What has changed in recent versions? What new features are upcoming in future releases? This talk will cover the history and development of the PostGIS spatial database server.

Speaker Bio: 

Paul Ramsey is an geospatial consultant with OpenGeo, an expert in open source software, and a founder of the PostGIS open source spatial database project. Paul is a director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, and has been a long time advocate for making intelligent use of open source in systems design. Paul speaks and teaches frequently at conferences on the use and abuse of open source geospatial software

Schedule info

Time slot: 
Wed, 09/14/2011 - 10:00am - 10:30am
Room: 
Windows