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Greg,
That's great to hear. I hope Amazon starts shipping before their slated April 28th.
And my review is up: http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/en/2011/04/postgis-in-action.html
Thanks Greg,
I agree the postgresql.conf was something we should have spent more time on at least adding that link you mentioned in that area. Since I think that is the number one question that is asked. The SQL Primer probably randomly ordered because at that time Leo was too tired polishing everything to be bothered with with what I wrote there. He's the grand organizer. You can probably tell which parts he wrote. As far as maps go -- to be honest my great draw to GIS is because I always had trouble with maps and still do. I once took an aeronautics competency test and the guy giving it was baffled by my scores "According to this section you are a genius and according to this section you are a complete idiot". He might have said it in nicer terms, but needless to say I can't navigate my way out of a paper bag :).
Greg,
Forgot to mention, if you are interested in the TIGER geocoder, the one in PostGIS 2.0 we upgraded for Tiger 2010. It still works fine with PostGIS 1.5, so we might back-port it. It is now also part of the Official PostGIS manual. http://www.postgis.org/documentation/manual-svn/Extras.html#Tiger_Geocoder We are still cleaning out some windows croft in the loader scripts to make it work better for Linux/Unix users. Side note -- why is the commenting system on your blog in Italian? Thanks, Regina
I certainly know how hard it is to get a book that size completely polished. Thanks for the TIGER news, if I ever get around to finishing that project I talked about I may just jump right to PostGIS 2.0. It was satisfying to find the right approach to the problem I was stumped by before.
The 2ndQuadrant blog is hosted on servers at our Italian office. I know the comment part could be better. I did at least get the review published to Planet PostgreSQL, that didn't work at first this week.
Bruce,
Thanks. I see Amazon is shipping now too so guess other's will get theirs soon too if they haven't already. |
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