Re: Linuxday 2007 visit in Berlin

Hi Andreas,

>GIS is a very hot theme: the freeGIS group was present, flightgear is
>using PG and GIS for storing map data. Intevation GmbH is providing GIS
>solutions and support for authorities.

We have an open source solution geGIS with a working demo on
http://www.gegis.org/gegis/application.do?app=demo under GPL license.

We are using PostgreSQL to store the data. In the demo only data of one
community is shipped, but there are wizards to store your own data.

geGIS is an aggregation of different open source solutions, where PostgreSQL
is one off for data storage. Our own core product, 'MAJAS' is in prerelease
downloadable on http://www.cadrie.com/

If you're interested, we can give a talk on FOSDEM in why choosing
PostgreSQL as one of the components. (we've met on FOSDEM early this year
...)

sincerly
Dirk Frigne
W: www.dfc.be
www.gegis.org
www.cadrie.com
www.frigne.be

>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van: pgsql-advocacy-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-advocacy-
>owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] Namens Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
>Verzonden: vrijdag 1 juni 2007 15:49
>Aan: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
>Onderwerp: [pgsql-advocacy] Linuxday 2007 visit in Berlin
>
>
>Hello all,
>
>I'm back from my one-day trip to the Linuxday 2007, this year in
>Berlin. The German PG User Group was not present with a booth. My trip
>was (among other things) to decide, if we will have a booth next year.
>
>Judging last and this years visitors, the LD seems to be back in
>business, so i recommend to be present in 2008.
>
>The different BSD groups want to organize some more presence and have
>asked, if we want to join them in something like "BSD use cases".
>Sounds interesting to me, also because the BSD groups did a great job
>with flyer sponsoring (they have some really good PostgreSQL flyers
>available) in the past and helped out from time to time, if we had to
>leave the booth for a short time. The BSD people have the same problem
>as the PostgreSQL people: it seems, that many companies are using
>PostgreSQL. But since the BSD license does not require to publish the
>source or even tell the customer, what OS/database is used, almost
>nobody knows about BSD/PostgreSQL. Why do we know? From time to time,
>this companies have a problem they cannot solve and then they are
>asking in a forum, on a mailinglist or even on IRC. But we should not
>wait until problems appear, if we want to know about the PostgreSQL
>usage in companies.
>
>GIS is a very hot theme: the freeGIS group was present, flightgear is
>using PG and GIS for storing map data. Intevation GmbH is providing GIS
>solutions and support for authorities.
>
>
>Kind regards
>
>--
> Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
>German PostgreSQL User Group
>
>
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