PostGIS 1.1.0 Released

December 21st, 2005 · 4 Comments · GIS, Mapserver, Open Source

PostGIS 1.1 has been released. The more I play with PostGIS, the more I see its power. Being able to run a spatial open source database is really beginning to appeal to me given the high price of Oracle Spatial or Oracle and ArcSDE. ArcSDE is already expensive enough without having to pay Oracle, IBM or Microsoft on top of that. I wish it was easier to use with ArcGIS as more of our clients might bite on using it, but coupled with Mapserver it works really nice.

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1 Matt M // Dec 21, 2005 at 6:57 pm

Given the somehwhat competitive relationship between Oracle and ESRI, with Oracle pitching Spatial against SDE, I am surprised that ESRI isn’t offerring better support for alternatives. I could imagine a distribution of SDE that came with Postegres, removing one step from a somewhat complex install…
2 Amit Kulkarni // Dec 24, 2005 at 1:42 am

The problem I see with PostGIS gaining traction is locking, multi-versioning, and transaction management in a multi-user environment. You are based on a rolling your own implementation even though the basic row-level locking is available in PostgreSQL. ArcSDE and Oracle Spatial has had time to hammer out its problems, and they are ahead.

From what I found in the last few weeks, GIS locking, long transaction support etc is somewhat like in Microsoft’s Visual SourceSafe days. When I moved to CVS and saw that you don’t need to check out, just let CVS handle merges, letting it yell only when it finds conflicts.

We (in GIS world) have yet to move upto CVS level, let alone Subversion.

Please correct me if I am wrong.
3 Calle // Jan 5, 2006 at 3:06 pm

Why use ArcGIS at all, it does not add anything more. You just need SQL99 and an OGC complient database. ESRI can’t make any of this yet. But in the next release??? no WFS-T is the future and who do you think will be first on that?
4 James Fee // Jan 5, 2006 at 3:11 pm

Our clients use ArcGIS so we use ArcGIS. I would love to use more OGC complient software, but as a consultant I need to focus on my clients.