Recent News

Free & Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference 2008

Sept 29 - Oct 3, 2008

FOSS4G 2008 – this year in Cape Town, South Africa – is the conference to attend to meet the people who make open source geospatial software go. Project leaders, corporate supporters, implementers, and users all get together to tell their stories, share some fun, and learn.

PostGIS 1.3.3 Release

April 12, 2008

The 1.3.3 release of PostGIS is now available. This release includes bug fixes and some minor feature enhancements.

  • Improvements in the shp2pgsql/pgsql2shp utilities
    • Better windows support
    • DBF-only loading support
    • Support for OS/X 10.5
    • Output for Date types in DBF
  • New function ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology( geometry, float8) to simplify polygons without creating invalid geometry
  • KML support updates (from Eduin Carillo)
  • SVG support updates (from Marco Hugentobler)

PostGIS Improves Your Golf Game?

March 14, 2008

We recently heard from the folks at Savannah Harbor Golf Club & Spa about how they used PostGIS to help map and report on their course. Check out the story: here

History of PostGIS

February 9, 2008

There is a short history of PostGIS, from conception to current state, available now on the Refractions web site. Have a look!

PostgreSQL Online Journal

December 17, 2007

PostGIS has received a nice overview write-up in the PostgreSQL online journal. Money-quote:

“There is perhaps nothing more powerful in the geospatial world than the succinct expressiveness of SQL married with spatial operators and functions.”

All News

PostGIS 1.3.3 Release

April 12, 2008

History of PostGIS

February 9, 2008

PostgreSQL Online Journal

December 17, 2007

PostGIS 1.3.2 Release

December 1, 2007

PostGIS 1.3.1 Release

August 13, 2007

Workshops @ FOSS4G 2007

February 11, 2007

PostGIS 1.1.7 Release

January 31, 2007

PostGIS 1.2.1 Release

January 11, 2007

PostGIS 1.2.0 Release

December 8, 2006

PostGIS 1.1.6 Release

November 6, 2006

Case Study : Infoterra, UK

October 24, 2006

PostGIS 1.1.5 Release

October 14, 2006

PostGIS 1.1.4 Release

September 27, 2006

PostGIS is OpenGIS Compliant!

September 1, 2006

PostGIS @ FOSS4G 2006

August 25, 2006

Case Study : GlobeXplorer

August 14, 2006

PostGIS by the Numbers

July 12, 2006

PostGIS 1.1.3 Released

June 30, 2006

PostGIS 1.1.2 Released

March 30, 2006

PostGIS 1.1.1 Released

January 22, 2006

PostGIS 1.1.0 Released

December 21, 2005

PostGIS 1.0.6 Released

December 6, 2005

PostGIS 1.0.5 Released

November 25, 2005

PostGIS 1.0.4 Released

September 9, 2005

PostGIS 1.0.3 Released

August 7, 2005

PostGIS 0.9.2 Released

July 25, 2005

PostGIS 1.0.2 Released

July 5, 2005

GEOS 2.1.3 Released

July 4, 2005

GEOS 2.1.2 Released

June 8, 2005

PostGIS 1.0.1 Released

May 24, 2005

PostGIS 1.0.0 Released!!!

April 20, 2005

PostGIS 0.9.1 Released

December 12, 2004

PostGIS 0.9.0 Released

September 10, 2004

PostGIS 0.8.2 Released

May 27, 2004

RPMs Released for PostGIS

February 24, 2004

PostGIS 0.8.1 Released

January 12, 2004

PostGIS 0.8.0 Released!

November 24, 2003

GEOS 1.0 Released!

November 6, 2003

PostGIS 0.7.4 Released

February 12, 2003

PostgreSQL 7.3 Support Added

December 5, 2002

PostGIS 0.7.3 Released

September 5, 2002

PostGIS 0.7.2 Released

September 1, 2002

PostGIS 0.7.1 Released

May 14, 2002

Mailing List and Archives

March 27, 2002

Reprojection Support

January 8, 2002

About PostgreSQL 7.2B

December 17, 2001

PostGIS 0.6.2 Released

November 7, 2001

Release 0.6.0

September 19, 2001

Mapserver Information

August 3, 2001

Release 0.5

July 20, 2001

Release 0.2

June 19, 2001

Pre-Release 0.1

May 31, 2001