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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">All about PostGIS (at Portland PostgreSQL Users Group)</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2010-09-16T19:00:00" datetime="2010-09-16T19:00:00">Thursday, September 16, 2010 from 7</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2010-09-16T21:00:00" datetime="2010-09-16T21:00:00">9pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202389965'><span class='fn org p-name'>Free Geek</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">1731 SE 10th Avenue</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97214</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1731%20SE%2010th%20Avenue,%20Portland%20OR%2097214%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Location-based services are all the rage these days, and almost everyone has a latitude and longitude or two stashed away in a numeric column somewhere. But, there is so much more to it than just a point. Once relegated to government and academia, geographic information systems are becoming increasingly visible. With the PostGIS extension, PostgreSQL is a first-class geodatabase and an incredible platform for working with spatial data, but what is PostGIS and why would one use it? And beyond PostGIS there are a dizzying array of tools to load, visualize and interact with the wonderful geospatial information in your database. This talk will cover GIS and PostGIS basics and provide an introduction to geodatabases and spatial queries.</p> <p>--</p> <p>Edwin Knuth spent quite some time as a sysadmin and web developer before going back to school to study Environmental Science at the University of Alaska Southeast. He quickly became fascinated with Geographic Information Systems and realized that GIS was just a really neat database application. In Alaska, Edwin worked on several unique projects, including building bat detectors and using PostGIS to manage a wireless sensor network on the Juneau Icefield. He has lived in Portland for the past year and loves it very much.</p> <p>Then a trip to the Lucky Lab after.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://pugs.postgresql.org/node/1649">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>