PostGIS at 20, The Beginning · Paul Ramsey
Twenty years ago today, the first email on the postgis users mailing list (at that time hosted on yahoogroups.com) was sent, announcing the first numbered release of PostGIS. The early history of PostGIS was tightly bound to a consulting company I had started a few years prior, Refractions Research. My early contracts ended up being with provincial government managers who, for their own idio...
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