[thornygreb]

seriously though, if I had a nickel for everytime one of the gis staff asked me to process something for them using postgis because arcgis would crash on them I would be rich. it seems like gis staff have turned into pretty map makers and most of the real processing and such is done in open source tools (postgis, gdal and python)

[thrtythreeforty]

Totally concur; I've been giving myself a crash course in GIS as I ship for a house. Seems like a lot of GIS tools, although very flexible, are not built to handle a city's worth of fine-grained data. PostGIS is the only one who loves me!

[dsq]

I'm curious what a (consumer-level) house seeker can do with PostGIS that existing services can't provide. Do you merge and use datasets, etc. I was thinking of doing this in my own house search, and I would be happy to hear some pointers...