[rubyn00bie]

PostGIS is one of those tools (along with Postgres as a whole, Redis also comes to mind) that has been a fucking pleasure to use and depend on. It works, brilliantly, is performant and fairly (relative to complexity) easy to use. If it wasn't for PostGIS I'd have been so far up shit creek at one point, I'd have needed climbing gear to go back down.

Big thanks to all the folks who have spent their time on it. You've created something truly fucking helpful <3

[angrygoat]

It has also taken a whole subfield, GIS, which was seen as difficult, expensive, and specialised, and made it possible to easily include geospatial functions in all sorts of projects.