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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

That company is just a cult more than anything else. It irks me to no end that they require a license to do anything. Edit? More money. Spatial Analysis? Even more money. Oh you want to share that thing you made? Lets get you started on the cloud/portal/server plan. Oh you want that server to have any kind of uptime? Better buy the monitor tool!

Everywhere you turn with those ass hats it is another license, more bugs, and slower.

I move almost all GIS functions into SQL. Postgis is a miracle worker and foreign data wrappers in postgres are just awesome. If I need a viewer/editor than Qgis is fanstastic too.

ESRI has the nerve to come up with a way to make web pages and call them "Story Maps". Get the hell out, that is just a web page!

But their cult loves to belong, and think that GIS means ESRI. They are like addicts.

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

If you don't know SQL at all, that is where you will need to start.

If you know enough to get the idea and are ready to go further than this might help https://postgis.net/documentation/training/

and this is the best book on the subject: PostGIS In Action https://postgis.us/

Postgresql is the database, Postgis is an extension. All modern databases are spatial, but postgis adds so much more. For example, maybe you reproject something with ArcGIS. In Postgis you simply select with the new projection on the fly.

You can clip, linear reference, compare, etc, all the spatial functions you do in a gis tool. Raster, vector, point data, etc.