X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93170DB08F for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:47:15 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 43175-04 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:47:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from eastrmmtao01.cox.net (eastrmmtao01.cox.net [68.230.240.38]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0469CDAC75 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:47:13 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.0.17] (really [24.170.195.108]) by eastrmmtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20051029014647.QBIB13165.eastrmmtao01.cox.net@[192.168.0.17]>; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:46:47 -0400 From: Robert Treat To: Arnulf Christl Subject: postgis / mediawiki / postgresql was Re: [Freegis-list] Re: [GENERAL] Map of Postgresql Users (OT) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:47:17 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Claire McLister , pgsql-www@postgresql.org, Brent Wood , postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net, MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU, freegis-list@intevation.de, cavallini@faunalia.it, mapbender-users@lists.sourceforge.net References: <7def66b8e277ec3dcfb0e90f001194fa@zeesource.net> <436200FB.4090400@ccgis.de> In-Reply-To: <436200FB.4090400@ccgis.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200510282147.17612.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.004 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.004] X-Spam-Score: 0.004 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200510/117 X-Sequence-Number: 8705 On Friday 28 October 2005 06:44, Arnulf Christl wrote: > Yet another idea: Mediawiki (the > Wikipedia software) is also right now introducing geometries to the Wiki > database - obviously also using PostgreSQL/PostGIS. This would be > another cool multiplier.. and there we also meet with Google again. Wha? mediawiki is planning to use postgis with thier software? I'm currently working with some folks on a working port of wikimedia to postgresql (allowing things like transactions and full text searching all in the same database). That would certainly seem to dovetail into this... you have any links I could read up on the wikipedia/postgis effort on ? -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL