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I always love these little snippets of the history of how these projects come about. When you use something as established as PostGIS these days it’s easy to forget those few individuals that planted the seeds from which it formed.

It’s an absolutely wonderful project - hat tip to everyone who has made it was it is.



```When Dave had a working prototype, we hooked it up to our little applet and the thing sang. It was wonderfully quick,```

This is the thing that I most love about programming. Given a little time, making something just fly that wasn't possible before.




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