PostGIS
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9recommend
1warn against
Nov 13, 2025first mention
Oct 1, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“excellent plugins like pgvector and PostGIS”
“PostGIS is also another very useful addition for storing, indexing, and querying geospatial data.”
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“No mention of https://postgis.net/ - shameful”
“postgres PostGIS index for location finding scaled well enough for Uber”
Caveats and dissent
“PostGIS took multiple days to process the million-vertex Norwegian national parks”
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“PostGIS”
“Stack: React/TypeScript, Python/FastAPI on AWS Lambda, Aurora PostgreSQL + PostGIS.”
“Flask/PostGIS backend serving spatial queries”
“It's heavily processed OSM data with PostGIS.”
“excellent plugins like pgvector and PostGIS”
“PostGIS is also another very useful addition for storing, indexing, and querying geospatial data.”
“No mention of https://postgis.net/ - shameful”
“stored in a PostGIS database”
“postgres PostGIS index for location finding scaled well enough for Uber”
“Is PostGIS king in this area?”
“PGLite extensions: https://pglite.dev/extensions/#postgis”
“We use postgis, trino and iceberg to build and validate topologically accurate geodata.”
“We use that exact function [1]”
“you can automatically convert any PostGIS table (with geometry or geography column) to GeoJSON”
“Also https://postgis.net/”
“PostGIS has been one of the most requested extensions for PGlite and we've recently ported it.”
“PostgreSQL with PostGIS for spatial queries”
“Together with PostGIS, it's a powerful tool.”
“PostgreSQL/PostGIS for geo queries”
“Also see PostGIS for Postgres systems”
“I use PostGis to storage and serve vector tiles.”
“PostGIS took multiple days to process the million-vertex Norwegian national parks”
“postgis is so good”
“The gis community would be all over this.”
“hosted in a timescaledb PostGIS database”