So... You probably need PostGIS if you’re writing a GIS/NIS style application or do analysis but not to show a few map pins on Google Maps. I personally like i

So... You probably need PostGIS if you’re writing a GIS/NIS style application or do analysis but not to show a few map pins on Google Maps. I personally like it and don’t even feel like it’s very “heavy” like the article implies. Great performance even when running locally on my laptop in my dev environment and with tens of thousands of objects in the topology. :)