Identity & Authority: PostGIS – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

PostGIS

(https://postgis.net) 📸 Data Snapshot: May 24, 2026
Identity & Authority — The Lens

Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.

Identity & Authority Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
14 Impact Weight: 15 / 100
93% Reputation

Authority is established through technical transparency, though a minor gap exists in Person schema representation. While the ‘PostGIS development team’ is mentioned as the authority, the schema_json lacks sameAs links to individual contributors or maintainers. Technical credibility is high, supported by a clean heading hierarchy and functional technical article schema.

There is no disconnect between marketing claims and technical reality. The site makes no bold productivity or revenue claims, focusing exclusively on functional capabilities like ‘Spatial Indexing’ and ‘Geometry Processing.’ Performance is implied through technical versioning and patch notes rather than unsubstantiated marketing slogans.

Identity & Authority is read from the structured data first: whether the site declares who it is in machine-readable schema, with verifiable identity links. Below is the schema captured per page, then the external proof links that support (or fail to support) that identity.

🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps
Homepage schema
{
    "@context": "http://schema.org",
    "@type": "WebSite",
    "name": "PostGIS",
    "url": "https://postgis.net/",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
    "inLanguage": "en"
}
/development/source_code/
{
    "@context": "http://schema.org",
    "@type": "TechArticle",
    "articleSection": "Development",
    "name": "Source Code",
    "url": "https://postgis.net/development/source_code/",
    "headline": "Source Code",
    "description": "Where to find the source repository and released source code",
    "wordCount": "144",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
    "inLanguage": "en",
    "isFamilyFriendly": "true",
    "mainEntityOfPage": {
        "@type": "WebPage",
        "@id": "https://postgis.net/development/source_code/"
    },
    "copyrightHolder": "PostGIS",
    "copyrightYear": "2022",
    "dateCreated": "2022-02-01T00:00:00.00Z",
    "datePublished": "2022-02-01T00:00:00.00Z",
    "dateModified": "2022-02-01T00:00:00.00Z",
    "publisher": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "PostGIS",
        "url": "https://postgis.net/",
        "logo": {
            "@type": "ImageObject",
            "url": "https://postgis.net/brand.svg",
            "width": "32",
            "height": "32"
        }
    }
}
/2026/04/PostGIS-Patch-Releases/
{
    "@context": "http://schema.org",
    "@type": "TechArticle",
    "articleSection": "News",
    "name": "PostGIS Patch Releases",
    "url": "https://postgis.net/2026/04/PostGIS-Patch-Releases/",
    "headline": "PostGIS Patch Releases",
    "description": "The PostGIS development team is pleased to provide bug fix and security releases for PostGIS 3.2 - 3.6.",
    "wordCount": "64",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
    "inLanguage": "en",
    "isFamilyFriendly": "true",
    "mainEntityOfPage": {
        "@type": "WebPage",
        "@id": "https://postgis.net/2026/04/PostGIS-Patch-Releases/"
    },
    "keywords": [
        "release",
        "3.6",
        "3.5",
        "3.4",
        "3.3",
        "3.2"
    ],
    "copyrightHolder": "PostGIS",
    "copyrightYear": "2026",
    "dateCreated": "2026-04-14T00:00:00.00Z",
    "datePublished": "2026-04-14T00:00:00.00Z",
    "dateModified": "2026-04-14T00:00:00.00Z",
    "publisher": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "PostGIS",
        "url": "https://postgis.net/",
        "logo": {
            "@type": "ImageObject",
            "url": "https://postgis.net/brand.svg",
            "width": "32",
            "height": "32"
        }
    }
}
/news/
{
    "@context": "http://schema.org",
    "@type": "TechArticle",
    "articleSection": "News",
    "name": "News",
    "url": "https://postgis.net/news/",
    "headline": "News",
    "wordCount": "0",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
    "inLanguage": "en",
    "isFamilyFriendly": "true",
    "mainEntityOfPage": {
        "@type": "WebPage",
        "@id": "https://postgis.net/news/"
    },
    "copyrightHolder": "PostGIS",
    "copyrightYear": "2026",
    "dateCreated": "2026-04-14T00:00:00.00Z",
    "datePublished": "0001-01-01T00:00:00.00Z",
    "dateModified": "2026-04-14T00:00:00.00Z",
    "publisher": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "PostGIS",
        "url": "https://postgis.net/",
        "logo": {
            "@type": "ImageObject",
            "url": "https://postgis.net/brand.svg",
            "width": "32",
            "height": "32"
        }
    }
}
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
0Review mentions (all pages)
0External proof links (all pages)
PageReviewsProof links
/ (home) 0 0
/development/source_code/ 0 0
/2026/04/PostGIS-Patch-Releases/ 0 0
/news/ 0 0