We are excited to announce the release of Hasura 2.0.0-alpha.8! This continues our journey towards 2.0 being fully feature stable. And, while ‘alpha’ in name, it is not alpha in quality.

In this post we will look at building a data-heavy realtime geo-location app with PostGIS and Hasura GraphQL to plot nearby restaurants in a map.

Use Hasura Remote Joins to join geography data from PostGIS extension in your Postgres database with Google Places API in GraphQL.

Announcing native support for PostGIS topology operators in GraphQL

A primer to building backends for location-aware applications using postgres and GraphQL