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Subject: Re: [postgis] SRID for LAT/LONG
From: "Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders () tincan ! org>
Date: 2001-09-28 22:33:22
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.10.10109281518510.12506-100000 () tincan ! org
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I'm going to severely trim so this doesn't keep getting longer and
longer.
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Dave Blasby wrote:
> The problem with using LAT/LONG has to do with the math involved in
> making "simple" calculations is really really really difficult.
Yeah I remember this stuff from surveying courses. Ouch I feel my head
aching again!
>
> PostGIS assumes your locations are in rectangular coordinates (X,Y).
> You can run into troubles if you put in lat/long co-ordinates.
OK so I'll need to convert to 'some' other coordinate system. I've been
collection free data and the last bunch came in LAT/LONG - therefore my
questions.
> Also, the bounding box maybe incorrectly calculated. For example,
> the bounding box for LINESTRING(25 25, 40 25) will be BOX3D(25 25 0,
> 40 25 0)
So the bounding boxes are 3D even if there is no z coord ie. assuming 0
elevation.
> On the other hand, postgis has no problem storing lat/long/height
> information. There's even a few functions ( length_spheroid(),
> length_spheroid3d() ) for doing calculations on an ellipsoid.
This something new. I don't see it in the documentation for 0.6.
> Note that OpenGIS [incorrectly] calls ellipsoides "spheroids".
Everyone knows circles are just degenerate ellipses! Does this mean
OpenGIS is degenerate? ;-)
Thanks for the time and explanations,
Rod
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