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Subject: Re: [postgis-users] PointM, PolyLineM, PolygonM
From: Paul Ramsey <pramsey () refractions ! net>
Date: 2003-02-28 17:21:05
Message-ID: 3E5F9A81.5070203 () refractions ! net
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What do people think about supporting measures in general? There are two
possibilities:
(a) keep the geometries as they are and have and "measure dependant"
functions assume that the coordinates are (X,Y,M)
(b) expand to 4-d standard geometries, (X,Y,Z,M)
I lean towards option (a), since most people aren't even using xyz
geometries now, let alone xyzm. A little flag on the geometry could
indicate whether the geometry is xym or xyz.
Any then of course we'd need to figure out what useful "measure-smart"
functions would be useful for a LRS implementation in postgis.
P.
strk wrote:
> Hello Jeff,
> are you planning to include any kind of support for
> shapefile "measured geometries" types in shp2pgsql ?
>
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