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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em">via <a href="http://slashgeo.org" class="f">Slashgeo.org</a> by Satri on 4/8/11</div><br style="display:none">
<p>If I'm not mistaken, we mentioned only once the upcoming PostGIS 2.0 in the past. <a href="http://schwehr.org/blog/archives/2011-04.html#e2011-04-07T10_53_49.txt">Via Kurt</a>, I learned about this excellent article on <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/436048/">what's coming in PostGIS 2.0</a>.</p>
<p>From the article: <em>"This 2.0 release is poised to be an important milestone not just for speed and stability reasons, but because it extends the database into three new areas: raster data, topology, and 3D. [...] With 2.0, its [PostGIS Raster] functionality will be fully integrated into the main application. Naturally, loading and exporting is not the real work of supporting raster images in addition to vectors, so PostGIS 2.0 adds a slew of functions for analyzing and operating on the data inside the pixels. [...] PostGIS 2.0 adds extensive support for 3D, starting with two geometry types: polygonal surfaces and triangular irregular networks (TINs). [...] In addition to the new geometry types, the existing spatial indices have been made 3D-aware, and a library of 3D-functions added. [...] The last major extension of PostGIS functionality in the 2.0 release is support for topology."</em></p>
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