[postgis-devel] Re: postgis front-end interface

[Paul Ramsey]

strk wrote:
> Trying to do WKB crunching for loader/dumper I came to this conclusion:
> postgis objects and functionality should be also available for front-end
> applications.
> 
> If we can handle GEOMETRY objects and convert them to/from WKB/WKT
> we will also be able to quickly write any convertion tool (eg. SVG).

As Dave said, passing postgis geometries no the wire is antithetical to 
OpenGIS principals. A possibly better approach would be to add a 
WKB-based constructor to GEOS, so that data can be read right off the 
wire as WKB and very easily converted into GEOS objects at the client. 
This is true of all client libs, of course. :)


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