[postgis-devel] WKT and Wikipedia

Kevin Neufeld kneufeld at refractions.net
Fri Jun 27 15:06:38 PDT 2008


You got it.
-- Kevin

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> No account needed to edit, just edit.
> No, I don't think we should reference anything that's not actually an
> improvement on what we provide ourselves.
> P.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Kevin Neufeld <kneufeld at refractions.net> wrote:
>> I just came across this page:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_text
>>
>> I think this page is incorrect, misleading, and contains typos.  It is my
>> understanding that the OGC specs on WKT does *not* include 3D and 4D
>> definitions.  It is a PostGIS extension to use Z, M, or ZM. Or am I off on
>> this?
>> (http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=829) (section 3.2.5.2)
>>
>> I don't have an account to correct this.  Does any here have one?  Do we
>> care?
>>
>> Should the new PostGIS docs reference such pages, or point to only the OGC
>> specs?
>>
>> -- Kevin
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