[postgis-devel] Oracle SDO_GEOMETRY vs PostGIS WKT

[Nicklas Avén]

Hallo

>
>Yep, like other companies developing propietary software. The point is
>I don't understand why using a mix of numbers and arrays whose
>elements index tables to simply represent a polygon. Saving storage
>space? I don't know. The PostGIS way, closer to OGC standard, is much
>easier, IMHO.
>

I don't know what this Oracle representation looks like but from above it sounds like it might be about some topological model. 
In PostGIS representation I guess it is difficult to describe two neighbor polygons without repeating the shared vertexes for both polygons?

/Nicklas


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