[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #2051: ST_AsGeoJSON printing too many digits

PostGIS trac at osgeo.org
Wed Oct 17 02:49:09 PDT 2012


#2051: ST_AsGeoJSON printing too many digits
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 Reporter:  strk     |       Owner:  pramsey      
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  medium   |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.0.2
Component:  postgis  |     Version:  2.0.x        
 Keywords:           |  
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Comment(by colivier):

 Scientific notation should only occur when there's no other way to
 represent the coordinates. like in the unit test:  POINT(1E300 -1E300)

 As i recall it was a user ticket who lead to this fix

 GeoJSON is small enough not to say anything about scientific notation,

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/2051#comment:7>
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