[postgis-users] FOSS4G 2009 Videos

[Paul Ramsey]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Maxime van Noppen <maxime at altribe.org> wrote:
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>> Last message from 2009, the videos of sessions have been linked into
>> the main website now and are all online, have a look, especially at
>> the State of PostGIS :)  http://blip.tv/file/2788616/   Sydney was a
>> grand conference, I hope all you members of the PostGIS family are
>> working on your travel plans to head to Barcelona for 2010.
>
> I was thinking about your talk and I have question. I am quite
> interested by all the geography stuff. Do you consider having a generic
> geography support for other planets than earth ?

Other planets could be handled when arbitrary SRID values are allowed.
So, it's an obvious extension, but one which someone is going to
probably have to step up and fund. However, even with the current
version, you could support Mars or Venus at compile time, easily
enough, by altering the constants for major- and semi-major- axis
before building PostGIS.

P.