[postgis-users] Status and plans regarding circular arcs support?

[Andrea Aime]

Thanks Paul!

Cheers
Andrea

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:59 PM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>
wrote:

> Hi Andrea,
> In terms of "native" support for arcs, I believe the answer is "area,
> length, distance, indexes and supportive output formats", full stop.
> Everything else that accepts them does linearization.
> In terms of future improvements, I know of no ongoing work,
> particularly in the realm of things like constructive geometry or full
> predicate support. Unfortunately it's always been a somewhat narrow
> niche.
> ATB,
> P
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 8:24 AM, Andrea Aime
> <andrea.aime at geo-solutions.it> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > is there any document outlining the current status of arc support in
> > PostGIS?
> > In particular, a list of functions that can those that work off the
> native
> > curves, and those that  linear-ization instead (eventually, those that do
> > not work at all against curvilinear geometries)?
> > Maybe (and I might be dreaming here :-) ) with some indication of whether
> > they will be improvements in that regard?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Andrea
> >
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Andrea Aime

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