Steve, thank you a lot! You solved my question.<div><br><div>I checked my geography using <a href="http://www.gcmap.com/mapui">http://www.gcmap.com/mapui</a> and realised I was wrong. It seems I completely don't understand geography.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you again.</div><div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Bulat Nigmatullin</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Stephen V. Mather <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:svm@clevelandmetroparks.com" target="_blank">svm@clevelandmetroparks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi Bulat,<u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">                Without
testing this myself, you might look to this blog post for a potential answer:<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://blog.opengeo.org/2012/04/30/the-earth-is-not-flat-volume-2/" target="_blank">http://blog.opengeo.org/2012/04/30/the-earth-is-not-flat-volume-2/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Best,<u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Steve<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><img width="90" height="122" src="cid:image001.png@01CD543C.5039F940" align="left" hspace="12" alt="http://www.clemetparks.com/images/esig/cmp-ms-90x122.png"><u></u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#006c56">Stephen
Mather<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#006c56">Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Manager<br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#006c56">(216) 635-3243<u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#006c56"><a href="mailto:svm@clevelandmetroparks.com" target="_blank">svm@clevelandmetroparks.com</a><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.clemetparks.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">clevelandmetroparks.com</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net" target="_blank">postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net" target="_blank">postgis-users-bounces@postgis.refractions.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bulat
Nigmatullin<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 27, 2012 3:25 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net" target="_blank">postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [postgis-users] Geography problem<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm trying to execute the following SQL:<u></u><u></u></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">SELECT ST_Covers(ST_GeogFromText('POLYGON((-22 61, 62 61, 62
48, -22 48, -22 61))'), ST_GeogFromText('POINT(37 55)'));<u></u><u></u></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">PostGIS returned me FALSE, but i'm expecting TRUE.<u></u><u></u></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">Please, tell me is this my error or PostGIS bug?<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">Bulat Nigmatullin<u></u><u></u></p>

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