[geos-devel] troubles understanding GEOS

[Tobias Nothdurft]

Hi.

> If you want to use the quadtree-functionality of GEOS for some goemetry
> processing, you don't need PostgreSQL and PostGIS at all.
> 
> GEOS is just a geometry processing library, geos by itsself doesn't do
> anything with databases.
> 
> You can use PostGIS/PostgreSQL for storage of your geometries, or
> GDAL/OGR, but you don't have to.

I see!

But there has to be a gain to link my programm with some kind of database when i
have to handle hundreds or thousands of objects! :) So how do I accomplish this
connection? With the WKT-reader and -writer?

Tobias