[postgis-devel] PostGIS 1.1.7

[Mark Leslie]

The spec can be downloaded from www.iso.org for the low low price of CHF340.
For this release, GEOS doesn't handle them.  The next release should
provide the ability to convert the curves into linestrings, pass them to
geos functions, then reclaim the curves once returned.  Eventually GEOS
will be upgraded to support them properly.
As for the WKT/WKB, full parsing support isn't there yet.  I will update
the SERIALIZED_FORM doc, and include some examples in the postgis.xml,
but it won't be fully filled out until I have the time to implement it
properly.
Mark

Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hi, Thomas,
> 
> Thomas Marti (HSR) wrote:
> 
>> * How about some documentation? Don't see much in here:
>> http://svn.refractions.net/postgis/trunk/doc/postgis.xml
>> Is there more somewhere?
> 
> Yes, I think we need more information there.
> 
> Does anyone have an URL where this multimedia specification can be
> downloaded?
> 
>> * What about matching Java type(s) in the PostGIS-JDBC driver?
> 
> There aren't any, currently, I'm afraid.
> 
> It should be easy to extend the org.postgis.Geometry with appropriate
> subtypes (as they only have to represent the data), but I don't have any
> idea of how a JTS mapping for those geometries will work.
> 
> Btw, how does the GEOS backend handle those geometries?
> 
>> * Is there a description how (E)WKB looks for curved types?
> 
> I'll need that, too, for writing appropriate Java mappings.
> 
> HTH,
> Markus