[postgis-devel] ST_Area, ST_Area2D

[Obe, Regina]

Paul,
Ditto for these too?  ESRI and IBM just refer to this as ST_Length
--Docs have ST_Length2D and 3D but no ST_Length

ST_length2d(geometry)

    Returns the 2-dimensional length of the geometry if it is a
linestring or multi-linestring.

Just replace with ST_Length()? 
Both ST_Length() and ST_Length2d() map to -
LWGEOM_length2d_linestring

Now ST_Length3D() maps to LWGEOM_length_linestring

Which on closer tests - gives me the same answer as ST_Length() for a
2-d string.

Is there a reason why we can't just have a single documented 

ST_Length and state it works for both 2D and 3D strings?  and in future
versions just have all 3 map to LWGEOM_length_linestring

and deprecate the 2D and 3D names?

Thanks,
Regina

 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Paul
Ramsey
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 10:35 AM
To: PostGIS Development Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] ST_Area, ST_Area2D

Undocument it, and note that it is deliberately undocumented in the
.sql.in file, so we don't go and re-document it in the future.

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Obe, Regina <robe.dnd at cityofboston.gov>
wrote:
> Can I scrap ST_Area2D from docs and just replace with ST_Area? or is
> ST_Area2D really the preferred name?  They both map to
> LWGEOM_area_polygon, but
> the docs list the ST_Area2D one which seems a bit more verbose and
> unconventional.
>
> Both IBM and ESRI on quick search just call it ST_Area
> IBM -
>
publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9/topic/com.ibm.db2.udb.spatia
> l.doc/rsbp4034.html
>
> and Esri
webhelp.esri.com/arcgisserver/9.3/java/geodatabases/st_area.htm
>
>
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