[postgis-devel] Update Documentation

[Obe, Regina]

> I had
>a very good laugh when someone pointed out our descriptive definitions.
 > Honestly, I never paid much attention to this before:

>ST_ConvexHull() - returns the convex hull of this geometry
>ST_Centroid() - return the centroid of the geometry
>ST_Touches() - returns true if the geometries "spatial touch"
>ST_Crosses() - return true if the geometries "spatial cross"

Well I pointed out the ConvexHull one I think.  Maybe someone else did before me.  I did get a kick out of those definitions too.   Seems almost a shame to get rid of them because you can't go wrong with them :).

A lot of definitions are decent though.  Besides once you have it as meta data in the database it will be easier to pinpoint the laughable ones with a simple regular expression select.


>In the end, I think this would be the best approach.  But I'm not sure
>about stitching it back together.  I think a single page would be far
>too large to load (with all the new content and pictures for every
>function).  Perhaps a single page for constructors, a page for
>accessors, etc.

By stitching I was thinking more along the line of for generating the PDF version.  I still like the PDF version a lot as a handy take away.  I just wish the table of contents in the PDF was more thorough, but I suppose we can make it so when we separate things out a bit more.

Thanks,
Regina


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