[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #231: New distance-calculations proposal

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#231: New distance-calculations proposal
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  Reporter:  nicklas      |       Owner:  robe         
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned     
  Priority:  medium       |   Milestone:  postgis 1.5.0
 Component:  postgis      |     Version:               
Resolution:               |    Keywords:               
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Comment (by nicklas):

 Ok, I agree with your arguments.[[BR]]

 Is your first proposal maybe the best alternative ST_ClosestPoint(A,B)

 [[BR]]
 My problem with that is that I intuitively feels that ST_ClosestPoint(A,B)
 returns a point from B. I think it maybe is because I have a feeling that
 my perspective should be from the first geometry and then I'm interested
 in the closest point in the second geometry. Like me being in a polygon of
 a country asking for the closest point in another country. Then I'm not
 intrested in a point in my own country.
 But I don't know it that perspective makes sense for anyone else :-)

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