[postgis-devel] #1898: ST_DelaunayTriangles option to output as TIN

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:49:09AM +0200, Tom van Tilburg wrote:
> This would be really, really cool for building model-outputs.
> Imagine the power of combining raster-dems and vector breaklines
> into a tin. It would even open the way for doing modelling work from
> within your postgis dbase.
> 
> Is there any prospects on the making of this?

Interested in helping or co-funding ?

> And wouldn't  the toTopoGeom() function come close to creating TIN's
> out of the geometry triangles?

toTopoGeom populates a topology, doesn't strictly need TIN but should
already be playing nicely with either the COLLECTION of LINES output
from Delaunay.

TIN is a pretty new type, not much support for it, yet, but yes, it
would be useful if not else for transporting TINs (input/output formats!)


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