[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #1329: Change BOX3D to be SRID and dimension aware

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#1329: Change BOX3D to be SRID and dimension aware
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 Reporter:  robe         |       Owner:  pramsey      
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  medium       |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.1.0
Component:  postgis      |     Version:  trunk        
 Keywords:  box          |  
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Changes (by strk):

  * keywords:  => box


Comment:

 So back to this issue. I'd want a real "box" type which can hold SRID and
 any number of dimensions. It can be float or double I don't really care at
 this very moment, but it's a way to easily handle a rectangle, get its
 width and height, grow it or shrink it, expand to include a point or
 another box etc...

 It could be the only type on which indices and bounding-box based
 operators are
 defined and would have an implicit cast from all types (raster, geometry,
 geography, TopoGeometry) to take advantage of those indices and operators.

 A good next step will likely be a wiki page, to link here.

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