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commit ffca75a77c4c0451e7a451ddff6841eb49ce2c00
Author: Martin Davis <mtnclimb at gmail.com>
Date: Tue Dec 8 12:11:34 2020 -0800
Minor Doc changes
diff --git a/doc/using_postgis_dataman.xml b/doc/using_postgis_dataman.xml
index 8e6e935..b10b874 100644
--- a/doc/using_postgis_dataman.xml
+++ b/doc/using_postgis_dataman.xml
@@ -665,9 +665,9 @@ The GEOMETRY type calculates a meaningless cartesian distance between Reykjavik
</sect3>
<sect3 id="geometry_columns">
- <title>The GEOMETRY_COLUMNS VIEW</title>
+ <title>The GEOMETRY_COLUMNS View</title>
- <para><varname>GEOMETRY_COLUMNS</varname> is a view reading from database system catalogs.
+ <para><varname>GEOMETRY_COLUMNS</varname> is a view reading from database system catalog tables.
Its structure is as follows:</para>
<programlisting>\d geometry_columns</programlisting>
@@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ The GEOMETRY type calculates a meaningless cartesian distance between Reykjavik
</sect3>
<sect3 id="Manual_Register_Spatial_Column">
- <title>Manually Registering Geometry Columns in geometry_columns</title>
+ <title>Manually Registering Geometry Columns</title>
<para>Two of the cases where you may need this are the case of SQL Views and bulk inserts. For bulk insert case, you can correct the registration in the geometry_columns table
by constraining the column or doing an alter table. For views, you could expose using a CAST operation.
@@ -857,7 +857,7 @@ but the constraint based one does not.</para>
vw_pois_ny_parks | geom_2160 | 0 | GEOMETRY</screen>
<para>This may change in future versions of PostGIS, but for now
-To force the constraint based view column to register correctly, we need to do this:</para>
+to force the constraint-based view column to register correctly, you need to do this:</para>
<programlisting>DROP VIEW vw_pois_ny_parks;
CREATE VIEW vw_pois_ny_parks AS
SELECT gid, poi_name, cat,
@@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ SELECT f_table_name, f_geometry_column, srid, type
</sect3>
<sect3 id="OGC_Validity">
- <title>Ensuring OpenGIS compliancy of geometries</title>
+ <title>Ensuring Geometry is OpenGIS Compliant</title>
<para>PostGIS is compliant with the Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC)
OpenGIS Specifications. As such, many PostGIS methods require, or more
@@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ SELECT f_table_name, f_geometry_column, srid, type
geometric class includes specific conditions that further detail geometric
simplicity and validity.</para>
- <para>A <varname>POINT</varname> is inheritably <emphasis>simple</emphasis>
+ <para>A <varname>POINT</varname> is inherently <emphasis>simple</emphasis>
as a 0-dimensional geometry object.</para>
<para><varname>MULTIPOINT</varname>s are <emphasis>simple</emphasis> if
@@ -1626,9 +1626,6 @@ WHERE a.geom && b.geom
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/library/jts/dim9.html">GeoTools: Point Set Theory and the DE-9IM Matrix</ulink></para>
</listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Encyclopedia of GIS</emphasis> By Hui Xiong</para>
- </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect4>
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