[postgis-users] complete newbye

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, William,

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:53:30 +0200
william <wdebs_stern at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> Basically I'm trying to understand how things works. I couldn't find
> no documents or drawings of  the internals of PostGis
> nor any descriptions of PgArc principles, but maybe I'm dumb and I
> have missed these informations somewhere ?

PostGIS is an implementation of the OpenGIS simpl features for SQL
specifikation. So first see their definitions as it is relatively
detailed (e. G. the geometry model).

See http://www.opengis.org/

The PostGIS Documentation gives some hints about some additional
functions, and GIST indices etc.

http://www.postgis.org/


HTH,
Markus
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