[postgis-users] Anti-meridian and polar polygon question

Ken Tanaka Ken.Tanaka at noaa.gov
Wed Oct 20 12:59:24 PDT 2004



Paul Ramsey wrote:

>
> Currently only Informix (Geodetic Blade) and now DB2 (Geodetic 
> Extension) do complete handling of integrated global datasets. 
> PostGIS, like many other spatial databases, has cartesian assumptions.

Thanks for the quick reply. It would seem that other databases would 
move in that direction.



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