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

[Ken Tanaka]

Thanks for mentioning this, I hadn't realized that Oracle had this 
capability. Although we use Oracle quite a bit, it's always had ArcSDE 
layered on top of it, which certainly doesn't handle ellipsoid based 
models in its current version. So we've been chopping things on the 
antimeridian to keep the ArcSDE layer happy.

-Ken

Richard_D_Levine at raytheon.com wrote:

>In a feeble attempt to amuse his dog (who is easily amused), Ken Tenaka wrote:
>
>"does anyone know of other spatially enabled databases that can also do
>this, either free or commercial?"
>
>This comes from an Oracle forum where somebody else asked exactly the same
>question:
>
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> From: Oracle, Gary Smith 02-Mar-04                                                                                   
> 21:00                                                                                                                
> Subject: Re : Oracle Spatial and                                                                                     
> geodec behavior                                                                                                      
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> Oracle Spatial's geodetic model allows                                                                               
> customers to specify geodetic                                                                                        
> geometries that span the 180 meridian,                                                                               
> and also geometries that encompass a                                                                                 
> pole (for example a polygon geometry                                                                                 
> that follows the 70 degree latitude                                                                                  
> line could represent a polygon that                                                                                  
> looks like a hat that covers a pole).                                                                                
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