[postgis-users] Seamlessly handling lat/long coordinates

[Lance Arlaus]

All-

 

I wanted to follow up on a thread from the other week.  I don't know if this
question is appropriate for this list or if it belongs on devel instead.

 

I'm new to GIS, but I can't help wondering what it would take to enable
PostGIS to easily handle lat/long coordinates.  It seems like such a common
use case that I'd really like to understand what the hurdles are.  It would
be great to have the ability to get distances, create buffers, and perform
boolean operations without going through intermediate transformations.

 

Can someone give me some more insight into the problem?  DB2 Geodetic was
mentioned as a product that already accomplishes this, so it sounds like
it's possible.

I hope this doesn't come off as obnoxious - that's certainly not the intent.

 

Thanks,

Lance

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