[postgis-users] Converting WKT or WKB

[Paul Ramsey]

On Sunday, February 6, 2005, at 10:37 AM, Abe Gillespie wrote:
>
> The second idea is to just use a third party library to do the parsing 
> for me.  I see there's a java one, but I'm looking for a .Net happy 
> library.

Carbon Tools probably includes some WKB and WKT handling functions. It 
is .Net.  Also, I would hope that ArcObjects could ingest WKB? Hope?

> Also, and this is OT from the subject, but how do you specify to 
> PostGIS whether the geometries are stored as WKT or WKB?  Mine are all 
> WKT and I'm curious in case down the road I want to use WKB.

The internal storage format is neither WKT nor WKB. You only get those 
at output time, when the geometry is retrieved.

Paul

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