[postgis-users] Converting WKT or WKB

[Abe Gillespie]

Thanks for the help, I'll take a look at carbon tools.

As far as I know ArcObjects can't parse WKB ... but I'll look into that 
too.  ;)

-Abe

On Feb 6, 2005, at 1:51 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:

>
> 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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