[postgis-users] Converting WKT or WKB

Abe Gillespie agillesp at vt.edu
Sun Feb 6 11:25:33 PST 2005


Oh, wow, ArcObjects does have some WKB support.  I'll look into it and 
see what I can dig up.  Thanks again for the help!

-Abe

On Feb 6, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Abe Gillespie wrote:

> 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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>>      Refractions Research
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