[postgis-users] dynamic segmentation

P Kishor punkish at eidesis.org
Fri Nov 17 06:55:32 PST 2006


On 11/16/06, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net> wrote:
> As with many things, the terminological environment has been muddied by
> the conflation of specific ESRI terms for particular features with
> generic terms for the similar things.  Call it the "Chesterfield effect".
>
> ESRI "Dynamic segmentation" is really just "linear referencing of
> vectors and associated attributes".

So, between the above, and
http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ch06.html#id2529854, I can tell
this friend of mine that lrs of vectors and assoc. attributes aka
dynamic segmentation is possible using PostGIS.

And that is most excellent.

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