[postgis-users] PostGIS functionality on non DB types

Paul Ramsey pramsey at refractions.net
Tue Sep 5 18:03:47 PDT 2006


Almost all the "important" functions in PostGIS are in facts  
delegates to GEOS. The exceptions are Area(), Distance(), and Length 
().  But I believe GEOS has its own implementations of these anyways.

P

On 5-Sep-06, at 2:09 PM, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:

>
>> I haven't looked close enough, but are those functions
>> imported by way of compilation against those libs, or is
>> there an actual code port in PostGIS?  I'm asking mainly for
>> JTS, as I have compiled PostGIS with the geos libs.
>>
>
> Ah, I see geos is a C++ port of JTS.  Sorry for the traffic :)
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