[postgis-users] PostGIS functionality on non DB types

[P Kishor]

On 9/6/06, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] <Tom.Kralidis at ec.gc.ca> wrote:
..
> The main requirements we have would be:
>
> - point-in-polygon
> - distance
> - buffer
..
> We're in the perl world, so, at first guess, I would think that the geos
> python bindings would be the closest thing.

fwiw, I would be very interested in any work that helps Perl-ify GEOS
operations.

And, fwiw again, I have been working on a point-in-poly operation that
works on Shapefiles, and uses only DBD::SQLite, Geo::ShapeFile, and
XBase modules from CPAN (and some custom geometry code). I have gotten
very good performance benchmarks out of it, and will put it out for
public consumption once it is cleaned up.

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