[postgis-users] PostGIS 2.0 Wishlist

[Brent Wood]

--- Paul Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net> wrote:

> It's something we hope for funding for, but absent that will probably be 
> low down the priority list, since it is a relatively rare use case. 
> Adding more geodetic functions (area, buffer, distance) seems like a 
> higher priority than handing the geodetic singularity points.
> 
> P

Heavy sigh!!

It might be rare for some, but 2 out of three datasets I use are a problem due
to this issue.

Various lists seem to have this problem pop up regularly, noteably around
Alaska & New Zealand for some reason :-) 

At least PostGIS has better tools than most to work around it.

GMT seems to do it best, it may be worth looking at how they deal with this &
re-use their code/approach?


Cheers,

  Brent Wood






> 
> Yeroc wrote:
> > Paul,
> > 
> > Maybe this has been addressed already but is there any chance of having
> > PostGIS properly handle geometries that cross the antimeridian (+/-180
> > longitude) and the poles?  See this thread
> > (http://www.nabble.com/polygons-crossing-0-360-longitude-tf1820863.html)
> for
> > more details.  
> > 
> > Corey
> > 
> > 
> > Paul Ramsey wrote:
> >> FYI, I'm working on the overall wishlist document at this URL:
> >>
> >> http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg99qr76_2dgt26j
> >>
> > 
> 
> 
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