[postgis-users] PostGIS 2.0 Wishlist

[Nicolas Ribot]

> Likewise here -- we have some work-arounds, but that's exactly what they
> are. Dateline issues mainly -- but I know I've seen issues with polar
> regions as well. OTH our engineers haven't conjured up suggestions for
> functions that haven't already been made, and none of those seem to be a
> high priority. (Is there geld for this work is another question ... our
> new corporate owners have more need for dateline / polar areas than did
> our core business at GlobeXplorer, which was more US/Euro-centric (but
> there are US possessions and parts of Alaska that do cross the dateline)
> but I also have no idea if they are open to funding OS. I can always ask
> I guess, if there's enough other interest.
>

French Space Agency (CNES) is also very interested by adding
geocentric support into PostGIS.
We (camptocamp) are in touch with them to fund a survey to estimate
the amount of work needed to do so.

We will keep the list posted about this project.

Nicolas Ribot - CampToCamp.