[postgis-users] why specify spheroid?

[Paul Ramsey]

They pre-date the transformation functionality, and were never
upgraded when it was added. Realistically, they could/should look at
the SRID.  Or, they could just have hardcoded sphere/spheroids, since
everyone uses WGS84 anyways.

P.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Willy-Bas Loos <willybas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
> distance_sphere and distance_spheroid don't even look at the srid of the
> geometry fed to them
> Why is that?
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