[postgis-users] countries with more than one srid ?

[Pavel Iacovlev]

You can do distance calculations on ellipsoids in meters too.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Smith Roman<autisi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My data is made up of many states. I intend putting them all in one table.
> But i discovered that the data I am working with (nigeria) has two srid's
> 26331 and 26332 which one should I use ? (I am not that skilled in map
> projections). I believe each srid corresponds to a particular region is it
> possible to insert data with different srid's together ? I intend leaving
> the data in UTM because i need to do distance calculations in meters and wgs
> 84 (lon, lat) will not meet my needs.
>
> Anybody with the same situation out there ? I know there are many countries
> in the world with more than one srid. How do they handle this situation in
> postgis ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Smith Roman.
>
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