[postgis-users] FOSS4G 2009 Videos

[Maxime van Noppen]

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Other planets could be handled when arbitrary SRID values are allowed.
> So, it's an obvious extension, but one which someone is going to
> probably have to step up and fund. However, even with the current
> version, you could support Mars or Venus at compile time, easily
> enough, by altering the constants for major- and semi-major- axis
> before building PostGIS.

I'm a game developer and my company works on world-wide strategy games.
But the planets where the action takes place are completely fictive and
we have a planet generator. So it would be interesting for us to be able
to teach PostGIS about our new planets at runtime.

Currently we're working with a projected view of the world and we're
very happy with that. Though we expect the need for the generic
geography support to arise by 2011.

-- 
Maxime