[postgis-users] FOSS4G 2009 Videos

[Paul Ramsey]

Well, if they're fictive, then there's no reason you can't use WGS84.
Fun, who gets to be Slartibartfast and design your world :)

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On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Maxime van Noppen <maxime at altribe.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> Maxime
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