[postgis-users] Freely available WKB sdk?

[Barend Köbben]

I use JTS [1] in my Java environment to do this. GEOS [2] is a C++ port of
this, other libs like Geotools [3] can probably also do this...

[1]- http://sourceforge.net/projects/jts-topo-suite/
[2]- http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/
[3]- http://www.osgeo.org/geotools

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On 17-09-10 09:51, "Henri De Feraudy" <feraudyh at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>   I'm writing an application that reads GIS data from a POstGres+PostGis
> database.
>   I thought accessing Well Known Binary data mihgt be faster than converting
> to Well Known Text this with ST_AsText and  then parsing.
> Is the difference very significant?
> Is there a FOSS library that does this, or is building my own pretty easy?
> Thankyou
> Henri
> 

Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)
University of Twente

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