[postgis-users] Support for LINESTRING and CIRCULARSTRING in the same polygon.

James David Smith james.david.smith at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 11:53:59 PDT 2011


Hey Mats,

I'm just a newbie, so don't really have an answer for you I'm afraid,
but if a Polygon has a curved line, then it isn't a Polygon I don't
think. Polygons have only straight lines.

Am quite curious what the answer is to your query though... ! Good luck.

James

On 20 July 2011 19:48, Mats Taraldsvik <mats.taraldsvik at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to deal with Polygons which have curves as well as straight lines.
> How should I store them in postgis? (If I understand the documentation
> correctly, Polygon is for linestrings, CurvePolygon is for circularstrings,
> but none of them handles a mix of both..?)
>
> Regards,
> Mats Taraldsvik
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