[postgis-users] Geography and CIRCULARSTRING / CURVEPOLYGON

[Paul Ramsey]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Evan Martin
<postgresql at realityexists.net> wrote:
> CIRCULARSTRING and CURVEPOLYGON would seem like a good way of storing an
> Arc, except that they're not supported by the geography type, only geometry.
> Are there any plans to add support for them any time soon? What would be the
> best approach to this in the meanwhile?

No plans anytime soon. I find it hard to conceptualize what an Arc is
in spherical space, except with reference to some projected plane or
other, which feels backwards.

p.


>
> Regards,
>
> Evan Martin
>
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