[postgis-users] How to design a database for continents, countries, regions, cities and POIs?

[Sandro Santilli]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 11:59:14PM +0200, Michal Kubenka wrote:
> Actually what we need is some hierarchical base for relationship between
> countries, cities, regions, etc.

PostGIS topology supports hirearchical modeling of layers, with each object
in upper layer defined by items of the lower layer, down to primitives.

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