[postgis-users] curves geometries and topology

Eric Ladner eric.ladner at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 08:10:35 PDT 2014


As long as they are simple circles, you should be able to convert back and
forth between curves and lines.  Splines, beziers, et al, are probably not
going to work at all and would need to be approximated as lines.

http://boundlessgeo.com/2012/01/getting-curvey/


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Reijer Copier <Reijer.Copier at idgis.nl>wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> According to the documentation, PostGIS Topology only supports edges made
> out of linestrings. However, we are currently working on a dataset that
> contains lots of curved geometries. It would be great if we could build
> topology based on those curved geometries without having to convert them to
> linestrings first. Is this possible? If not, what is the best way to deal
> with this situation?
>
> --
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Reijer Copier
> IDgis bv
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