[postgis-users] Geography/geometry

[Paul Ramsey]

Not really sure that’s the answer… I’d much rather see work on geodetic edges in GEOS

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> On Jan 21, 2019, at 1:20 PM, Darafei Komяpa Praliaskouski <me at komzpa.net> wrote:
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> If someone is willing, there is an old Geography Overlays patch that needs lots of love: https://github.com/postgis/postgis/pull/191 <https://github.com/postgis/postgis/pull/191>
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> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 12:13 AM Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca <mailto:pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>> wrote:
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> > On Jan 21, 2019, at 1:00 PM, Simon Greener <simon at spatialdbadvisor.com <mailto:simon at spatialdbadvisor.com>> wrote:
> > 
> > When a geography is casted to geometry for use in the aggregate form of ST_Union (or other commands such as ST_Within) is the processing done assuming the data is projected even when geodetic?
> 
> All processing of geometry make cartesian assumptions. Processing of geography using geography native functions (no casting required) makes spherical assumptions. When you case from geography::geometry you are telling the database “please process this data using cartesian assumptions”. Do we support spherical processing for all (or even many) kinds of operations? No we do not. That’s hard. Could we in the future? Sure, it might happen.
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> ATB,
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