On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 06:18:22PM +0200, Christophe Leske scratched on the 
wall:
> 
> >  The "R" in "R-Tree" is for rectangle.  The structure is designed to
> >  hold spaces, not points.  You want to do something like:
> >
> >  ... rtree(id, long-min, long-max, lat-min, lat-max)
> >
> >  For cities where you only have point locations, enter each lat and
> >  long twice.
> 
> Well, my database holds only cities for the time being! Does it make 
> sense to use rtree then?

  Sure.  Points should be no problem, you just need to express them as
  zero-width rectangles.

   -j

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