BG <mrharmo...@gmx.de> wrote: > But the geometry column (which comes with postgis) confuses me, this is > a bunch of numbers.
It's a OGC standard Format called Well Known Binary (WKB) Postgis provides a funktion (astext) which will transform it to WKT (Well known text). http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards Regards Sven -- "Ich fürchte mich nicht vor der Rückkehr der Faschisten in der Maske der Faschisten, sondern vor der Rückkehr der Faschisten in der Maske der Demokraten" (Theodor W. Adorno) /me is giggls@ircnet, http://sven.gegg.us/ on the Web _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev