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Till Westmann commented on ASTERIXDB-1371:
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I believe that no geo-library supports circle (probably as there are not many
circles in real-life geography). So I think that we should remove that from our
data model.
Wrt. the distinctions between GeoJSON and WKT: somebody who has been working in
this area has claimed that they are 2 different serializations for the same
data model. I think that the goal should be to support a data model that covers
both formats (in case that they are not the same) and support serialization
from/to both formats. We can certainly start with one but think that we should
keep in mind, that the other one should be supported as well.
> Support the standard GIS objects
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> Key: ASTERIXDB-1371
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ASTERIXDB-1371
> Project: Apache AsterixDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Data Formats, Data Model
> Reporter: Jianfeng Jia
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: gsoc2016
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> We current support point, polygon, circle, and rectangle. The GIS world has
> more data shapes as described in [Well-know
> text|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_text].
> [PostGIS|http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.2/using_postgis_dbmanagement.html#RefObject]
> is also a good referecne. It will be very nice we can support all standard
> spatial object internally and can parse/format the spatial object in a
> "well-known" way. e.g. well-know format or [geojson|http://geojson.org/]
> format
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