I am using POSTGIS, what can I do with that?
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Phil Scadden <[email protected]> wrote: > "It's better to have a general solution." > > Backend databases that maintain geometry POSTGis, Oracle SDO, and ArcGIS > SDE all have their own market interests and drivers. With that go their own > peculiarities. You cannot at either geoserver or openlayers side, do > anything about topology management at the database end of it. You have to > live and work around what is provided. A general solution would only be > possible if all the database vendors did it. The sad truth is that very few > people need to maintain topologies across the 180 line so its bottom of the > list for these vendors. If my memory serves me right, the first time ESRI > promised us a fix for the 180 issues was in 1988. "Next version" said our > rep. We finally got something that worked for "many" cases in around 2002. > A general solution for all projections? Still waiting - and that is just > one vendor. When you save a geometry to geoserver, it ultimately has to > write that into whatever your backend database is. > > > Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. > If received in error please destroy and immediately notify us. > Do not copy or disclose the contents. > >
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