I've no problem with such a new signature. Doesn't seem any worst than ST_PolyFromText and friends (required by the standards). File an enhancement ticket so any other comment can be gathered there. Target 2.1.0.
--strk; On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 04:59:41PM -0400, Javier de la Torre wrote: > Hi all, > > We are having lot of new web developers coming to use PostGIS and thats > great! One of the first barries I know some people have is how complicate is > to create a point on PostGIS. Basically you need to know: > > 1) In PostGIS first comes Longitude, then Latitude > 2) You have to specify an srid, which most people havent heard of > > So what I would consider a trivial query looks like this: > > SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE the_geom && > ST_SetSRID(ST_MakePoint(-123.0,34),4326) > > I propose to have a wrapper function called ST_GeogFromLatLon or something > similar so that we can do: > > SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE the_geom && ST_GeogFromLatLon(34,-123.0) > > The ST_GeogFromLatLon will imply 4326 SRID. And the return could be > geography, as it cast well to geometry, so it will work in most cases. > > I know is not such a big difference, but I think it will help a lot new > people and will also make our queries look much better in some scenarios. In > my experiences when teaching postgis this is kind of annoying having to go > through it. > > Does this break the entire GIS world? :D > Just kidding. > > Javier de la Torre > @jatorre > > Vizzuality > 148 Lafayette St. PH, New York, 10013,USA > +1 347 320 7715 > www.vizzuality.com > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
