From: | vandewal(at)dhc(dot)net |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | does GIS DMS data type already exist? |
Date: | 1999-11-13 17:56:10 |
Message-ID: | XFMail.991113115610.vandewal@dhc.net |
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Hey,
I am builing a system that is going to be dealing with a large
amount of GIS (geographic) data from USGS. Some of their data
provides lattitude and longitude in the DMS (degrees minnutes seconds)
format, other provides lat/lon in decimal format. The decimal is
obviously not a problem for postgres, but the DMS is. I am going to
need to be doing queries based on the DMS data, and will need it
treated as numeric instead of just a text string.
Soooo (to get to my question already!) what I want to know is
whether anyone else has already coded up a data type to do this
kind of thing or whether I just have to do it myself.
I search around but didn't find one.
Thanks for you time.
dv
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