From: | Neil Saunders <n(dot)j(dot)saunders(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | aarni(at)kymi(dot)com |
Cc: | pgsqlnovice <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Coordinates question |
Date: | 2005-12-07 10:48:47 |
Message-ID: | ddcd549e0512070248o3ad7bc74o5419ff550ef3c27e@mail.gmail.com |
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Depending on what you would like to do with the co-ordinates, you
should check out PostGIS in the contrib modules - You can store all
kinds of geographical data with indexes for efficient queries:
http://postgis.refractions.net
I'm planning on using it, but haven't started playing yet so can't
give you specific advice - Sorry!
On 12/7/05, Aarni Ruuhimäki <aarni(at)kymi(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> Anyone worked with coordinates ? What would be a good practise and format to
> store coordinates data ? Data type ? Degrees and minutes as integers and
> seconds as float ? Maybe a composite ?
>
> TIA,
>
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> Aarni Ruuhimäki
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