Blogs / Company blogs

BostonGIS

bostongis.com

Boston GIS a testbed for GIS mapping services focusing on Boston Massachusetts

Popular posts
1
Total points
154
HN comments
35
Rank
#7,410 company

Visit bostongis.com → RSS feedOn Hacker News Aug 2017 – Aug 2017

Software Engineering 1Databases & Data 1

1

Postgres geography type is not limited to Earth

It's a little known fact that the PostGIS geography type since PostGIS 2.2 (well was introduced in 2.1 I think but had a bug in it until 2.1.4 or so), supports any spheroidal spatial reference system that measures in degrees. When an srid is not specified, it defaults to using 4326, Earth WGS 84 long lat.