</informalfigure></para><para>For example, consider a linear
dataset representing a road network. It may be the task of a
GIS analyst to identify all road segments that cross
- eachother, not at a point, but on a line, perhaps invalidating
+ each other, not at a point, but on a line, perhaps invalidating
some business rule. In this case, <xref linkend="ST_Crosses" /> does not
adequately provide the necessary spatial filter since, for
linear features, it returns <varname>true</varname> only where
<varname>[MULTI]POINT</varname>s,
<varname>[MULTI]LINESTRING</varname>s, etc.).</para> <para>A
more elegant / faster solution may indeed be
- desireable.</para></entry>
+ desirable.</para></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
- <para>Read from left to right, the dimensional matrix is
+ <para>Read from left to right and from top to bottom, the dimensional matrix is
represented, '<emphasis role="bold">212101212</emphasis>'.</para>
<para>A relate matrix that would therefore represent our first
FROM lakes a, wharfs b
WHERE a.geom && b.geom
AND ST_Relate(a.geom, b.geom, '102101FF2');</programlisting>
+
+ <para>For more information or reading, see:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sfs">OpenGIS Simple
+ Features Implementation Specification for SQL</ulink> (version 1.1, section 2.1.13.2)</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://gis.hsr.ch/wiki/images/3/3d/9dem_springer.pdf">Dimensionally
+ Extended Nine-Intersection Model (DE-9IM) by Christian Strobl</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para><ulink url="http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAkQFDAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.ca%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D6q2lOfLnwkAC%26dq%3D%2522Encyclopedia%2Bof%2BGIS%2522%2BBy%2BHui%2BXiong%26printsec%3Dfrontcover%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3D-0Xeu8l91l%26sig%3DEc5hKl01KkrfG8YkQbyWo9FC-8s%26hl%3Den%26ei%3DhwUYS_3qOJDWtQPSreyzBA%26sa%3DX%26oi%3Dbook_result%26ct%3Dresult%26resnum%3D1%26ved%3D0CAoQ6AEwAA&ei=hwUYS_3qOJDWtQPSreyzBA&usg=AFQjCNELBiBb7h4nr40k9UW7nxLiMWYmkQ&sig2=zTQ37S--6l61-wnYJwfpQw"><emphasis>Encyclopedia of GIS</emphasis> By Hui Xiong</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
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