From: Regina Obe Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 01:19:11 +0000 (+0000) Subject: #2018: highlight that curves are now supported - examples forthcoming. Also broke... X-Git-Tag: 2.1.0beta2~128 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bb64ac39ca2f282597aeef23625e2fdc0f1b5e2f;p=postgis #2018: highlight that curves are now supported - examples forthcoming. Also broke geography into separate example section git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@11228 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee --- diff --git a/doc/reference_measure.xml b/doc/reference_measure.xml index eccaa914f..5eb4fcc62 100644 --- a/doc/reference_measure.xml +++ b/doc/reference_measure.xml @@ -1970,13 +1970,15 @@ SELECT ST_Disjoint('POINT(0 0)'::geometry, 'LINESTRING ( 0 0, 0 2 )'::geometry); &sfs_compliant; &sqlmm_compliant; SQL-MM 3: 5.1.23 + &curve_support; Availability: 1.5.0 geography support was introduced in 1.5. Speed improvements for planar to better handle large or many vertex geometries Enhanced: 2.1.0 improved speed for geography. See Making Geography faster for details. + Enhanced: 2.1.0 - support for curved geometries was introduced. - Examples + Basic Geometry Examples --Geometry example - units in planar degrees 4326 is WGS 84 long lat unit=degrees @@ -2006,8 +2008,11 @@ SELECT ST_Distance( st_distance ------------------ 126.664256056812 - --- Geography example -- same but note units in meters - use sphere for slightly faster less accurate + + + + Geography Examples +-- same as geometry example but note units in meters - use sphere for slightly faster less accurate SELECT ST_Distance(gg1, gg2) As spheroid_dist, ST_Distance(gg1, gg2, false) As sphere_dist FROM (SELECT ST_GeographyFromText('SRID=4326;POINT(-72.1235 42.3521)') As gg1, @@ -2017,9 +2022,10 @@ FROM (SELECT spheroid_dist | sphere_dist ------------------+------------------ 123.802076746848 | 123.475736916397 - - + + + See Also