Re: Build in spatial support vs. PostGIS - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Johan Nel
Subject Re: Build in spatial support vs. PostGIS
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In response to Build in spatial support vs. PostGIS  (Assaf Lavie <assaflavie@gmail.com>)
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Hi Assaf
Assaf Lavie wrote:
> Can anyone please shed light on the difference between the two:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1023229/spatial-data-in-postgresql
> (login _not_ required)
>

In general, if you store spatial data typically found in a CAD
environment, the build in spatial features are more than enough.
However the moment you start having to reference the spatial data to a
position on earth, you really cannot use anything else than PostGIS.

So in general, of you have spatial features all starting with a
reference point of (0,0) use the build-in support.

HTH,

Johan Nel
Pretoria, South Africa.

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