Geometry Boost List: [ggl] WKT empty

Subject: [ggl] WKT empty
From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz)
Date: 2009-10-06 16:34:15

Barend Gehrels wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> So I propose to handle a POINT EMPTY WKT by delivering a POINT(0
>>> 0)
>>> 
>> 
> 
> Having thought more about this, a few remarks.

Putting the new wine into old bottle and getting back to this subject
for a moment - new article dedicated to issues of EMPTY has been just
started on the PostGIS Wiki:

http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/DevWikiEmptyGeometry

> GGL is an underlying library which might, in the future, be used by a
>  spatial database.

What an 'evilish' idea would that be to try to replace GEOS in PostGIS
and compare :-)

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org