Re: Valentina 2.0. -- What is your 3 DREAM features?

Am 31.01.2004 5:17 Uhr schrieb "chuck hinkle" unter 
<chuckbo-LPlgopEk2FWcqzYg7KEe8g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>> 
>>> 2) a Point datatype (along with a geographic extension to SQL ... see
>>> Oracle Spatial);
>> 
>> Data type POINT ?
>> 
>> And this will make you happy?  :-)
>> Explain please why?
> 
> 
> This is probably the least useful to most people, but it's very fine if you
> need it. I don't have a project for it now, but I've needed it in the past
> for grpahing.
> A point refers to an X,Y coordinate, so you can store a Lat/Long there. I
> haven't played with Oracle Spatial, so I don't know the WHERE clause syntax,
> but let's say that you are storing landmarks with a point. You can then do a
> query where you pass a point to the database and have it return all items
> within a certain distance from that point. That's a tricky thing to program
> (and optimize) without point data because the distance calculation is based
> on a circle's radius.
> So don't take that dream very seriously, but I just wanted to provide some
> extremely high goals for you to aim at.  :)
> 
> 

I would very much like to see support for different spatial data types (like
postgis for postgresql, see: http://postgis.refractions.net/)

Cheers,

Jurriaan


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