2015-01-28 16:18 GMT-03:00 Esteban A. Maringolo <[email protected]>:

> Sure,
>
> I'll collect georeferenced data in a mobile app, which I'll later have to
> group each one according to whether they fall inside a certain polygon
> (geopolitcal boundaries, like city, district, province, etc.).
> I could also geocode the coordinate and store all that data (city,
> district, province, etc.), and then just group by each of these. And then
> I'll have to plot that data on a choropleth map.
>
> But I'm asking to know if somebody has somehow mapped smalltalk geometry
> objects to the typical geometry object of PostGIS. Something like PGPoint,
> PGPolygon, that can "translate" themselves from/to string literals.
>
>
I don't know about PostGIS, but if you need boundary datasets there is GADM
or GeoNames which may cover your needs.
Recently I did a ST script to read from GADM using a dBase package. And you
could query throug SPARQL too.

Hernán

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