I don't think the relation functions take into consideration projection at all. They just work against the raw coordinates you give them. This is why you can have SRID = -1 and things would be fine anyway.
As I understand it, they just perform operations on the coordinates given to them and verify that the two geometries are in the same coordinate system otherwise the analysis would be pointless since you would be comparing apples and oranges. Now I'm not quite sure what happens in the wrap around case - if you have a geometry that crosses around say between 0 and 360 degrees (with SRID 4326). In a spherical world you would see they are close but since PostGIS has no concept of geodetic space when looking at it in a pure cartesian system (where the sphere is rolled out as is the really the case in 4326) they would be on distant ends of the map. But I suppose you can then shift the degrees or something to compensate. Thanks, Regina -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 10:46 AM To: postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net Subject: Re: [postgis-users] ST_Contains - WGS84 [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Markus Schaber - [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : >> I'm not really sure about that, it may be that the rubberbands get >> mangled into curves in certain projections. And so vertexes from other >> polygons might "jump" on the other side of the rubberband. > > Indeed, I would assume that too. > Projections do not preserve parallelism, so I guess that the same > geometries projected in two different srids could have different > ST_Relate results. > If you want "true results", I think you have to go for a real coordinate > space like 4326. Thinking a bit more about it, maybe those spatial relation checks are always internally performed in unprojected coordinates. That would be logical, since projections are just a representation of real things, relations should be checked on the real things rather than on their representations. _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users ----------------------------------------- The substance of this message, including any attachments, may be confidential, legally privileged and/or exempt from disclosure pursuant to Massachusetts law. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
