Thank you for your response. It seems there is no easy work around, and i need to store the data as multipolugons and a program is needed to tell whether a polygon intersects the dateline.
Sige Paul Ramsey-4 wrote: > > None of the systems mentioned understand geographic coordinates as > having a "wrap point" at 180. They are treated as planar, naturally > your polygons connect across the central meridian instead of the > dateline. > > The only "solution" is to force your data to respect the dateline by > cutting it in half at 180/-180 > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-polygons-spanning-across-180E-tp22528752p22551034.html Sent from the PostGIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
