Well, if they're fictive, then there's no reason you can't use WGS84. Fun, who gets to be Slartibartfast and design your world :)
P On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Maxime van Noppen <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Ramsey wrote: >> Other planets could be handled when arbitrary SRID values are allowed. >> So, it's an obvious extension, but one which someone is going to >> probably have to step up and fund. However, even with the current >> version, you could support Mars or Venus at compile time, easily >> enough, by altering the constants for major- and semi-major- axis >> before building PostGIS. > > I'm a game developer and my company works on world-wide strategy games. > But the planets where the action takes place are completely fictive and > we have a planet generator. So it would be interesting for us to be able > to teach PostGIS about our new planets at runtime. > > Currently we're working with a projected view of the world and we're > very happy with that. Though we expect the need for the generic > geography support to arise by 2011. > > -- > Maxime > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
