Hi, yet I'm quite new to the list, I'm using postigis for some time. For now I discovered the following behaviour for this query:
select st_within(st_geomfromtext('POINT (-40 44.1)',4326),st_geomfromtext('POLYGON((0 44, -90 44, -90 46, 0 46, 0 44))',4326))
Stating that the point (-40,44.1) is within the given polygon. But when considering the spherical "distortion" (the connect between the points are arcs not straight lines) on the described polygon this point cannot be within. I've seen that there are some functions for calculating spherical distances but, nothing similar for the st_within function.
Can anybody help me whats wrong with that. Maybe its my thinking ;-) Best regards Georg Herdt _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
