On Sep 15, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:

> Might want to cross-post this to QGIS, it's more their problem than ours.

Righto. But, let me ask this... is inserting such data in Pg as 
`GEOGRAPHY(Polygon,4326)` the right thing to do? Doing it as GEOMETRY produces 
mostly nonsense.

Just want to cover all the bases.



> 
> P
> 
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Puneet Kishor <[email protected]> wrote:
>> well, I've reached that point where I have to deal with data crossing the 
>> date line. I have kept a file on my Dropbox/Public folder 
>> [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3526821/PA.gmt] which has a series of lat/lng 
>> pairs, one per line, making a single polygon. If I insert them into PostGIS 
>> as GEOMETRY, the resulting polygon is messed up. If I insert them as 
>> GEOGRAPHY, I can't view the polygon in Quantum GIS.
>> 
>> Any suggestion on the best way to handle this?
>> 
>> Puneet.
>> 

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