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. >> _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
