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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Alan Boudreault
  • Date: 2010-09-29 09:16:10 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.12 upstream)
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20100929091610-vj4efw8woq34hdn7
Tags: 1.5.2-1
* New upstream release, with a few bug fixes.
* Added shp2pgsql-gui binary.
* Removed patches, applied upstream: getopt.    

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                        <title>Description</title>
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                        <para>Returns a geography object from the  well-known text or extended well-known representation.  SRID 4326 is assumed. This
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                                is an alias for ST_GeographyFromText</para>
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                        <!-- TODO: put in example -->
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                  </refsection>
 
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                  <refsection>
 
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                        <title>Examples</title>
 
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                        <programlisting>
 
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--- converting lon lat coords to geography
 
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ALTER TABLE sometable ADD COLUMN geog geography(POINT,4326);
 
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UPDATE sometable SET geog = ST_GeogFromText('SRID=4326;POINT(' || lon || ' ' || lat || ')');            
 
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                        </programlisting>
 
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                 </refsection>
 
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                  <refsection>
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                        <title>See Also</title>
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                        <para><xref linkend="ST_AsText" />,<xref linkend="ST_GeographyFromText" /></para>
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                        you have raw coordinates rather than WKT.</para>
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                        <note><para>Note x is longitude and y is latitude</para></note>
 
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                        <note><para>Use <xref linkend="ST_MakePointM" /> if you need to make a point with x,y,m.</para></note>
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                        <para>&Z_support;</para>
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                </refsection>
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                </refsection>
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                <refsection>
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                        <title>See Also</title>
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                        <para><xref linkend="ST_GeomFromText" />, <xref linkend="ST_PointFromText" />, <xref linkend="ST_SetSRID" /></para>
 
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                        <para><xref linkend="ST_GeomFromText" />, <xref linkend="ST_PointFromText" />, <xref linkend="ST_SetSRID" />, <xref linkend="ST_MakePointM" /></para>
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                </refsection>
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        </refentry>
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