
When to use Geography Data type over Geometry data type 4.2.3. This is a collection of surfaces, which can be (linear)Ĥ.2.1. Linear strings, circular strings or compound strings.

The MULTICURVE is a collection of curves, which can include Take the form of a circular string, linear string or compoundĪs of PostGIS 1.4 PostGIS supports compound curves in a curve polygon. In addition to having well-formed components, the end point ofĮvery component (except the last) must be coincident with theĬURVEPOLYGON(CIRCULARSTRING(0 0, 4 0, 4 4, 0 4, 0 0),(1 1, 3Įxample compound curve in a curve polygon:ĬURVEPOLYGON(COMPOUNDCURVE(CIRCULARSTRING(0 0,2 0, 2 1, 2 3, 4 3),(4 3, 4 5, 1 4, 0 0)),ĬIRCULARSTRING(1.7 1, 1.4 0.4, 1.6 0.4, 1.6 0.5, 1.7 1) )Ī CURVEPOLYGON is just like a polygon, with an outer ringĪnd zero or more inner rings. This means that a valid circular string must have anĬOMPOUNDCURVE(CIRCULARSTRING(0 0, 1 1, 1 0),(1 0, 0 1))Ī compound curve is a single, continuous curve that has bothĬurved (circular) segments and linear segments. To chain arcs together, the last point of the previousĪrc becomes the first point of the next arc, just like in Second point MUST be the center of the arc, ie the opposite side of Where the start and end points are the same. The exception to this is for a closed circle, Points, the start and end points (first and third) and any other The CIRCULARSTRING is the basic curve type, similar to a

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Which is guaranteed to be accepted with a simple insert, update or copy.įor the PostGIS 'geometry' type these are:įor example this statement reads EWKT and returns HEXEWKB in the You get with a simple query (without any function call) and the one The "canonical forms" of a PostgreSQL type are the representations PostGIS spatial object would be: INSERT INTO geotable ( the_geom, the_name ) ((0 1 0, 0 1 1, 1 1 1, 1 1 0, 0 1 0)), ((0 0 1, 1 0 1, 1 1 1, 0 1 1, 0 0 1)) )Ĭonversion between these formats is available using the following interfaces: bytea EWKB = ST_AsEWKB(geometry) įor example, a valid insert statement to create and insert a GEOMETRYCOLLECTIONM( POINTM(2 3 9), LINESTRINGM(2 3 4, 3 4 5) ) SRID=4326 MULTIPOINTM(0 0 0,1 2 1) - XYM with SRID
