> Well, it would be good to know in which direction you are moving... :) > Spatial databases have spatial columns and spatial functions. So, how > would we go about making the following postgis examples into a DAL- > able form without slipping to _execute ? How do we insert a geometry ? > How do we use validators with geometry columns ? The basic selects > themselves should not be that problematic (a few of the simplest > postgresql examples from > http://www.spatial.cs.umn.edu/Book/labs/vania/spatialQueries.html > ): I also believe that this is where to go. Instead of creating your own spatial stuff, create plugins that extend the DAL for spatial data bases: * postgis based on postgres * spatiallite based on sqlite * upcoming google api
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