Re: [Virtuoso-users] Support for Lines and Polygons in Virtuoso's Geospatial Extensions

2010-12-04 Thread William Waites
* [2010-12-05 00:29:05 +0600] Ivan Mikhailov écrit: ] 1. What types of spatial things should be supported? ] ] 2. What operations should be supported? ] ] 3. What sorts of geometry should be supported? ] ] The problem is that costs of features are not additive, the total cost ] of the imple

Re: [Virtuoso-users] Support for Lines and Polygons in Virtuoso's Geospatial Extensions

2010-12-04 Thread Ivan Mikhailov
Hello William > One challenge is that we still have no consensus on how to express > this type of data and these operations in RDF, but that's a separate > issue from support in the database itself. IMHO, the lack of consensus of candidate users is a significant problem, and the problem is "three

Re: [Virtuoso-users] Support for Lines and Polygons in Virtuoso's Geospatial Extensions

2010-12-02 Thread William Waites
* [2010-12-02 13:23:30 -0700] Wood, Jamey écrit: ] Thanks for your response. I wonder if anyone could comment on how ] difficult the remaining work would be. Since the R-Tree indexing part has ] already been implemented, I wonder if the rest would largely just be a ] matter of integrating vario

Re: [Virtuoso-users] Support for Lines and Polygons in Virtuoso's Geospatial Extensions

2010-12-02 Thread Wood, Jamey
Hi Patrick, Thanks for your response. I wonder if anyone could comment on how difficult the remaining work would be. Since the R-Tree indexing part has already been implemented, I wonder if the rest would largely just be a matter of integrating various higher-level functionality from an existing

Re: [Virtuoso-users] Support for Lines and Polygons in Virtuoso's Geospatial Extensions

2010-12-02 Thread Patrick van Kleef
Hi Jamey, In playing with a trial copy of Virtuoso 6.2 (Commercial Edition), I've noticed that it appears that its geospatial capabilities only cover points. For example: SQL> select st_geomfromtext('LINESTRING(3 4,10 50,20 25)'); *** Error 37000: [Virtuoso Driver][Virtuoso Server]GEO..

[Virtuoso-users] Support for Lines and Polygons in Virtuoso's Geospatial Extensions

2010-12-02 Thread Wood, Jamey
In playing with a trial copy of Virtuoso 6.2 (Commercial Edition), I've noticed that it appears that its geospatial capabilities only cover points. For example: SQL> select st_geomfromtext('LINESTRING(3 4,10 50,20 25)'); *** Error 37000: [Virtuoso Driver][Virtuoso Server]GEO..: Bad geometry