Gregory's ServerIt has been ages since the last time I blogged. Here it is "Those concepts in the geospatial field that have cost us millions of $$$":
https://erouault.blogspot.com/2024/09/those-concepts-in-geospatial-field-that.html
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@EvenRouault you're burning out recently. Please dont 😅 take some time for yourself @EvenRouault "the only solution I see to solve the issue it is to ask all population to relocate on the line of longitude=latitude, and exclude any mapping outside of it." 🤣🤣🤣  @nyalld @EvenRouault And *typed* empties are doubly insane. It's like distinguishing between 32 bit and 64 bit NaN. @sgillies @nyalld I've always dreamt about being able to use the degrees of freedom left by all those possible bits in a NaN representation to actually store useful information in them. That's a bit like quantum physics with Vacuum energy or this old saying "[Redacted entity] created not-a-number, saw this was (not) good, and from it/them created numbers"  @EvenRouault i wonder how much fossil fuel is burned to store all those 15 decimal precision geojsons and other file formats that come like that as default... @hareldan There's actually a GDAL RFC for that (https://gdal.org/en/latest/development/rfc/rfc99_geometry_coordinate_precision.html). It just needs to be used... @EvenRouault There's also R sf dataframes that allow geometries with different CRS yay! We really need geometry collections with multiple CRS, because that's what we usually use /s @EvenRouault Can we add GPKG's coordinate precision which allows to map the position of an atom to the rant list? https://github.com/opengeospatial/geopackage/issues/365 @andrestumpf There are people actually requiring that level of precision, so we shouldn't exclude them. Well, maybe not at the angstrom level, but tens of millimeters is something geodesists routinely want to achieve. At least some I've interacted with... That said the main issue of TWKB or friends in GeoPackage is that would make it a non-interoperable extension... |
@EvenRouault I'm just here for the rant-mode Even...