Jim Starkey wrote:

> Another part of the problem is support for spatial types usually engenders
> taking on a gigantic GIS standard and associated library. So while spatial
> types and indexes are nice and good, without full support for the standard,
> probably not all that useful.

It is somewhat irritating having to run Postgres for all of the mapping data via
PostGIS. It does then seem somewhat pointless running Firebird as well. So
creating a port of OpenGIS to Firebird does have an attraction where mapping
data is also involved on a site.

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