Yes, the first case. The ability to store OpenGIS format data such
as Point Lines Polygons etc. Index with, for example, a quad tree;
then execute query that are optimized to fecth results only in a
specified geographic are such as Select PoleLocation, PoleID from
PowerPoles where Location is within 100M of select HydrantLocation
from Hydrants.

To show me all power poles within 100m of a fire hydrant.

Some examples of existing tools are Oracle Spatial and Postgress
PostGIS

Is anyone doing any work on tools like this for FireBird?

Garth



--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "unordained"
<unordained_00@c...> wrote:

> To clarify: do you mean the ability to make efficient queries on

positional data, such as finding

> items within a certain distance of a point (N dimensions), or a

built-in algorithm for path-finding

> along a graph, or something else entirely?
>
> I'm assuming you currently believe firebird not to have these

capabilities; could you describe a

> few cases in which it performs poorly or not at all for your needs?
>
> -Philip
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: "garthtissington" <GarthTissington@h...>
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:06:15 -0000
> Subject: [firebird-support] Spatial tools for FireBird/IB
>
> > Has anyone heard of any work being done to add spatial storage

and

> > spatial query capabilities to Firebird or Interbase?
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