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by dr-jia-yu 485 days ago
Wherobots wrote a detailed tech review of the new types. You can find the definition and reasoning there: https://wherobots.com/iceberg-geo-technical-insights-and-imp...
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Better. I still feel like there's an element of explanations there nearly as opaque as "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors", but I can mostly forgive it. Clearly the review is written for someone already familiar with GIS terms. For example, "The geometry type represents spatial objects in a planar space using Cartesian geometry, assuming all calculations, including distance and area measurements, are performed on a flat surface." says nothing that couldn't be better stated as "this is for flat-projection maps, like the Mercator".