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.. note::
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- Geography support is limited only to PostGIS 1.5+, and will
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- force the SRID to be 4326.
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+ Geography support is limited to PostGIS and will force the SRID to be 4326.
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.. _geography-type:
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Geography Type
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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-In PostGIS 1.5, the geography type was introduced -- it provides
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-native support for spatial features represented with geographic
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-coordinates (e.g., WGS84 longitude/latitude). [#fngeography]_
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+The geography type provides native support for spatial features represented
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+with geographic coordinates (e.g., WGS84 longitude/latitude). [#fngeography]_
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Unlike the plane used by a geometry type, the geography type uses a spherical
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representation of its data. Distance and measurement operations
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performed on a geography column automatically employ great circle arc
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@@ -214,7 +212,7 @@ available for geography columns:
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For more information, the PostGIS documentation contains a helpful section on
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determining `when to use geography data type over geometry data type
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-<http://postgis.net/docs/manual-1.5/ch04.html#PostGIS_GeographyVSGeometry>`_.
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+<http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.1/using_postgis_dbmanagement.html#PostGIS_GeographyVSGeometry>`_.
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``GeoManager``
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==============
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@@ -252,5 +250,5 @@ for example::
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.. [#fnsrid] Typically, SRID integer corresponds to an EPSG (`European Petroleum Survey Group <http://www.epsg.org>`_) identifier. However, it may also be associated with custom projections defined in spatial database's spatial reference systems table.
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.. [#fnharvard] Harvard Graduate School of Design, `An Overview of Geodesy and Geographic Referencing Systems <http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/gis/manual/projections/fundamentals/>`_. This is an excellent resource for an overview of principles relating to geographic and Cartesian coordinate systems.
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.. [#fnthematic] Terry A. Slocum, Robert B. McMaster, Fritz C. Kessler, & Hugh H. Howard, *Thematic Cartography and Geographic Visualization* (Prentice Hall, 2nd edition), at Ch. 7.1.3.
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-.. [#fndist] This limitation does not apply to PostGIS 1.5. It should be noted that even in previous versions of PostGIS, this isn't impossible using GeoDjango; you could for example, take a known point in a projected coordinate system, buffer it to the appropriate radius, and then perform an intersection operation with the buffer transformed to the geographic coordinate system.
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-.. [#fngeography] Please refer to the `PostGIS Geography Type <http://postgis.net/docs/manual-1.5/ch04.html#PostGIS_Geography>`_ documentation for more details.
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+.. [#fndist] This limitation does not apply to PostGIS.
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+.. [#fngeography] Please refer to the `PostGIS Geography Type <http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.1/using_postgis_dbmanagement.html#PostGIS_Geography>`_ documentation for more details.
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