[postgis-users] ST_Contains - WGS84

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> Markus Schaber - schabi at logix-tt.com a écrit :
>> I'm not really sure about that, it may be that the rubberbands get
>> mangled into curves in certain projections. And so vertexes from other
>> polygons might "jump" on the other side of the rubberband.
> 
> Indeed, I would assume that too.
> Projections do not preserve parallelism, so I guess that the same 
> geometries projected in two different srids could have different 
> ST_Relate results.
> If you want "true results", I think you have to go for a real coordinate 
> space like 4326.


Thinking a bit more about it, maybe those spatial relation checks are 
always internally performed in unprojected coordinates.
That would be logical, since projections are just a representation of 
real things, relations should be checked on the real things rather than 
on their representations.