SQL Server 2008 introduced two new .NET common language runtime (CLR) data types for storing spatial data: GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY. These types support methods and properties that allow for the creation, comparison, analysis, and retrieval of spatial data. Spatial data types provide a comprehensive, high-performance, and extensible data storage solution for spatial data, enabling organizations of any scale to integrate geospatial features into their applications and services.
The GEOMETRY data type is a .NET CLR data type that supports the planar model/data, which assumes a flat projection and is therefore sometimes called flat Earth. Geometry data represents information in a uniform two-dimensional ...
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