Chapter 9. Geospatial Support
Location-aware applications are ubiquitous nowadays. You find them on phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. Enterprise users and consumers alike rely on Geographic Information System (GIS) applications (and GIS extensions to traditional applications) in the home, car, office, and everywhere in between. GIS applications—powered by Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) technology—enhance the user experience with sophisticated mapping intelligence. In short, GIS is all about storing and processing geospatial data (often simply called spatial data), and this chapter is all about the rich support for spatial data in Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
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