Thanks to Paul Ramsey, Bill Dollins, Morten Nielsen and others, Microsoft has said that they plan to implement longitude-latitude ordering in WKB and WKT for both the geography and geometry types. Bill put it best IMO as to why this change needed to happen with SQL Server 2008.
For me, the issue is consistency. Regardless [...]
Microsoft Turns the World Right Side Up Again
December 27th, 2007 · 12 Comments · Microsoft, SQL Server
Tags:Microsoft·spatial·SQL Server
ESRI to Support SQL Server 2008 Spatial
December 6th, 2007 · 58 Comments · ArcGIS Desktop, ESRI, Microsoft, SQL Server
Good news for those who want to take advantage of SQL Server 2008 Spatial and ArcGIS.
ESRI’s ArcGIS 9.3 software, the next scheduled release of ESRI’s ArcGIS suite, will take full advantage of the new spatial technology in the upcoming release of SQL Server 2008. With the November SQL Server 2008 community technology preview (CTP), Microsoft [...]
Tags:arccatalog·arcgis·arcgis desketop·ArcGIS Server·arcmap·ArcSDE·Microsoft·spatial·SQL Server
MapDotNet Support for SQL Server 2008 Spatial
November 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Manifold, MapDotNet Server, Microsoft, SQL Server
I’m sure many of us on the MapDotNet email list got the news that full support for SQL Server 2008 Spatial is right around the corner.
MapDotNet Server 6.5 is currently undergoing beta testing and will be released in November 2007. In addition to support for SQL Server 2008, it will provide support for the new [...]
Tags:FME·Manifold·mapdotnet·Safe Software·spatial·SQL Server·sql server 2008
