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Re:Postgres geography type is not limited to Earth by Someone on Sunday August 20, 2017 @11:30PM (#15061720)
And "geometry" means "measurement of earth" so maybe we should call it topometry? :-) (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/topometry)
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Re:Postgres geography type is not limited to Earth by Asooka on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:09AM (#15063053)
We also do geometry on space and on things that do not and cannot exist in reality. Maybe it should be unimetry :)
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