Mastodawn

Today is one of those days where I wonder what has become of my life #gischat

@paleolimbot ah ah that "multi-million dollar mistake" (https://erouault.blogspot.com/2024/09/those-concepts-in-geospatial-field-that.html)

Those concepts in the geospatial field that have cost us millions of $$$

Every domain has its baggage of concepts, which at first sight don't appear to be that terrible, but which are in practice. Let's start with...

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Dewey Dunnington 1d ago

@EvenRouault I'm clearly not charging somebody enough to pick the appropriate return type here 🙂

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Peter Rushforth 🇨🇦🇺🇦1d ago

@EvenRouault

"I didn't ask them (GEOS developers), so they may actually be thrilled by them (lack of a defined standard for empty geometry values). You never know..." lol

@paleolimbot

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Paul Ramsey 🗳️1d ago

@prushforth @EvenRouault @paleolimbot Someday I will learn what the union of POINT EMPTY and POINT Z EMPTY is and will die happy.

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Even Rouault 1d ago

@pwramsey @prushforth @paleolimbot This apparently puts our AI overlords in much trouble figuring the answer. There's still some hope humans are needed to solve such critical issues (hard to tell if funding will follow). Or maybe @samaltman / @larryellison / @JensenHuang: quick question for you guys: do you have some venture capital money for us (not asking for much 10 to 20 million USD will do) to build a AI-powered start-up to solve DE-9IM computation on empty sets?