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• Ensuring Valid SqlGeography Objects

  Yesterday I wrote a post about the release of a project that can convert shapefiles and KML files to SqlGeography objects for use in a SQL Server 2008 spatial database. This post shows how you can validate SqlGeography objects in code. The SqlSpatial project has been updated with the validation code, as recommended by k.van.daalen. Read More... Posted 10. februar 2009 22:33 by jjrdk | 2 Comments Filed under: Database, SQL Server 2008, Shapefiles, KML, SqlGeometry, SqlGeography

• SQL Server 2008, KML and Shapefiles

  This weekend I had a look at SQL Server 2008 to find out about the new spatial functions and types that it includes. It has taken some time for Microsoft to include spatial capabilities, but it is here now, and it looks great. However there is no way to work with KML files. So I uploaded the source code to let developers read KML files and Shapefiles into a SQL Server 2008 as SqlGeography objects. Read More... Posted 9. februar 2009 21:47 by jjrdk | 2 Comments Filed under: SQL Server 2008, Shapefiles, KML, Spatial Functions