/2009/11/05/intro-to-postgis?format=rss en-us 40 <h3>If you like Ruby on Rails, you'll love Rails on PostgreSQL!</h3> <p>I think that you should rather use WGS84 (SRID = 4326) as it is widely used by the GPS system. And better: just check what WGS type you have in the incoming data.</p> <p>Differences between those two you can find here: <a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/4269/" rel="nofollow">http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/4269/</a> <a href="http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/4326/" rel="nofollow">http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/4326/</a></p> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:21:42 -0600 urn:uuid:d2a8ef70-e0fc-426b-9296-6c5e0c778eb2 http://railsonpostgresql.com/2009/11/05/intro-to-postgis#comment-16 <p>Thanks for the pointer Simon, I&#8217;ve updated the post. We standardized on NAD83 as that was what most of the datasets we were using came in, but WGS84 looks like a slightly better option.</p> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:28:46 -0600 urn:uuid:30423f39-7e1f-450e-abf5-144c731c92c5 http://railsonpostgresql.com/2009/11/05/intro-to-postgis#comment-17