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Indicates questions asking about the use and meaning of specific technical words in GIS.

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What does the ST prefix stand for, e.g. in ST_Polygonize?

I did find it - it stands for Spatial Type - PostGIS has begun a transition from the existing naming convention to an SQL-MM-centric convention. As a result, most of the functions that you know a …
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