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

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What does LW stand for in liblwgeom of PostGIS?

What does LW stand for in liblwgeom of PostGIS? I could not find any explanation anywhere, or in the source code (mirrored) at https://github.com/postgis/postgis/tree/svn-trunk/liblwgeom
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What does the ST prefix stand for, e.g. in ST_Polygonize?

I was just curious, and couldn't find any reference to this anywhere - is it Spatial Types? Spatial Topography? Something else?
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