Extended Methods on Geography Instances

SQL Server 2008 supports a number of extended methods on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) geography instances.

For more information on OGC specifications, see the following resources:

• OGC Specifications, Simple Feature Access Part 1 - Common Architecture

• OGC Specifications, Simple Feature Access Part 2 – SQL Options

• OGC Specifications, Geography Markup Language

In This Section

• AsGml

• AsTextZM

• BufferWithTolerance

• InstanceOf

• IsNull

• Lat

• Long

• M

• NumRing

• RingN

• ToString

• Z

See Also

Other Resources

OGC Methods on Geography Instances

OGC Static Geography Methods

Extended Static Geography Methods