Extended Methods on Geometry Instances

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

For more information on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications, see the following Open Geospatial Consortium Specifications:

• 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 (geometry Data Type)

• AsTextZM (geometry Data Type)

• BufferWithTolerance (geometry Data Type)

• InstanceOf (geometry Data Type)

• Filter (geometry Data Type)

• IsNull (geometry Data Type)

• M (geometry Data Type)

• MakeValid (geometry Data Type)

• Reduce (geometry Data Type)

• ToString (geometry Data Type)

• Z (geometry Data Type)

See Also

Other Resources

OGC Methods on Geometry Instances

OGC Static Geometry Methods

Extended Static Geometry Methods