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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/contrib/gis/functions.txt | 25 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/functions.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/functions.txt index 2917a658af..1fbe1fa212 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/functions.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/functions.txt @@ -41,8 +41,12 @@ Measurement Relationships Operations Editors Accepts a single geographic field or expression and returns the area of the field as an :class:`~django.contrib.gis.measure.Area` measure. On MySQL, a raw -float value is returned, as it's not possible to automatically determine the -unit of the field. +float value is returned when the coordinates are geodetic. + +.. versionchanged:: 1.11 + + In older versions, a raw value was returned on MySQL when used on + projected SRS. ``AsGeoJSON`` ============= @@ -211,8 +215,7 @@ geometry B. Accepts two geographic fields or expressions and returns the distance between them, as a :class:`~django.contrib.gis.measure.Distance` object. On MySQL, a raw -float value is returned, as it's not possible to automatically determine the -unit of the field. +float value is returned when the coordinates are geodetic. On backends that support distance calculation on geodetic coordinates, the proper backend function is automatically chosen depending on the SRID value of @@ -246,6 +249,11 @@ queryset is calculated:: in kilometers. See :doc:`measure` for usage details and the list of :ref:`supported_units`. +.. versionchanged:: 1.11 + + In older versions, a raw value was returned on MySQL when used on + projected SRS. + ``Envelope`` ============ @@ -325,14 +333,19 @@ Returns ``True`` if its value is a valid geometry and ``False`` otherwise. Accepts a single geographic linestring or multilinestring field or expression and returns its length as an :class:`~django.contrib.gis.measure.Distance` -measure. On MySQL, a raw float value is returned, as it's not possible to -automatically determine the unit of the field. +measure. On MySQL, a raw float value is returned when the coordinates +are geodetic. On PostGIS and SpatiaLite, when the coordinates are geodetic (angular), you can specify if the calculation should be based on a simple sphere (less accurate, less resource-intensive) or on a spheroid (more accurate, more resource-intensive) with the ``spheroid`` keyword argument. +.. versionchanged:: 1.11 + + In older versions, a raw value was returned on MySQL when used on + projected SRS. + ``MakeValid`` ============= |