DB2® Spatial
Extender provides industry standard spatial data formats that you
can use.
The following four spatial data formats are described:
Well-known text (WKT) representation
Well-known binary (WKB) representation
Shape representation
Geography Markup Language (GML) representation
Well-known text (WKT) representation
The OpenGIS Consortium "Simple Features
for SQL" specification defines the well-known text representation
to exchange geometry data in ASCII format. This representation is
also referenced by the ISO "SQL/MM Part: 3 Spatial" standard.
Shape representation
Shape representation is a widely used industry standard
defined by ESRI.
Geography Markup Language (GML) representation
The Geography Markup Language (GML) is
an XML encoding for geographic information defined by the OpenGIS
Consortium "Geography Markup Language V2" specification.
DB2 Version 10.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows