What SRIDs are currently supported with PostGIS Geography?

[just7460]

The most recent documentation states, "One restriction [of PostGIS geography] is that it only supports WGS 84 long lat (SRID:4326)":

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4.2. PostGIS Geography Type ​http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.4/using_postgis_dbmanagement.html#PostGIS_Geography

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However, I have tested creating data with a few other SRIDs, and it seems to function properly. In addition, other related OSGeo pages suggests that there have been other supported SRIDs since PostGIS 2.1.6:

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2.4.0RC1 News ​https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/postgis/postgis/raw/2.4.0rc1/NEWS *Search for #2941

Geography can create non-4326 geography but geography typmod won't allow it ​https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/2941

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Can you provided a list of SRIDs in which PostGIS Geography supports if it is not limited to WGS 1984. In addition, if PostGIS Geography supports other SRIDs other than 4326, can the documentation be updated to reflect so?

[robe]

It's any longlat based projections defined in your spatial_ref_sys.

I'll update the docs to reflect -- see my blog post

​http://www.bostongis.com/blog/index.php?/archives/266-geography-type-is-not-limited-to-earth.html

[robe]

In 15983:

try to modernize the geography section a bit.
References #3902

[pramsey]

postgis24=# select 'SRID=4269;POINT(-123 34)'::geography;
                     geography                      
----------------------------------------------------
 0101000020AD1000000000000000C05EC00000000000004140
(1 row)

postgis24=# select 'SRID=4267;POINT(-123 34)'::geography;
                     geography                      
----------------------------------------------------
 0101000020AB1000000000000000C05EC00000000000004140
(1 row)

postgis24=# select 'SRID=26910;POINT(-123 34)'::geography;
ERROR:  Only lon/lat coordinate systems are supported in geography.
LINE 1: select 'SRID=26910;POINT(-123 34)'::geography;

[robe]

In 15988:

Add Paul Ramsey's example, get rid of more obsolete statements about 4326 is only srid supported for geography
References #3902 for PostGIS 2.5.0

[robe]

In 15990:

More cleanup. Get rid of word "new" in reference to geography type, it's not so new anymore
Minor grammar and formatting corrections.
References #3902 for PostGIS 2.5.0

[robe]

In 15991:

Backport geography changes to PostGIS 2.4.1
Closes #3902
Changed Changed to Enhanced for tiger zcta
References #3815 for PostGIS 2.4.1

[just7460]

Thanks for updating the documentation! This is a great help for us!

Do you have a link for the 2.4.1 changes? I can't seem to find your changes when I look at the 2.4.1 doc, but it shows up for 2.5.

Thanks again! Justin

[robe]

In 15992:

Fix xml parse error in docs
References #3902 for PostGIS 2.4.1

[robe]

In 15993:

Fix xml parse error in docs
References #3902 for PostGIS 2.5.0

[robe]

Sorry about that, I had an xml unbalanced tab so the docs build job failed. Should show up here: in about an hour or less

​http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.4/using_postgis_dbmanagement.html#PostGIS_Geography