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Add intersects/contains search parameters? #182

Open aazaff opened 7 years ago

aazaff commented 7 years ago

Have the intersecting state/province of each column returned as a field of the column's route.

aazaff commented 7 years ago

do you want me to make the table for you and you just add it in?

jczaplew commented 7 years ago

Columns can cross multiples states/provinces, countries, or not exist in any of the above as is the case with the Deep Sea columns. Additionally, in the future the geometry of columns could change on a regular basis, requiring us to maintain this attribute.

While it would be convenient, I feel that because we offer the data in spatial formats this functionality is not necessary. Thoughts?

aazaff commented 7 years ago

I don't mind returning the states/provinces as an array.

Why not just make it automated that when you change a column geometry it recalculates its intersection with state/provinces and geoplate?

cambro commented 7 years ago

This is an app-side problem.

aazaff commented 7 years ago

I would like to reopen this issue. I just had a request from a user for the ability to refine location by state. It's true that a user could do this on their own with GIS, but not every user is GIS savvy. Please advise.

aazaff commented 7 years ago

We have decided that a better solution would be to make the search queryable by spatial criteria, but not return that as a field.

aazaff commented 6 years ago

I changed the name of this issue, because I think what we're really asking for would be the ability to POST a geom and find the intersection columns.