This is a little bit less of an introductory post than the last one , but there was quite a bit of discussion about our decision to split our spatial types in two---one for our planar ("flat-Earth") model and one for our ellipsoidal ("round-Earth") model...

I’ve been pretty quiet around here, and at least part of the reason is that we’ve been pretty tight-lipped about what we’ve been up to. We’ve now gone public—we’re providing support for geospatial data in our next version of SQL Server, codenamed Katmai...