Despite my relative youth, I can be a bit of a fuddy-duddy. Fighting my natural impulses, I’ve decided to give Twitter a try---at least while I’m at PDC. So, if you’re interested in tracking me down, surf the tubes over to my very own Truman Show . Or...

Hi Folks, Spatial users often want to find the object nearest a given point. This operation, usually referred to as nearest neighbor search , is remarkably common in many areas of computer science. In general, we may wish to find not only the nearest...

Hi Folks, A post on the spatial forum last week caught my attention for entirely non-spatial reasons: it made use of two functions---RADIANS() and DEGREES()---that I never knew existed. It seems rather strange that out of the innumerable (well, technically...

Hi Folks, Unfortunately, I need to correct an earlier post of mine .  I will not be speaking at PASS this year---it looks like there were some mixed signals.  If you’re looking for your spatial fix, Michael Rys will be talking about types and...