Background
From the Wikipedia article, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is described as “an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies intended to improve performance in metrics such as energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.”
In my own words, LEED is a certification system that awards points for following certain environmentally-friendly practices when constructing a building. In the end, a building can be qualify for one of four different levels of certifications, based...
DbGeography Static Property
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DbGeometry Static Property
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DbGeography.DefaultSrid
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Today, I began to look into the Entity Framework June 2011 CTP which includes first class support for Spatial data types. The ADO.NET team created an abstraction layer, based on the OGC simple features specification, with a goal being to support spatial implementations from multiple vendors. As you would expect, SQL Server 2008 Spatial is supported out of the box.
For some reason, I was expecting a lot of work to be done on the client-side within their abstraction data type. I was pleasantly surprised to see EF pass the heavy lifting to the underlying data store as part of the...