Depending on what you would like to do with the co-ordinates, you
should check out PostGIS in the contrib modules - You can store all
kinds of geographical data with indexes for efficient queries:

http://postgis.refractions.net

I'm planning on using it, but haven't started playing yet so can't
give you specific advice - Sorry!


On 12/7/05, Aarni Ruuhimäki <aarni@kymi.com> wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> Anyone worked with coordinates ? What would be a good practise and format to
> store coordinates data ? Data type ? Degrees and minutes as integers and
> seconds as float ? Maybe a composite ?
>
> TIA,
>
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