Request for feature: support geometric types with rust-geo

[kestred]

Would it make sense to support postgreSQL's builtin geometric types using the https://github.com/georust/rust-geo crate?

It is the most used (and i.m.o. seems the most well designed) crate that exists for geo/gis in rust.

Type Correspondence

Rust Type	Postgres Type
geo::Coordinate, geo::Point	POINT
(possibly geo::LineString or geo::MultiPoint)	LINE, LSEG
geo::Bbox	BOX
geo::LineString	PATH
geo::Polygon	POLYGON

[sfackler]

Sure, sounds reasonable to me! I'd be happy to take PR adding the conversions, or I can take a crack at it when I have a chance.

[kestred]

Great. I'll implement it and create a PR.

[pka]

This could lead to some confusion. People working with geometries within PostgreSQL are using PostGIS. https://github.com/andelf/rust-postgis isn't using rust-geo geometries, because it leads to overhead for converting between different geometry implementations. There was a long discussion about that, which ended in the consensus that rust-geo needs a trait based implementation.

[rofrol]

Close issue?