{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/399#issuecomment-1030807433", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/399", "id": 1030807433, "node_id": "IC_kwDOCGYnMM49cN-J", "user": {"value": 6025893, "label": "chris48s"}, "created_at": "2022-02-06T10:54:09Z", "updated_at": "2022-02-06T10:54:09Z", "author_association": "NONE", "body": "> Interesting that some accept an SRID and others do not - presumably GeomFromGeoJSON() always uses SRID=4326?\r\n\r\nThe ewtk/ewkb ones don't accept an SRID is because ewkt encodes the SRID in the string, so you would do this with a wkt string:\r\n\r\n`GeomFromText('POINT(529090 179645)', 27700)`\r\n\r\nbut for ewkt it would be\r\n\r\n`GeomFromEWKT('SRID=27700;POINT(529090 179645)')`\r\n\r\nThe specs for KML and GeoJSON specify a Coordinate Reference System for the format\r\n\r\n- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7946#section-4\r\n- https://docs.opengeospatial.org/is/12-007r2/12-007r2.html#1274\r\n\r\nGML can specify the SRID in the XML at feature level e.g:\r\n\r\n```\r\n<gml:Point srsName=\"EPSG:27700\">\r\n  <gml:coordinates>529090, 179645</gml:coordinates>\r\n</gml:Point>\r\n```\r\n\r\nThere's a few more obscure formats in there, but broadly I think it is safe to assume an SRID param exists on the function for cases where the SRID is not implied by or specified in the input format.", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 1124731464, "label": "Make it easier to insert geometries, with documentation and maybe code"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}