NHibernate.Spatial, Spatial extensions for NHibernate, allows you to connect NHibernate to a spatially enabled database and manipulate geometries in HQL or in .NET code using NetTopologySuite, providing you with a fully integrated GIS programming experience.
There is also a similar but independent effort for Java: Hibernate Spatial.
Features:
- Geometry types: Geometry columns are mapped to .NET geometry types compliant with OGCspecifications.
- Dialects: MsSqlSpatial and PostGIS are supported. SQL Server 2008 support is at early stage. The most common spatial functions are registered for use within HQL, providing compatible queries among different dialects.
- Criteria: Spatial relations functions such as Intersects, Within, Crosses, etc.
- Projections: Spatial aggregate, analysis and tranformation functions.
- Schema generation: Support for automatic creation and droping of auxiliary data objects (eg. registering of geometry columns in metadata table).
- Metadata mappings: Built-in mappings to spatial metadata through GeometryColumns and SpatialReferenceSystem classes.
Requirements:
Installation:
- Download latest sources and build. Copy the binaries to your project's libraries folder.
- In you project, add references to NHibernate.dll, NHibernate.Spatial.dll, NetTopologySuite.dll, GeoAPI.dll and to provider assembly (eg. NHibernate.Spatial.PostGis.dll).
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