Boxes and Polygons in ADQL/STC. Questions and recommendation.

[Roy Williams]

> How do I express a rect that is centered at dec=85 and that extends 10 
> deg in dec?

I'm sure some consistent definition for RECT can be made up.

My point is that I suspect 90% of region queries will, in reality, be 
RECT or CONE. We should make sure this works well in the prototypes, 
perhaps delay the more complex region implementation until these two 
work well?

Roy

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