Bottom line: The principal investigator needs to keep in mind that a Grant Proposal is as much a marketing document as an intellectual document. You will benefit by consulting a few key individuals at an early stage in the planning of the proposal. The Sponsorâs Program Officer (PO). Regardless of the funding agency, it is advisable (and sometimes required) to contact the program officer for the purposes of introducing yourself and your work.
spatial data. Spatial data, also known as geospatial data, is information about a physical object that can be represented by numerical values in a geographic coordinate system.
Applies To: SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2016 Preview. The geography spatial data type, geography, is implemented as a .NET common language runtime (CLR) data type in SQL Server. This type represents data in a round-earth coordinate system.The SQL Server geography data type stores ellipsoidal (round-earth) data, such as GPS latitude and longitude coordinates.SQL Server supports a set of methods for the geography spatial data type.he following examples show how to add and query geography data. The first example creates a table with an identity column and a geography column, GeogCol1. A third column renders the geography column into its Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Text (WKT) representation, and uses the STAsText() method.