Geographic information systems (GIS) play a critical role in emergency response planning and risk assessment. One of the key challenges in this field is determining whether a specific location falls within an area of interest. This capability is especially valuable for property and casualty (P&C) insurers, who need to assess their insured property exposure when severe weather events such as tornadoes occur.
A tornado warning is typically defined as a polygon outlining the affected region. Insurers and emergency responders must determine whether specific homes, represented by latitude and longitude coordinates, fall within this polygon. SQL Server provides spatial functions that