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Find points of interest near a path?

Imagine a table of points of interest along with lat/long. The user identifies two of these points. I want to do the following: Calculate a great-circle path between these points Find all POIs that ...
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Is there a way to get ST_ClosestPoint for Geography type?

Using PostGIS 2.0.0 I'd like to find the point on a LINESTRING that is closest to a given point. The LINESTRING represents a great circle line (ie. geography type). ST_ClosestPoint appears to do ...