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PostGIS - ST_Collect but only include POLYGONs not POINTs?

In PostGSI, is there anyway to turn a GEOMETRYCOLLECTION into a MULTIPOLYGON by dropping all non-POLYGONs/non-MULTIPOLYGONs? I'm doing a query that cuts a bunch of geometries (using ST_Intersection) ...
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PostGIS query vs QGIS filter

I have a PostGIS dataset with around 3 million shapes. I only need to view about 1,500 of these shapes at any given time, but the shapes I need to see depends on which feature is selected in a ...
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How to speed up space partitioning in postgis?

I've a bunch of overlapping polygons and I'm trying to partition the space to avoid having overlapping ones. I think my problem is fairly simple. Using some ESRI product and ...
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Looking for fastest solution for Point in Polygon analysis of 200 million points

Apologies for asking a question that has been asked before -- I've read through answers, and I'm left wondering how to implement the recommendations. I've never used SQL, Python, C, and have only ...
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Fastest way to remove matched points

Hoping someone can see a faster way of doing this, because at the moment I'm averaging 9 hours per run for what I'm trying to do and well basically getting my behind chewed off by the boss :-) The ...
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Speed up pgRouting point_to_id using new <-> operator in PostGIS 2.0.0

The point_to_id function, which assigns a node id to a point based on existing nodes and tolerance, is using a query as follows: SELECT id, the_geom FROM vertices_tmp WHERE ...
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Enhance performance of a join query for mapnik using postgis

I use mapnik to render map with datasources from a postgis database. One query is a join on two table, one with a geometry (a polygon) and the other one with some fields I want to use for rendering. ...
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How to fix performance problem in PostGIS ST_Intersects?

I'm a newbie in postgis and I have a problem in query performance. This my query: SELECT DISTINCT ON (userid) userid ,ST_AsText(position), timestamp FROM table1 WHERE ST_Intersects ( ...
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How to efficiently find points within an elliptical area?

Using PostGIS 2.0.0 I need to filter the results of a function, which returns many POINTs, to find the ones that lie within an elliptical area defined by two points and a distance (all parameters ...
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Performance Gain Through GIST Index for Point in Polygon Query

I have two tables: locations(id,region_id,the_geom) and regions(id,the_geom). For each location point I want to determine the region it is located in: UPDATE locations SET region_id = (SELECT id ...
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Qgis is slow with complex 'postgis query' layer. How to speed up?

I have a postgis layer in Qgis that is a result of a complex query. Every screen update, Qgis runs the Query again and that's slow. Any suggestion on how to speed up? EDIT - Here is the query: ...
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ST_Intersection slow query

I am trying to perform an intersection between two layers: Polyline layer representing some roads (~5500 rows) Polygon layer representing irregularly shaped buffers around various points of interest ...
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Speeding up OpenStreetMap PostGIS querying

I have OpenStreetMap data for the Netherlands loaded into a PostGIS database (PostgreSQL 8.3 / PostGIS 1.3.3) using the osmosis schema. This means all tags are stored in a hstore field. In addition to ...
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Optimizing osm2pgsql imports for OSM data

I'm currently building an instance on EC2 on which to import the entire Planet.osm snapshot of the whole Earth's worth of data for some projects we're working on. I've spun up a large Ubuntu x64 ...
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Postgres/PostGIS Spatial Query Performance Problem

I have a query in Postgres/PostGIS that I am a bit confused about. The spatial intersection happens very fast, ~ 2 seconds for 10,000, but the update takes > 15 seconds for the same number of points. ...