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Multiple queries in a row

I have osm data imported into PostgreSQL with osm2po tool (wich makes the data routable). Also I have imported data relationed with nodes and node_tags with osmosis tool. I need to obtain a set of ...
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Django client install postgresql/postgis on Ubuntu 12.04

Does anyone know what apt packages one should install for a postgres(8.4)/postgis(1.5) django (1.4) client on ubuntu 12.04? All recipes seem to assume that I want to install the full ...
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Quantum GIS ->ArcGIS Server configuration possible?

Is it possible to connect a Quantum GIS Desktop 1.8.0 to an ArcGIS Server 10.0 ? and of course publish services on it?. The configuration would be like this Quantum GIS-> ArcGIS Server 10.0 on ...
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How to find out what features /tags are included in an .osm or .pbf file?

I would like to load osm data into a postgis (postgresql) database. In How to load OSM data into PostGIS preserving all Tags? there has beeen a solution posted: Download the OSM files (in .osm ...
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Is there a way to start the route on pgrouting from a coordinate that is not a node?

After execute all steps from this pgRouting tutorial, now I have a map that creates and displays routes, but as the routing methods rely on parameters representing vertex Ids that was created using ...
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Join based on maximum overlap in PostGIS/PostGresQL?

I have two sets of polygons in two tables. The sets overlap each other. For each polygon in set A, I would like to get the ID of the polygon in set B that it overlaps the most. I'm using PostgreSQL ...
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3d terrain from data in postgres

I am quite new to arcgis and I would like to create a 3d terrain. Now I have a postgresSQL table containing a list of points with their geometry data and the Z value for each point. What I would ...
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How to find the nearest point from POI in PostGIS?

I have Point of Interest data in MySQL. This are the fields latitude,longitude,address,types in which I have stored the data. Now i want to import it into PostGIS Database. But does it required ...
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PostGIS Intermittent INDEX Performance

I have a table containing approximately 55 million data points ( point is a geometry with SRID 4326 ) and for my query I need to join this to an area table ( currently have ~1800 areas ) which ...
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Update database row with points that fall within polygons

All, I have a PostGIS/Postgresql DB that has two tables in it. One with point geometries and the other that represents country boundaries as polygons. I would like to add the country name that each ...
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Improve database performance for geospatial

I have a database with osm data imported with osmosis tool. I want to search for the nearest POIs from a given point. For this purpose, I perform this query: select id from nodes where ...
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Postgres/Postgis doesn't work after update

I work on OpenSUSE 12.1 and after today's upgrade (2012 NOV 14) Postgres and Postgis doesn't work. If I login to Postgres server by PgAdmin, get the message: translated from polish "ERROR: can't acces ...
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update tables data dynamically

Can u help me in creating a trigger and function so that every time i change the flag in table A the buffer distance should get changed and also its geometry field also , ie the polygon area? I have ...
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OGR to read from oracle, and then write a CSV

I need to read an Oracle (not spatial) table with OGR. I have no problem with ogrinfo. I use this command: ogrinfo -ro OCI:user/password -sql "select * from HR.EMPLOYEES" I have this kind of ...
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Why does Ogr2Ogr Postgres import fail?

I have a lot of S57 files that need to be imported to PostgresDB. The process takes over 2 hours. In order to improve performance, I have tried using PG_USE_COPY to use copy instead of DB inserts. I ...
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ArcGIS Server 10.1 and Postgres Geoprocessing Service issue

I'm hitting an error when publishing a model from ArcGIS Desktop 10.1 to ArcGIS Server 10.1. The model I want to publish uses a layer from a Postgres DB defined via a Query Layer in my MXD. The ...
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PostGresql and PostGIS courses in Canada

I have been looking for good professional courses for learning more than just the basics for PostGresql nd PostGIS. I have found a number of good courses, but they seem to all be in the US. I was ...
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How to connect to Postgres with QGIS?

Oddly, it should be simple, but I can't connect to a local PostGIS database. My installation is with Mac OS X (10.8), Postgres.app (in doc it's said to hava PostGIS included) and Quantum GIS 1.8. ...
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extracting pixel value from a table in postgresql

I have a table in postgresql that contains ID, row number, column number, pixel value and centroid of the pixel in WGS84 lat-lon system(4326). How could I extract the pixel value by giving a point in ...
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Getting ST_Difference between two different tables in postgis [closed]

One table has a series of grid squares in it, and the other has millions of voronoi polygons in it. I need to create a table that has the difference between the two of the them so that I effectively ...
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How to import shp files into postgresql with PostGIS?

I'm a new user of postgreSQL/postgis but I'm having a problem. I'm trying to import some shapefiles (which open perfectly in QGIS or ArcGIS but create an error when i import them). The problem is not ...
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What's the fastest way to search for polygons that intersect with others?

I'm querying the database for searching polygons that intersect with others, but is very slow research, wanted to increase the speed. I thought of using sphinx, solr, elastic search googled but did ...
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raster2pgsql: Strange error when creating a table

Hi GIS Stackexchange people, When I try to load a asc file into my psql setup, I get a strange error message. I have created the sql input file via raster2pgsql -s 4236 -I -C -M gis_data.asc -F ...
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Postgresql Query Plugins Not Returning Results in QGIS

I'm using the Fishnet function as described here to create a grid. If I use the following SQL to call the function to position a grid where I want it (I'm using NZGD2000 SRID = 2193) the query ...
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How to publish PostGIS Rasters in Geoserver?

What is the best solution to publish postgis rasters using Geoserver? I have spent a lot of time trying to create a Raster datasource using Image Mosaic JDBC but with no luck. Steps performed: 1. ...
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Can we create views over a raster table in Postgis2.0?

Is it possible to create PostgreSQL views over a table that contains raster data? I have succeeded in creating the view but the entry in raster_columns is not correct (all the raster info is ...
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Calculating spaces between roads from PostGIS database

Is it possible to calculate the spaces between the roads using a select statement in a PostGIS/PostGre Database? I tried using some combinations of the predefined functions as ST_Intersects & ...
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postgis : is the operator <-> works for Geography also?

With recent postgres//postgis version, you can now use the operator <-> to find nearest rows to a point : Indexed Nearest Neighbour Search in PostGIS Correct me if I'm wrong, but according ...
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Parse error while inserting values into polygon feature

I created a polygon as follows create table boundary (id int, name text); table created; select AddGeometryColumn ('',boundary', 'latlon' 4326,'POLYGON', 2); geometry column added; then i'm ...
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raster2pgsql part of PostGIS?

Hi GIS Stackoverflow people, I wanted to use the PostGIS functionality [raster2pgsql][1], but I had to discover that the Python function was not installed with my PostGIS installation. Do you know ...
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How to install PostGIS 1.5 on Mac OS 10.5?

I am running PostgreSQL 9.0 on Mac OS 10.5. I've installed postgis-pg90-1.5.3-1-osx through "Stack Builder" but still don't see postgis in my list of databases when I open PgAdmin. When I open my Qgis ...
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Best design for Open Source Python / PostGIS prototype

I am writing a data intensive web application that is delivered through apache. My question is about how to best arrange processing given that there are multiple options. I have at my disposal ...
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How to select segment of linestring using PostGIS?

i have PostgreSQL+PostGIS. I have a linestring: "LINESTRING(60.7014631515719 56.8441322356241,60.7023117507097 56.8445673405349,60.702948200063 56.8447993944193,60.703902874093 ...
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What is the fastest way to identify the two nearest linestrings using PostGIS?

I want to be able to identify the closest roads to two points that are generated through geocoding (a start and end address). The points will likely be near a linestring. Two approaches that I have ...
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How to view error feedback in qgis when testing connection to postgres database?

Using qgis 1.8 on Ubuntu 10.04 with Postgres 8.4.13 I am creating a new (and my first) Postgresql connection in qgis. I can connect to the user and the db using the pgsql client. ...
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How to populate data from postgresql using dynamic php\html listing

In the form I created, I need two fields to be dynamically populated from the database while the other fields will be manually entered and push to the database. I have written a script that is able ...
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How to create a network with all the track points

I have created a sample network through the use of gps visualizer. Than I used the ogr2ogr function to import this data in my database. Now I have a table which holds all the track points of these ...
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Postgis 2.0 - public.geometry_columns view does not contain correct info for views

We have recently updated our database to Postgis 2.0. In our system we used to create views for tables containing a geometry column. After creating the view we also manually updated the ...
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How to view a 155 MB raster stored in PostGIS?

I am using the following command to load a raster into a postgres database: raster2pgsql -I -C -e -Y -F -s 3086 -I -C -M myraster.tif myraster -F -t 30x30 | psql -U postgres -d database -h localhost ...
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Finding the Geometry within which a Point falls

I have the following query, which takes on average about 4 seconds. How might one improve the query such that the same response comes back faster? SELECT * FROM geometries g ORDER BY ...
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How to split OSM roads into individual segments at intersections?

I want to create a road-network for use with pgRouting using OpenStreetMap data. I loaded a shapefile from GeoFabrik into a Postgres table (with PostGIS enabled). However, one problem I had was that ...
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How to specify gdal_contour output format as postgresql table?

I want to generate contours with gdal_contour command. It generates an output as shapefile by default. I want this utility to output a postgresql (postgis) table. The documentation says there is a -f ...
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How to change the SRID of exisisting data in PostGIS?

While importing my shapefile data to PostGIS, I did not select the proper Projection. How do I now change the SRID of the data, without transforming the Coordinates?
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Qgis Plugin development with postgres data

can someone help me with initial developing on qgis plugin that displays postgres data table on a QTTableView or QTTableWidget? So far: I can connect to database using psycopg2 or using ...
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How can I transfer data from one PostGIS database to another?

I have quite a bit of GIS data in a old PostGIS Database (version "1.1.6") and I need to transfer it to another PostGIS Database ("POSTGIS="1.5.3"). I tried creating a backup and restoring that on ...
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How to install shp2pgsql-gui on Mac OSX Snow Leopard?

I am getting started with PostGIS. I am trying to understand how to install the plugin shp2pgsql-gui under Mac. Right now my 'Plugins' tab in pgAdminIII is blank... Thanks!
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How do I format SQL queries for use in Arcpy?

I have to make an SQL query on a column having not adequat name "type_borne_id", I couldn't make SQL queries using arcpy.Select_analysis neither selectbyattribute, but when I use select_analysis ...
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Problem with Pgrouting 1.5

Hi all and thanks in advance. I have Postgis 2.0.1 and PgRouting latest version. I'm using osm2pgrouting to import OpenStreetMap data everything goes ok the trouble is that I always get source and ...
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I've converted a kml to shp and want to import it to pgsql database, but no geometry column [closed]

As the title explains, I have a shapefile whose attribute table has no geometry column specifying the location of points. Rendered in QGIS, it looks fine, so the geometry data is obviously there. ...
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Database has duplicate values after running pgrouting

I am a newbie with postgresql and sql statements so maybe it is a trivial question, I'm sorry for that. I am working on a postgis database and try to use the pgrouting function. My goal is to store ...

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