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How to speed up an st_intersects() query?

I have a "huge" spatial database: 72GB, 200 millions documents with geometries (points) I have a GIST index on the geometries the database: CREATE TABLE resources ( id bigint NOT NULL, accuracy ...
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Why doesn't PostGIS use gist index when doing a ST_DUMP(ST_UNION)?

My query: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS tmp; CREATE TEMP TABLE tmp AS SELECT *, ST_BUFFER(the_geom::GEOGRAPHY, 3000)::GEOMETRY AS buffer FROM af_modis_master LIMIT 20000; CREATE INDEX idx_tmp_the_geom ON tmp ...
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Trying to combine nearby points into a polygon

We have collected millions of cell phone strength readings. I am trying to group points of the same strenght that are within a distance of each other in to a polygon. I asked on the postgis mailing ...
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How to speed up queries for raster databases?

I have a raster database in postgresql/postgis with these columns: (ID, rast, data_of_data). 'rast' is the column that has raster files in WKT format. An example query to find the DN value of a ...
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Spatial index to speed up the query

I have spatial table in PostgreSQL 9.2 / postgis 2.0 that I have to extract some information from it. But my query is hopelessly slow. How could I make use of spatial index to improve the performance ...
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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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Acquiring ArcGIS-like speed in Postgis

I have been using Postgis 2.0 for 3/4 of a year now and while I really enjoy using it, excessive query processing time has rendered it basically unusable for my use case. I tend to do heavy ...
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Create Spatial Index in PostGIS on an entire Schema

I have loaded a number of shapefiles using SPIT (QGIS plugin) to my PostGIS database. These layers did not have a Spatial Index created upon loading. I am wondering if there is a way to create a ...
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Spatial index vs two coordinates indexes

I have a table with two columns: latitude and longitude. I want to get all objects inside a "rectangular" (well, rectangular in a lat/lon coordinate metric) bounding box: min-max latitude and min-max ...
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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 ...