Questions tagged [postgis]
PostGIS is an extension for the PostgreSQL object-relational database that adds support for geographic objects.
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Spatial clustering with PostGIS?
I'm looking for spatial clustering algorithm for using it within PostGIS-enabled database for point features. I'm going to write plpgsql function that takes distance between points within the same ...
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What are the pros and cons of PostGIS geography and geometry types?
My company uses geometry (the_geom) data type for storing geospatial data.
I've recently been acquainted to the concept of geography (the_geog) data type which, as I understand it, stores the SRID ...
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Getting coordinates from geometry in PostGIS?
This line:
SELECT geom FROM myLayer.geom
will return a hex value.
How would I get decimal values, which is a human-readable coordination?
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Getting started with PostGIS?
I have been reading a lot about PostGIS, but I am struggling to find a good beginner's guide.
Which tutorials/books do you recommend?
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Creating regular polygon grid in PostGIS
How to create, on the shape of a polygon, a regular grid of polygons/squares of an given size, in PostGIS?
I have thought about a function like Creating regular point grid inside polygon in PostGIS ...
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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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Choosing SRID and what is its meaning? [closed]
I'm new to GIS, in PostGIS, and I'm struggling with the SRID concept.
How do you choose a SRID for a database column? This is making me crazy. Why do I need to choose a SRID? What's its meaning?
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Creating Vector Polygons with rendering performance like GISCloud?
I have been looking for a solid solution which would allow me to create a web map and overlay vector polygons without taking forever to load such data with the goal of allowing me to make each polygon ...
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Inserting point into PostGIS?
I have created one table in my PostGIS nut I cannot insert point.
What is wrong with my query?
CREATE TABLE app (
p_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY
);
SELECT AddGeometryColumn('app','the_geom','4326','...
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Changing SRID of existing 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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What is the purpose of PostGIS on PostgreSQL?
PostgreSQL already supports spatial data types, operators and indexing.
What does PostGIS provide exactly that made it necessary to exist as an extension to PostgreSQL?
Why don't we all just use ...
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Making spatial view in PostGIS and adding it as layer in QGIS?
In PostGIS 2.0, I am seeking an efficient way to create a spatially enabled view that is viewable in QGIS.
I followed the context of Part 2 of @Mike Toews answer to How to create a table from ...
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How can I get a shapefile from a postgis query?
My data is in a PostGIS database. I would like to generate a shapefile from a query. How can I do that?
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SQL query to have a complete geojson feature from PostGIS?
I would like to get a geojson feature with properties from PostGIS. I have found an example to have a feature collection but I can't make it works for just a feature.
SELECT row_to_json(fc)
FROM ( ...
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Selecting features that do NOT intersect in PostGIS
Using PostGIS, I just want to select points that fall outside of polygons. Ultimately this is the inverse of the ST_Intersects, as far as I can see it.
Example: I have a taxlot layer and a address ...
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Meaning of Simplify's tolerance parameter
The standard parameters of Douglas-Peucker's simplify algorithm are geometry and tolerance (e.g ST_Simplify in PostGIS). What's the meaning of the tolerance parameter? I know that the bigger the value,...
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Joining lots of small polygons to form larger polygon using PostGIS?
I have the following layer using SRID 27700 in postgis:
It's every administrative region in the UK, and (as you can see from the colour grouping) each of them has a text field specifying the county ...
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Tuning PostGIS for production environments?
What PostGIS documentation have you come across that has been helpful when tuning PostGIS for a production environment?
I would like to get together with my DBA to setup a Postgresql/PostGIS ...
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Reprojecting all geometries in PostGIS table?
I created a spatial table with SRID:4326. Now I want to change total projection to SRID:32644 into a new table. The old table should remain unchanged.
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Calculating average width of polygon? [closed]
I'm interested in examining the average width of a polygon that represents the road surface. I also have the road centerline as a vector (which is sometimes not exactly in the center). In this example,...
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Adding shapefiles to PostGIS database
I was able to create a Postgresql database and then I executed,
createlang plpgsql geospecies
psql -d geospecies -f postgis.sql
psql -d geospecies -f spatial_ref_sys.sql
So now can I directly import ...
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How do I check which version of GDAL I have and how many?
I have installed in my computer the following software:
PosgresSQL 9.3.2.3
PostGIS 2.1.1.1
QGIS 2.0.1 Dufour (this one installed through the OSGeo4w package)
QGIS 1.7.0 Wroclaw
As far as I know all ...
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Curved point-to-point "route maps"
I have recently been looking at airlines web pages that display their routes departing a certain city to all other cities they service. I would like to be able to create similar curved routes between ...
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Fixing non-noded intersection problem using PostGIS
I'm using a PL/R function and PostGIS to generate voronoi polygons around a set of points. The function that I am using is defined here. When I use this function on a particular dataset I get the ...
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How to insert a GeoJSON polygon into a PostGIS table?
I need to insert a polygon from GeoJSON to my PostGIS table. This is how the SQL query looks like.
INSERT INTO tablename (name, polygon)
VALUES (
'Name',
ST_GeomFromGeoJSON(
'{
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How to convert/typecast from Polygon to Multipolygon in PostGIS?
Is there any way to typecast Polygons to Multipolygon type?
For example, I have created a circle using ST_Buffer() on a point. The return type of that function is of Polygon type. The problem is that ...
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Shapefile PRJ to PostGIS SRID lookup table?
I was wondering if there is such a thing as an shapefile PRJ to PostGIS SRID lookup table? Something that can translate the most standard shapefile PRJ definitions into the likely SRID.
When using ...
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Select bounding box using postGIS?
I want to create a query to select all ways and their nodes that exist within a bounding box using postGIS. The bounding box shall includes all details as osmosis "--bounding-box" command will ...
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Migrating geodatabase data into PostGIS without Esri apps?
Can you tell me how I can load geodatabase data into PostGIS without having to install Esri apps?
The solution I found online talked about using ArcGIS to convert GDB to SHP and then importing SHP ...
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Creating regular point grid inside polygon in PostGIS
How to create, inside a polygon, a regular grid of point spaced x,y in PostGIS?
Like the example:
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Connecting to PostGIS database from ArcMap for display and query without ArcSDE?
How can I connect to a PostGIS database from ArcMap using ArcGIS Desktop 9.3 and later?
I would like to be able to perform spatially enabled queries and receive the results back (e.g. spatial and non-...
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Creating geometry from lat/lon in table using PostGIS?
I have a table with over 800,000 records including a lat and long column. The data source did not create geometries, so I was looking around how to do this. I know there's ST_MakePoint(x,y,SRID) but ...
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Why does PostGIS installation not create a template_postgis?
I went this route for installation of PostgreSQL and PostGIS:
PostgreSQL using the standalone KyngChaos,
PostGIS install from KyngChaos as well...
pgAdmin3 from PostgreSQL Tools
Now when I launch ...
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Nearest neighbor between point layer and line layer? [closed]
I've asked this question several times on stackoverflow and irc between #qgis and #postgis and I also tried to code it or implement it my self in postgis with no real answer.
Using programming (most ...
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Separate polygons based on intersection using PostGIS
I have a PostGIS table of polygons where some intersect with one another. This is what I'm trying to do:
For a given polygon selected by id, give me all of the polygons that intersect. Basically, ...
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Choosing coordinate system to store geography data for celestial coordinates
I am doing an astronomy project. I want to have the information about our images stored in a spatially enabled database. This, I would think, should be a very easy special case for GIS functions ...
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Changing geometry type from Point to Multipoint within existing table in PostGIS?
Is there a PostGIS function that can change geometry type for an existing table?
We need to change from POINT to MULTIPOINT.
The table will be empty when we change the geometry type and we cannot ...
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Performing bounding box query in PostGIS?
I have a PostgreSQL table, with almost 2 million rows, with a long-lat coordinates field in the form POINT(-73.4938 33.2405).
Supposing there's a geospatial index on that field, what's the most ...
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Best GIS system for high performance web application - PostGIS vs MongoDB
I am working on a web/mobile application based on location data. Since i am already familiar with MongoDB, i found the geospatial indexing of mongo is quite suitable for my needs. As i am mainly ...
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Return all results within a 30km radius of a specific lat/long point?
I have a table with a column the_geom which contains data similar to:
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Looking for fastest solution for Point in Polygon analysis of 200 million points [closed]
I have a CSV containing 200 million observations with the following format:
id,x1,y1,x2,y2,day,color
1,"-105.4652334","39.2586939","-105.4321296","39.2236632","Monday","Black"
2,"-105.3224523","39....
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How to use PostgreSQL/PostGIS with ArcGIS for Desktop? [duplicate]
Has anyone used PostgreSQL with PostGIS successfully?
I am a semi-experienced ArcGIS user and want to build out a database and connect it to ArcCatalog.
I've scoured the internet for resources but ...
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Bulk load multiple shapefiles into PostGIS
I've got over a hundred data layers in shapefile format that I want to upload into a PostGIS database. They are all in the same projection, but represent different data layers so they do not have the ...
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PostGIS nearest points with ST_Distance, kNN
I need to obtain on each element on one table the closest point of another table. The first table contains traffic signs and the second one the Entrance Halls of the town.
The thing is that I can't ...
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What is the unit used in ST_Distance()?
I wonder what the unit is of the float being returned from ST_Distance.
In the documentation it says:
...cartesian minimum distance (based on spatial ref) between two geometries in projected units....
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PostGIS Geometry type not matching column type in QGIS
I'm trying to import some polygon shapefiles to Postgis in QGIS via SPIT. One of them can't be imported and returns this error:
ERROR: Geometry type (Polygon) does not match column type (MultiPolygon)...
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When should you NOT use a spatial index?
I am asking this because I was mainly working with Oracle but for the past year I've been doubling with PostGIS and SQLServer 2008. Most spatial functions in Oracle won't work without a spatial index ...
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What is the Difference between Geometric and Geographic columns? [duplicate]
I am a beginner in GIS and Learning PostGIS. I came across this two terms Geom and Geog, Could anyone explain in brief. What is the best to use with map data and Do all functions support both Geom and ...
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Which function for creating a POINT in PostGIS?
When defining a Point in PostGIS, when do you decide to use which of the following?
ST_SetSRID(ST_MakePoint(lon,lat),4326)
ST_SetSRID(ST_Point(long,lat),4326)
ST_SetSRID(ST_GeomFromText('POINT(lon ...
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How is ST_PointOnSurface calculated?
The PostGIS documentation states that ST_PointOnSurface returns "a POINT guaranteed to lie on the surface". It seems like this function could be trivially implemented to give results that satisfy the ...
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