Questions tagged [spatial-index]
In a database, a mechanism for optimizing access to data based on the spatial column(s) of a data table.
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PostrgreSQL/PostGIS KNN query using <-> operator in ORDER BY clause not using index
I am trying to set up a KNN query using the <-> operator in the ORDER BY clause and the query planner does not appear to be using the spatial index as expected.
I am not using bleeding edge ...
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Creating indexes with PostGIS using all CPU cores
I have to run a whole bunch of GIST index creation, on some tables containing lots of records (scale of many countries, OSM data):
CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY IF NOT EXISTS osm_footways_gist ON ...
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Creating Quadtree/Space Filling Curve Index atop GeoTiFF
I'm a complete beginner in GeoTiFF manipulation. I'd like to get some help in possible Java/Python/Scala project which performs spatial indexing (Quadtree, Space Filling Curves) atop given image(s). I ...
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PostGIS- slow spatial UPDATE queries on 50mil rows
PostgreSQL 11.8, AWS hosted RDS instance, SSD, 8GB RAM, 3.0 GHz Intel Scalable Processor. Plenty of storage space.
I'm finding running updates on a large table using spatial queries is taking a very ...
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Optimising PostGIS ST_DWithin across many tables for existence only
I have 13 tables containing MultiPolygons in the same projection (27700). I am trying to write an efficient query to get back a Boolean for:
Is one polygon in table A within X meters of any polygon in ...
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Can the QGIS spatial index be used to evaluate points contained in multiple polygons of shapefile layers using PyQGis?
I want to use the spatial index of QGIS to improve the performance in the spatial query of multiple points in multiple polygons, both are shapefiles, but has not given me good results in execution ...
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Using spatial indexes on point to polygon intersection query in SQL Server
I have a table (tab_point) with about 5 million points and another table with a few thousand polygons (tab_polyg). I need to find what points intersect with what polygon (to establish a count of ...
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ST_GEOMETRY: spatial column must appear immediately after spatial relationship function for spatial index to be used
The docs for SDE.ST_GEOMETRY have a blurb that says the following:
When are spatial indexes used with ST_Geometry?
...the spatial column must appear immediately after the
spatial relationship ...
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What is name of dataset in GEE to estimate level of urbanization for each county (district) in a country /region?
I am epidemiologist, not remote sensing expert. I am interested to find association between disease incidence /reported cases with urbanization (hypothesis " more bigger cities , more incidence&...
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Postgresql POSTGIS not using index field while having GIST index on geometry field [duplicate]
I have around 2M rows on my PostgreSQL table with GIST index on geo_point field but while I try to use ST_Distance or ST_DWithin it is not using the index instead it is doing Parallel Seq
Indexed ...
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PostGIS: Speed up intersect by filtering first
I have a table with 20 million polygons where queries take some time (with an gist index on the geometries). I thought I could speed up the queries by first filtering on an additional id (selectivity: ...
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Index accelerating complex feature queries and geometric computations?
As far as I know, the index on geospatial database only optimizes lookup of features, not computation themselves, eg, it will acceleration intersection between a large number of polygons with a small ...
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Function-based spatial index: Use sdo_geometry() constructor instead of custom function?
I have an Oracle 18c table that has XY columns, but not a SHAPE column. I've created a query on the table that dynamically generates an sdo_geometry SHAPE column.
sdo_geometry(2001, 26917, ...
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Fragmentation in multicoloum geometry data type
I have a table with place-identifier(big int) and geometry column combined together as b-tree unique index in PostgreSQL. Upon insertion of 20k records the dB table is getting fragmented around 45-50%....
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Determining area size of grid (reference grid) in ArcMap [closed]
How do I determine the area size (square kilometres) of a customised reference grid in ArcMap 10.7?
I have tried Data Driven Pages and it is not working for me. The idea is to know the area size of ...
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When NOT to create spatial index
As I realized once again connected with this answer to Joining attributes by location using QGIS, creating a spatial index can result in huge performance improvements.
However, I was wondering why ...
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Spatial indexing of GeoTIFF images (Java Library)
I have a requirement to spatially index each pixel of GeoTIFF images and store them in a scalable database. I intend to perform this in the following manner.
Divide each GeoTIFF into smaller tile ...
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Spatial Index warning from Spatial Query
I'm trying a spatial query using QGIS version 3.10 using a buffer layer and a set of species records. I wish to know how many species records fall within the buffer. When I perform the spatial query ...
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Improving PyQGIS distance matrix efficiency
I have written a custom processing tool, which I use within a large graphical model in QGIS. I am looking for a way to speed it up.
First step of this processing tool is to connect every point of one ...
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PostGIS speed up query on 9 million row polygon table
Table bl_data 9 million+ polygon rows with GIST index and the index is clustered
create index ii3 on bl_data using gist(geom);
CLUSTER ii3 ON bl_data;
I have a query that finds records with the same ...
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When to use GiST and when to use SP-GiST index?
I'm aware of the documentation for both of the indexes, but can't decide which one to use.
PostGIS documentation on these indexes
Example:
Let's say we have table data with the POINT attribute that ...
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Implement Rtree index to custom objects list
I'm trying to improve a spatial calculation, and I think the most efficient way is to add a spatial index, but I'm not sure how to do it.
In one hand I have a list of custom objects, with a geom ...
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Why does PSQL ignore spatial index in “where NOT ST_Contains”, but uses in “where ST_Contains”?
I'm creating a new table of trips in my PostgreSQL/PostGIS database, where trips are comprised of a series of individually identified points, based on where the points within each trip are. The idea ...
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Determining which QGIS layer has a spatial index?
I would like to loop over all layers within a QGIS project and determine which layer don't have a spatial index and cause QGIS to slow down.
I tried the method hasSpatialIndex() but this always ...
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PostGIS query to retrieve geometry that intersects both a bbox intersects and also matches other columns
I am relatively new to GIS, so have been searching around to try find a similar case to the one I am facing but have come up short.
Specifically I want to store multiple sets of geometry features in ...
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How to average the NDDI index for a map in GEE
In previous codes I was able to generate the NDVI average, but since NDDI is a sub-index I would like to know if anyone would be able to generate this NDDI average in GEE
https://code.earthengine....
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SQL Server how to create spatial index? ( spatial query )
I know how to do spatial query,
Shape is my geometry type column.
bbox is well know text format of a bounding box
srid = 2229, you must specify this srid in where intersect clause
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Query Geopackage using spatial index in QGIS DB manager
I would like to do spatial join in QGIS DB manager on geopackage database.
The query should look like this
select * from Soil_C_cadaster a,
(select * from Soil_C_cadaster
where forest_c is null) b
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Raster Calculator conditions in QGIS [duplicate]
I'm trying to create an index using the Sentinel Imagens at Raster Calculater (QGIS), but I don't know how to put the following conditions:
if ((B2>B3) and (B3<B4) and (B4>B11) and (B4>...
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PyQGIS how to construct QgsSpatialIndex with FlagStoreFeatureGeometries flag?
In the PyQGIS documentation for QgsSpatialIndex.nearestNeighbor (https://qgis.org/pyqgis/master/core/QgsSpatialIndex.html#qgis.core.QgsSpatialIndex.nearestNeighbor)
we see the following (!) Warning:
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High cost of geometry bitmap heap scan
I have a PostGIS database with tables osm_admin (with contains all administrative boundaries from osm data) and osm_landusages (with contains all landuse areas form osm - like forests, industrial/...
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geometry point and varchar multicolumn index in PostgreSQL
Is it possible to create a multicolumn index on a geometry point column and a varchar column? For example, say I have a geometry point column called "location_point" and a varchar column called "zip". ...
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Spatial index not used in view which union several tables
I have multiple spatial tables each of which I have created gist index, and query for each table will cost 10-200ms as shown in the following example, the spatial index can be used.
Example 1(with ...
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How to get index of specific location in IDL
I am trying to get the index of specific lat and lon in IDL.
I know how to do it in python.
tmp = tmp.sel(lat=lat_loc,lon=lon_loc,method='nearest')
But I can't find a way to do so in IDL.
Any ...
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PostGIS runs out of memory due to the use of spatial index
I am running this query on PostgreSQL.
CREATE TABLE table3 AS (SELECT
t1.id
FROM
table1 AS t1
CROSS JOIN LATERAL
(SELECT
t2.geometry AS geom_closest
FROM ...
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Speed up PostGIS raster query
I have a simple PostGIS table as follows:
\d rad;
Table "public.rad"
Column | Type | Collation | Nullable | Default ...
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Spatial index not speeding up spatialite query containing Multipoint Geometry Data?
I am querying a sqlite format geodatabase in which there is a label for each geometry shape.
Think of data as :
label = name of a district in your state
geometry: polygon which specify the ...
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Multiprocess Spatial Join with Spatial Index
I'm a newbie in implementing GIS on Python, but the lack of any GIS software at the office has forced me to learn about it.
I have a huge grid (a multipolygon) that I'm currently filling out with ...
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Spatial index for a raster column in a table in PostGIS
I have a raster table in PostGIS. When I run ST_SetValue(rast, geom , value) on it to change the pixel value at a point, it works very slowly.
Do you know how can I create spatial index for a raster ...
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Transfer indexed Oracle geoloc table to PostgreSQL using ogr2ogr
I am copying tables using ogr2ogr from Oracle to PostGIS using
ogr2ogr -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"host=<host> port=5432 user=<user> dbname=<dbname> password=<pwd>" OCI:<USERNAME&...
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Export NDVI values from chart as JSON in Google Earth Engine
After filter OLI8 for a small area
var collectionFilter = ee.ImageCollection('LANDSAT/LC08/C01/T1_RT_TOA')
.filterBounds(geometry)
.filterMetadata('CLOUD_COVER','less_than',4)
.map(app);
print(...
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GIST index not used by query optimizer on geometry field
I'm trying to add elevation curves on an OpenStreetMap tile server I'm currently building.
I created a table in PostgreSQL to store the shapes of the whole world.
Structure was defined by gdal_contour ...
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Calculate volume of space defined by multiple overlapping 3D polygons
I have thousands of 3D polygons scattered in space but they mostly overlap with many of their neighbors in big extent.
Is there any way how to compute volume they define effectively?
I would love ...
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Finding Rows Inside other Rows
So I have database with which I want to do the following:
Find out which other rows are contained within the geometry of the row in question. To keep it simple, I am finding the envelope/bbox of the ...
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Spatial Index on 100s of Millions of Records Taking Days in PostGIS? [closed]
I have a table with ~200million spatial records in it, and it is taking days to build a spatial index on the one geometry column: should this be taking so long?
The geom column is of the type ...
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PostGIS: Is it interesting to create an index on geom column and an alpha numeric field?
I would like to know if it's interesting to create an index on an other column than the geom one.
In some cases, I would like to do spatial analysis. If not, I would like to analyse only attributes.
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Creating index file in FME 2018?
Is there a transformer to create a index file for my shapefile output?
As a .qix file on QGIS.
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SP-GiST for geography type in PostGIS
This
CREATE INDEX geography_gdx ON schema.table USING GIST (geog);
works, but
CREATE INDEX geography_gdx ON schema.table USING SPGIST (geog);
gives me
[42704] ERROR: data type geography has no ...
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QgsfeatureRequest - Store result indexes
I recently posted a question. My original goal was to find a way to determine on which side of a line points are located. @xulnik answered this question with two codes. One returns a binary [0;1] ...
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Optimizing MySQL query to select all points with in a large polygon using spatial indexes
Re-posting it from stackoverflow as per their suggestion. Link to the thread in stackoverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53182385/optimizing-mysql-query-to-select-all-points-with-in-polygon-...
