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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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-...
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Chronological sort & indexing problems with QGIS Time Manager
I am trying to use QGIS Time Manager to create an animated map of property connected to polygon-geometry. The one article on animating polygons I've found on this site hasn't helped because my data is ...
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QGIS3 Creating spatial index in a standalone script as a part of output vector layer
I am making a buffer analisys in a standalone script. Is it possible to automatically during the analisys add index to the output vector layer (".qix" file)?
I tried to add after the analisys like in ...
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QGIS does not seem to make use of spatial index when using GeoPackages
I have a QGIS project with several Geopackage-Layers.
The project is quite slow in comparison to a project with shapefile or database layers.
I started QGIS together with DebugView to find out what ...
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Which approach is faster for getting all POIs from MySQL/MariaDB with PHP/Laravel [closed]
Correct me if I'm wrong.
There are three approaches to get the nearest homes, users have created in my website:
To create a table with two columns(latitude, longitude) that both of them are float ...
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Distance between point and line layers & spatial index issue
I am trying to compute on QGIS the distance from some clusters (ie points) to their closest road (ie lines); no need for all combinations, just the distance from each cluster to the closest road. To ...
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When does a QGIS .qix spatial index of a shapefile need to be re-created?
I understand the basics of spatial indexes but would like to understand when exactly a spatial index would need to be re-created or updated?
The reason I ask is because when a folder was moved to a ...
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Storing a Spatial Index in Sqlite
I would like to store an r-tree or quadtree index in a sqlite database using python.
Does anyone know if there is any code to do this?
A bit of background:
The dataset cannot be moved to another ...
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Query slowed down by gist-index on points
So I have this simple query, selecting all points in my table that are within a given polygon:
WITH my_polygon as (
SELECT ST_GeomFromEWKT('<EWKT polygon>') as geom
)
SELECT count(*)
FROM ...
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Getting the largest rectangle in the R-tree index of a PostGIS table?
Is it possible to use SQL or PL/pgsql to get the largest rectangle in the R-tree index (or other types of indices) of a table, so that it can be used as Bounding box for PostGIS table?
If possible, ...
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Geoserver ImageMosaic ignores existing datastore.properties (connect to PostGIS) and automatically generates index using shapefile
I am new to Geoserver. I am trying to publish a WMS service for a raster time series using the ImageMosaic plugin in Geoserver. I am using the sample dataset and instructions at this link
I want to ...
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indexes to optimize ST_Contains and ST_Overlaps for geoms in two tables
I'm a programmer getting into the wonderful world of GIS. I just had a fun day optimizing queries (took one from 60s to 3.4s, and another from 38s to 1.2s). Below is the last query that I can't seem ...
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Improve the speed for ST_DWithin
I need to get the outer polygon of the LSOAs within 10 miles of each postcode centroid. There are 180k LSOA polygons in table1 and 2.6 million postcode centroid points in table2.
I have created 2 ...
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Geometry distance PostGIS query with <-> operator suddenly much slower
One of my websites suddenly got much slower, and I've managed to track down the issue to a query that uses the <-> operator together with ORDER BY (2D distance between two geometries) to ...
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postgis: scaling / optimization of shortest distance between two geometries (seeking recommendations)
I have two tables in postgis:
one with 1B rows containing points (POINT, 4326)::geometry
the other, with 250k rows containing linestrings also in 4326
Both tables have a GIST index.
I am trying to ...
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Does Spatial Index make feature class faster? [closed]
Does spatial index make dataset work faster?
Are there any disadvantages in having it?
All datasets in my sde don't have a spatial index. I thought I should add it to make things faster
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how to index measurements with spatial coordinates
I am beginner with the RTree I use libspatialindex, I will want to know how I insert a polygon / point with a measurement (statistic or measurement of weather)
do I have to change the structure ?
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Speed up identify in QGIS
I have just transferred my Postgis database onto an RDS server, and there is a bit of a performance hit when using the Identify tool in QGIS (3) compared to localhost. I presume this is mostly network ...
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Most performant KNN method in postgis (<->, <<->>, st_distance)
My question is about the fastest way to order query results by approximate distance. I've seen conflicting information about this.
My data are lat/lng points stored using WGS84 (SRID 4326).
The ...
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Where do spatial indexes look for SRIDs?
I'm looking into optimizing the spatial indexes on some of our tables (stored in SQL Server 2008 R2), so I ran
exec sp_help_spatial_geometry_index
@tabname='myTable',
@indexname='...
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Spatial join by time in postgis
I have two tables in psql that I am trying to join based on certain attributes - they are very large - 17 M rows and 2.7 M rows respectively
mydb=> SELECT reltuples::bigint AS estimate FROM ...
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QgsSpatialIndex.nearestNeigbor() unexpected result
I have a Linestring layer for which I have build a QgsSpatialIndex with the following code:
my_linestrings_lyr_idx = QgsSpatialindex()
for f in my_linetraings_lyr.getFeatures():
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In PostGIS why does spatial index still matter for a table with only points?
According to this Boundless link, it turns out that in PostGIS, spatial query on table with spatial index uses two pass system: with the first pass approximates spatial relationship with bounding box.
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Creating Spatial Index for Geopackage using QGIS?
Working in QGIS 2.18.14 standalone on Windows, is there a way to create a Spatial Index for Geopackage (gpkg) layers?
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How to Drop Indexes on a Table in ArcCatalog
I am using an Oracle 11g database . The code below doesnt allow me to drop indexes on a table.
import arcpy
# Remove indexes and statistics for gis feature class delta tables
COND=r'E:/...
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Spatial index on PostGIS with ST_MakeEnvelope testing against point geometries (before vacuum full analyse)
I just updated this question as I was able to fix the problem by running a vacuum full analyse on the tables. I tested vacuum alone and vacuum analyse before which did not solve the problem. Not sure ...
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How do I decide what sort of spatial index to build for a SQL Server table with a Geometry column?
Let’s say an organization manages a lot of GIS data stored in Sql Server and leverages Esri software. To ensure that users can access the data with reasonable speed, I want to make sure the spatial ...
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Errors in creating spatial index on SDO_GEOMETRY column in Oracle 11g
I am using Oracle 11g (Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 - 64bit Production) and I have a table that has column of type SDO_GEOMETRY. I want to create a spatial index on this ...
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Adding spatial index to spatialite file in python using OGR?
I have a spatialite data set without a spatial index on the geometry column and I would like to create it.
In OGR command line I can use the following to create it (OGR Spatialite driver):
ogrinfo ...
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PostGIS: Spatial Index not being used
Below is the query I'm using :
SELECT osm_id FROM planet_osm_line where ST_DWITHIN((ST_Transform(way,4326)), st_setsrid(ST_Point(9.17193, 48.76768),4326) ,50000)
and time_cost =0.1 limit 100000;
I ...
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When I should use Rtree/KdTree vs Morton z-index and s-curves?
I was always confused by those two families (?) of indexing.
I feel that the first one goes with the "normal" data, while z-index and s-curves work the best for tiling/grid/uniformly distributed ...
