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Python is an open source interpreted programming language used in many GIS programs.

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update one shapefile attribute table with values from another dbf table

Sorry for not answering your question, but I would definitely do this in db-environment instead. Especially if it is a lot of data, then that will probably be a lot faster. If you for instance load t …
Nicklas Avén's user avatar
4 votes

Nearest neighbor between point layer and line layer?

If I understand you right the functionality you are asking for is built in PostGIS. To get a point projected on a line you can use ST_Closestpoint (on PostGIS 1.5) Some hints about how to use it yo …
Nicklas Avén's user avatar
2 votes

Finding polygons crossed by line using OGR?

think you are on the wrong trac ;) Both because you are missing to check if the edge between the vertexpoints intersects the polygon and because you are moving the iteration between the vertex points to python
Nicklas Avén's user avatar
2 votes

How to bring polygons closer to a point?

making the polygons bigger should give the desired effect. http://postgis.net/docs/manual-1.5/ST_Scale.html /Nicklas
Nicklas Avén's user avatar
8 votes

How to use PostGIS to handle complex geoprocessing workflows?

I really like using PostGIS for geoprocessing purposes. My two main resons is: 1) It is often very much faster to do complex tasks in the database because you get the help of the query planner to d …
Nicklas Avén's user avatar
3 votes

Calculate centroid of a point cluster

I am not sure I really understand what you are doing. How can a point cluster be a collection of linestrings? , but .. Remember you are using a spatial database, why not use the functionality in PostG …
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