[postgis-users] Is PostGIS for me?

[Ben Madin]

Vernon,

On 30/05/2009, at 5:30 AM, Vernon wrote:

> After having been used PostgreSQL for some years, I just learn the  
> PostGID
> lately. Currently, I need to solve a street address and distance  
> problem
> which is to find out the distance between to given street address  
> (or well
> know location as such the city hall in a city) or to find out  
> whether a
> street address is inside of a given distance from another street  
> address.
> I am wondering whether PostGIS can help me to solve the problem or  
> not.


Yes - you might also want to look at / need PgRouting. But you will  
need data sets for the streets.

cheers

Ben



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