[postgis-users] Computing a centroid on GEOGRAPHY objects

[Paul Ramsey]

If the points of the features are truly spread out across the world,
the centroid is pretty meaningless. If the points of any given feature
are relatively compact, then using an approach with _ST_BestSRID would
work (see the def'n of ST_Buffer(Geography) for an example).

P.

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:34:53PM +0100, Ed Linde wrote:
>
>> I know there is a centroid computation function in Postgis, but it seems to
>> only work on a geometry type.
>> The lat/long coordinates are spread all across the globe and hence I cannot
>> convert it to local UTM formats because there is a discrepancy when going
>> across different zones!
>
> I wonder how the centroid of points spread across the globe would look like.
> Jules ?
>
> --strk;
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