[postgis-users] Creating trajectory/lines from millions of points[PostGIS]

Oliver Burgfeld oliver.burgfeld at gmail.com
Tue Nov 25 09:10:53 PST 2014


Ops, perfectly working now, thank you!


Am Dienstag, 25. November 2014 17:56:53 UTC+1 schrieb Brent Wood:
>
> My fault, you also need to select these in the final select, try:
>
> WITH multis AS (
>                 SELECT id, status,* min(timestamp) as time_start, 
> max(timestamp) as time_end, *ST_MakeLine( point_geom ORDER BY timestamp) AS 
> mylines
>                 FROM your_table
> GROUP BY id, status
> )
>  
> SELECT id, status,* time_start, time_end*, (ST_Dump(mylines)).geom
>
> Cheers,
>
>   Brent
>
>   ------------------------------
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 26, 2014 5:48 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [postgis-users] Creating trajectory/lines from millions of 
> points[PostGIS]
>  
> I also tried that and it works but it does not give me those two columns 
> in my new table. There are only id and status inside.
>
>  
> Am Dienstag, 25. November 2014 17:39:21 UTC+1 schrieb Brent Wood:
>
> as in my previous reply, I figured that would be useful...
> WITH multis AS (
>                 SELECT id, status,* min(timestamp) as time_start, 
> max(timestamp) as time_end, *ST_MakeLine( point_geom ORDER BY timestamp) AS 
> mylines
>                 FROM your_table
> GROUP BY id, status
> )
>  
> SELECT id, status, (ST_Dump(mylines)).geom
> FROM multisBrent Wood
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Oliver Burgfeld <oliver.... at gmail.com>
> *To:* postgi... at googlegroups.com 
> *Cc:* pcr... at pcreso.com; postgi... at lists.osgeo.org; 
> postgi... at lists.osgeo.org; remi... at gmail.com 
>
>
>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 26, 2014 5:10 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [postgis-users] Creating trajectory/lines from millions of 
> points[PostGIS]
>  
> Thank you and all the others who were answering :)
>
> I tried that and it seems that its working. Nevertheless I only tried it 
> with a small part of my data (round about 1 million rows out of ~500 
> million) but if it's working now, it should also work with the whole 
> dataset.
>
> Is there a way to also include the time_field into the result? I created a 
> new table with this statement given but there are only two columns 
> (vehicleid and status) included. 
> I know thats logical because I only included those two into my select 
> clause but it would be great to not only order by time but also have a time 
> column in my table.
>
> For example:
>
> vehicleid | status | time_start | time_end
>
>
> I hope its understandable and not to mixed up...
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Am Dienstag, 25. November 2014 16:06:33 UTC+1 schrieb Rémi Cura:
>
> Hey, a small correction :
> ST_MakeLine is already an aggregate, and you may want to enforce the order 
> inside the aggregate (see at the end).
> Another interesting point is the possiblity to pu somehting in the M value 
> of each point of the line, for instance the time.
> This comes very handy when you want to extrat parts of the lines.
>
>
> So for instance for the first proposition :
>
> WITH multis AS (
>                 SELECT id, status,* ST_MakeLine( point_**geom ORDER BY 
> time_field) *AS mylines
>                 FROM your_table
> GROUP BY id, status
> )
>  
> SELECT id, status, (ST_Dump(mylines)).geom
> FROM multis
>
> Cheers,
> Rémi-c
>
>
> 2014-11-25 9:53 GMT+01:00 Brent Wood <pcr... at pcreso.com>:
>
> or automatically get the start & end times for each trackline in the 
> record like this:
>
> WITH multis AS (
>                 SELECT id, min(time_field) AS time_start, max(time_field) 
> as time_end, status, ST_MakeLine(array_agg(point_ geom )) AS mylines
>                 FROM your_table
> GROUP BY id, status
> ORDER BY time_field
> )
>  
> SELECT id, status, (ST_Dump(mylines)).geom
> FROM multis;
>
>
> Cheers,
>    Brent Wood
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Hugues François <hugues.... at irstea.fr>
> *To:* PostGIS Users Discussion <postgi... at lists.osgeo.org > 
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 25, 2014 8:13 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [postgis-users] Creating trajectory/lines from millions of 
> points[PostGIS]
>  
> Hello,
>  
> In your case I would have try to make multilines for each taxi and each 
> status (i.e. two multi by taxi) and then dump them into  simple 
> linestrings. All in a query that may look like this assuming you have a 
> taxi id field:
>  
> WITH multis AS (
>                 SELECT id, status, ST_MakeLine(array_agg(point_ geom )) AS 
> mylines
>                 FROM your_table
> GROUP BY id, status
> ORDER BY time_field
> )
>  
> SELECT id, status, (ST_Dump(mylines)).geom
> FROM multis
>  
> You may want to add a time reference to your lines. To do this, you can 
> add an extraction from your timestamp field (e.g. day or month) and add it 
> into the WITH and to the group by clause.
>  
> Hugues.
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> *De :* postgis-us... at lists. osgeo.org [mailto:postgis-us...@ 
> lists.osgeo.org] *De la part de* Oliver Burgfeld
> *Envoyé :* mardi 25 novembre 2014 07:09
> *À :* postgi... at lists.osgeo.org
> *Objet :* [postgis-users] Creating trajectory/lines from millions of 
> points[PostGIS]
>  
>
>
> Hi,
> I have millions of points in a PostGIS database containing taxi gps 
> tracks. Now I want to create lines from these points by vehicleid and 
> ordered by timestamp. But, and that's my problem right now, at first I want 
> to include every column of my point table into the "line table" and I also 
> need to intersect those lines at specific points.
> I have one column representing the "taxi_is_occupied" status with 0 or 1. 
> What I want now is to create lines which are divided every time this 
> status changes. In the end I need lines which show the path of every taxi 
> over time, divided every time the status of the car changes so that I can 
> query all lines where the taxi is occupied, for example.
> What do I have to use therefore? I know that there is the ST_MakeLines 
> tool existing in PostGIS, but as I am a new PostGIS user... I do not know 
> exactly how to use it to get the results I need. 
>  
> Thanks a lot
>
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