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Vinko,<br>
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Do you remember the subject line of that thread?<br>
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I am going thru the archives now but I just joined the list yesterday
so I am not familiar with that thread.<br>
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-- Hugh W. O'Brien<br>
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Vinko Vrsalovic wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:06:32PM -0600, Hugh W. O'Brien wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I probably should have posted that I am a noob to not only using PostGIS
but also using a spatial engine in general. So I am not familiar with
the terms UTM, state place. etc... So, how would one go about
projecting their longitude/latitude data into UTM for example. Would
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To project the data you have the transform() PostGIS function.
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<pre wrap="">doing so convert my degrees long/lat to actual distance units such that
the standard bounding box example in the FAQ would be applicable?
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Yes.
Remember that your data must have SRID's set to use the transform
function. More info in the archives (the topic was discussed not long
ago) and in the docs.
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