Hi Michael,<br>
              Thank you for your reply.<br>
Here are  results of the queries you mentioned.<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">AsText() and AsEWKT() <br>
</span>select AsEWKT(the_geom) from la_blocks where stfid='220750501002995';<br>
                                                                          
asewkt   <br>
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 MULTIPOLYGON(((-89.826276 29.643064,-89.826879
29.642835,-89.827639 29.642766,-89.828321 29.642949,-89.828609
29.642858,-89.828635 29.641735,-89.82895 29.6413,-89.829579
29.641323,-89.830628 29.641598,-89.831703 29.642079,-89.832384
29.642559,-89.833171 29.643315,-89.833617 29.643452,-89.834429
29.643407,-89.835033 29.643819,-89.835164 29.644093,-89.835111
29.644414,-89.835033 29.644529,-89.834666 29.644712,-89.834456
29.644941,-89.834351 29.645262,-89.834378 29.645743,-89.834719
29.646178,-89.834876 29.646338,-89.834928 29.646636,-89.834719
29.646888,-89.834352 29.646957,-89.833985 29.646865,-89.833617
29.646636,-89.832936 29.646064,-89.832595 29.645835,-89.832018
29.64572,-89.831389 29.64572,-89.830655 29.646064,-89.829763
29.646156,-89.828924 29.645995,-89.828269 29.645583,-89.82743
29.64485,-89.827141 29.644415,-89.826931 29.643911,-89.826722
29.64382,-89.826617 29.643889,-89.826355 29.644324,-89.826302
29.64437,-89.826224 29.644507,-89.826014 29.644622,-89.825725
29.644622,-89.825647 29.644232,-89.825883 29.643751,-89.826066
29.643454,-89.826197 29.643316,-89.826276 29.643064),(-89.831179
29.643567,-89.830287 29.643682,-89.829946 29.643911,-89.82992
29.644026,-89.830182 29.644186,-89.831231 29.644735,-89.831467
29.644644,-89.831546 29.644438,-89.831546 29.64398,-89.831441
29.643773,-89.831179 29.643567)))<br>
(1 row)<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
(FOR stfid </span></span>220750501002999,It gave a very big set of co-ordinates)<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">SELECT stfid, npoints(the_geom), nrings(the_geom) FROM la_blocks ORDER BY nrings DESC LIMIT 10;</span><br style="font-weight: bold;">
      stfid      | npoints | nrings<br>
-----------------+---------+--------<br>
 220750501002999 |   64266 |   2507<br>
 220750501002103 |   60919 |   2487<br>
 220750508001999 |   19019 |    821<br>
 220750508001000 |   16480 |    813<br>
 220750501002998 |   45421 |    731<br>
 221090013004990 |   34863 |    354<br>
 221090011003999 |   17073 |    337<br>
 221090012024005 |   13503 |    290<br>
 220870301012999 |   44032 |    286<br>
 220750501002065 |   12727 |    248<br>
(10 rows)<br>
<br>
These are the points where the query taking too much time to execute.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">SELECT getbbox(the_geom) FROM la_blocks WHERE stfid = '220750501002999';<br>
</span>                                 
getbbox<br>
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 BOX(-89.5361709594727 28.8551273345947,-88.8792343139648 29.6479110717773)<br>
(1 row)<br>
<br>
I think, the number of rings is the problem<br>
Thanks alot,<br>
have a nice day<br>
vamsee movva<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br>
</span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Fuhr</b> <<a href="mailto:mike@fuhr.org">mike@fuhr.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:47:50AM -0600, vamsee movva wrote:<br>> > What can you tell us about the geometries in la_damage ?<br>><br>> Honestly i don't have any idea about geometries and how to find geometries.
<br>> the geometry in la_blocks for stfid = 220750501002999?<br>> I don't know how to see the geometry of the_geom column.<br><br>You can see a geometry's textual representation with functions like<br>AsText() and AsEWKT() or you could see graphical output with various
<br>visualization tools.<br><br>> > What's the output of the following query?<br>><br>> SELECT summary(the_geom) FROM la_blocks WHERE stfid = '220750501002999';<br>> please find the attached file "stfid.txt
"<br><br>Ouch:<br><br>> MultiPolygon[B] with 1 elements<br>>   Polygon[] with 2507 rings<br><br>I count 64266 points altogether.  Does this geometry's row in<br>la_blocks contain other columns that explain what it is?  Is this
<br>geometry's size an anomaly?  The following queries should show<br>the geometries with the most rings and points:<br><br>SELECT stid, npoints(the_geom), nrings(the_geom)<br>FROM la_blocks<br>ORDER BY nrings DESC<br>LIMIT 10;
<br><br>SELECT stid, npoints(the_geom), nrings(the_geom)<br>FROM la_blocks<br>ORDER BY npoints DESC<br>LIMIT 10;<br><br>Examining the geometry's bounding box might also be revealing:<br><br>SELECT getbbox(the_geom)<br>FROM la_blocks
<br>WHERE stfid = '220750501002999';<br><br>I'm wondering if this geometry is representative of the rest of the<br>data or if it's an outlier and possibly bogus.<br><br>--<br>Michael Fuhr<br>_______________________________________________
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